For the song "Waf" of his last album, "Aimée", Julien Doré has involved his two dogs, Jean-Marc and Simone.
Their barks are integrated with the languid rhythm of the song, one of the singer's favorites on this record.
And beware, the two animals do not have the same voice at all.
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These are two rather special guests that Julien Doré wanted to see appear in his last album,
Aimée
: Jean-Marc and Simone, credited in the song "Waf", are none other than… the singer's dogs.
And at the level of the voice, "the two are quite fair, but Jean-Marc has a deeper voice than his sister", explains the singer at the microphone Europe 1 of Émilie Mazoyer in
Musique !.
"Something very, very sensual"
An English group, Woofers & Tweeters Ensemble, had already tried this unusual mix of barking and music with
Beatle Barkers
, a Beatles cover album released in 1983. The result has nothing to do with Julien's song, however. Doré, in which the barking is integrated into a more languid rhythm.
Because the whole song stretches out in a slow, almost lascivious tempo, like a guitar solo with 1980s accents. "There can be something very, very sensual," the singer recounts. of this "global mix".
"The more I got into the construction, the more I told myself that this was the freest piece I had done in a long time. It did me a lot of good."
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The chorus continues in the same quasi-sexual vein sought by Julien Doré:
"Serve me love in a glass of pastaga
We went around Verlaine and Kafka
Come on, let's lean on the stars
My heart thirsts for the milky way "
"There was a freedom in everything and it is one of the pieces that I prefer in this record because it breathes this freedom that I needed", insists the artist, whose tour of this fifth studio album begins in October 2021.