Guests of Emilie Mazoyer in "Musique!", Tuesday evening, Simon Buret and Olivier Coursier of the group AaRON present "Anatomy of light", their new album.
They tell in particular how they, to their surprise, found themselves working with Jean-Claude Van Damme, who dances in the video for their song "Ultrarêve".
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"We've been around for a little while, but we always have crazy moments like that".
It is with astonishment that the French group AaRON remembers their first exchange with the actor Jean-Claude Van Damme.
A phone call that will bring them to the point of turning the fantastic actor in the clip of their song
Ultrarêve
, as they tell Tuesday at the microphone of Emilie Mazoyer in the program
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The group had heard of Jean-Claude Van Damme enjoying their music before, but they had never met him.
"One day, we received a phone call from Jean-Claude who said he wanted to work with us. I still took five minutes to make sure it was really Jean-Claude Vandamme on the phone", remembers singer Simon Buret.
"Like it or not, it's an icon"
The duo meet the actor, and the current goes.
When thinking about the music video for their song
Ultrarêve
, he looks for someone who could carry the point of the title.
"The main sentence is 'Don't be afraid, there is no mistake'. It's about eating your demons, accepting them, understanding that you are the sum of everything that goes through you. And that it is not very serious if we screw up, ”explains the singer.
And the name of Jean-Claude Van Damme comes to them as obvious.
"We wondered who would have this status of icon, which means that the lyrics would be listened to and that it would be a flag a bit like that in this desert of new technologies and things that are scary," says Olivier Buret.
"Jean-Claude Vandamme has this status. Whether we like it or not, he's an icon".
The duo were also won over by the freedom embodied by the Belgian actor and stuntman.
"There is something bright in this guy. We wanted him so free that in the end, he becomes conductor of the waves in the clip," rejoices the singer.
"The idea was for that person to speak up and say 'Don't be afraid. There's no mistake', as if to say 'If I'm here, you can do it. too'."