The Empress has the groove

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The French group L'Impératrice in SessionLab.

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By: Hortense Volle

3 min

Impossible to resist the pop chic with cosmic disco accents of L'Impératrice.

To understand the reasons for this success, Hortense Volle invited herself to the studio that Her Majesty had set up in an old restored factory.

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How proud it looks the path traced in nearly ten years by The Empress!

It all started in 2012 when Charles, a former music journalist, founded an instrumental disco quintet, dancing groovy, Parisian and uniquely male.

Three years and two EPs later, The Empress finds her voice, irresistible and aerial, that of Flore.

From then on, the sextet has continued to gain momentum and make France groove.

It is indeed difficult to resist its chic pop, with cosmic disco accents under cinematographic influences.

In 2018, it is the coronation of the Empress.

His album

Matahari is a

hit and makes the group one of the ambassadors of the new French-speaking electro pop in the world.

Today, the second opus of these six thirty-

something

musicians,

Tako Tsubo

, is also likely to upset everything in its path.

To get to the bottom of it, SessionLab invited itself to the studio that the group set up last fall in an old rehabilitated factory, La Sira.

In Asnières-sur-Seine, very close to Paris, meeting with Charles (keyboards), Flore (vocals, texts) and David (bass).

Attention, helmet compulsory!

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Titles broadcast in the podcast

Extracts from the album

Tako Tsubo

(Microqlima - 2021):

Fou;

Hematoma;

Fear of Girls;

Digital Sunset;

Fallen for the stage;

Heart murmur ;

Blue anomaly;

So much love lost;

Voodoo;

Submarine

Extracts from the

Matahari

album

 (Microqlima- 2018):

Ma Starlight;

Vacation

Extracts from the album

 Odyssée

 (Microqlima - 2015):

Le

Départ

► During our conversation The Empress mentioned ...

Sissi The Empress

, the Austrian film from the 1950s that revealed Romy Schneider

The Coachella festival, in the Californian desert, in which the group will finally participate in 2022!

Leila Djitli's report, “Broken heart syndrome” broadcast on France Culture on 11/9/2017

The French singer-songwriter and singer Michel Berger whose band repeats the title

Tant d'amore perdue

The Parisian stopover of their 2020 virtual tour

► To see also:

The Empress at the Grand Palais - Passengers - ARTE Concert

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