November Ultra: melodies of happiness
Audio
November Ultra in SessionLab.
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By: Hortense Volle
3 min
For SessionLab, Hortense Volle met THE new voice of French pop, November Ultra.
The
late
singer and
songwriter
Agua Roja welcomed her to her home, in the very place where she conceived her upcoming debut solo album,
Bedrooms Walls
.
An original podcast.
Listen to headphones (3D audio).
Publicity
November Ultra.
This name means nothing to you ?
Well, I take the bet here and now: it will come, very much!
Me, in a handful of covers and as many compositions, she literally conquered me.
You may already know her voice: that of Agua Roja, an independent electro-pop group of which our 30-year-old was the singer and
songwriter.
In 2018, after 2 EPs, the group broke up.
And
"like an evolving little pokemon"
, to use its expression, November has become November Ultra!
November Ultra is a voice both soft and powerful, which seems capable of all variations.
A pop artist, big fan of musicals, who loves the Spanish copla as much as Frank Ocean.
A real performer too, on whom we will now have to rely.
I am so convinced of it that I did not wait for the release of her 1st album to ask to meet her.
And I did well because, for SessionLab, November Ultra welcomed me to her home, where she designed this upcoming opus,
Bedrooms Walls
.
His social networks
Titles broadcast in the podcast:
November Ultra tracks:
Honey, Soft & tender, Sans surprises (rework), Ulla & Tuli's Very Special Christmas, You're Peach feat Poppy as
well as extracts from covers posted on its networks.
Agua Roja's tracks:
Summer Ends, Roses
During our conversation, November Ultra mentioned:
His grandfather: Papi Ramon, 85 years old.
A music enthusiast and a
"big geek"
who taught him his first song, a Spanish copla,
La Zarzamora
.
Sung by the dancer and actress Lola Flores, it gives that.
Frank Ocean's cult debut mixtape,
Nostalgia
,
Ultra
(2011).
His taste for musicals and in particular for
The Melody of Happiness
, released in 1965 with in particular Julie Andrews.
For November Ultra, Mother Superior's song,
Climb Ev'ry Mountain
, is a
"diamond"
.
The album
Grace
(1994) by Jeff Buckley on which appears in particular this title,
Lilac Wine
The filming of the clip for
Miel
, written and directed by Zite & Léo
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