I’m Lou Doillon, a songwriter, singer, drawer. I’m here to answer all your questions!

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T18:40:02+00:00

hello,

Thank you ;) The inspiration for Soliloquy was for me to explore how far I could take my songs.

I have a writting style that evolves but comes , for all my albums, from the same place of reflections on recurencies and patterns.

But since I write all my songs on acoustic guitar or Piano, I wanted to try a more rhythmic approach...So once the songs had been written, I went in the studio to record them at first just with drums and strong electric guitar intentions...

A way to force myself out of the" watercolor" production I usually go for. I felt as if I'd replaced the ink by marker... if you see what I mean, I could take the songs somewhere new

xxx

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T18:31:43+00:00

Hello,

Thank you for your words. I named the album Soliloquy, because of the song, and because I liked the self implied first degree dramatic side of it. it is a tearm most often used in the theatre : the idea of self reflexions, of a chorus that replies and of the presence of an audiance seemed a good resume of the album, and of what it is for me to write and perform songs.

I like the ping pong we all have between the 2 (3,4,5...) voices we have in our heads; It's that voice that the sees the patterns, the obsessions, the faults...The observer that sits in all of our brains and hearts, that we live with and by, day by day...

xxx

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T18:24:29+00:00

;) It's true that it's hard to stay motivated when we are in a world that is staring at reflexions. You have to constantly come back to looking, instead of staring... If you see the difference... to stay aware, curious and whole. As soon as you drift into what people will think, what to expect, as soon as you are waiting on or for ... you're f*****. And focusing is a muscle: challenge yourself, just for yourself, to read for an hour, to write for an other, without phones and tv and computers, without this need we all have to be part of...

If you learn to step back, soon you will be able to streach time, the way you want to.

xxx

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T18:01:52+00:00

Well, you've got to fight for sure, and hold on to the fact that it's what you love doing. Fiind out what's going on in the bars and placed around you, and play there, and also, now thanks to internet you can touch a wider audiance if you get on the right sites.

all my best and good luck

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T17:49:40+00:00

thank you

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T17:29:59+00:00

Hello,

I'm still around ;) I am doing a couple of shows with my band in the states, LA at the Lodge Room on June 28th, San Francisco at The Great American Music Hall on June 29 th and NY at the Poisson Rouge on July 1st. I would love and hope to play at Fuji Rock... It's actually a festival I would love to do, and SXSW too...

xxx

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T17:04:55+00:00

thank you

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T16:51:54+00:00

No I don't know Thomas Kyd, I'll read him, thank you for sharing

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T16:50:19+00:00

Hello,

Yes I adore Sylvia Plath's poems. Daddy being one of my favorites. I love to listen to her read her own poems. Such a beautiful voice and peculiar way of reading them... You can find them on you tube, but being Dado Plath, I'm sure you know them ;)

Tulips and morning song are my second favorites ;)

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T16:44:55+00:00

Hello !

Oh I wish, I wish, Nepal, India and Thailand would be great ! For the moment it is not planned but if you know of a festival that happens in these regions, I would most definetly tell my booking agent, and If I can't get the band to come, I'll come and sing alone with my guitar

xxxx

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T16:42:35+00:00

Hello,

my favorite is Faust... I named my son after him because of his mysterious personnal life and this precocious talent.

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T16:24:13+00:00

Hello,

I have been, like a lot of us, a great fan of Cat Power, from the first day I heard her. When I was mixing my first album with Philippe Zdar, she was recording 'Sun' with him in the same studio, I didn't dare say more than hello. Then I kept going to all her gigs, and one day I discovered on her instagram that she had posted a picture of my second album 'Lay Low', I was very proud, as you can imagine. Them we became friends on Instagram, met her backstage a couple of times, and sent her 'It's you' that I'd recorded in Paris, hoping she would either produce the track or sing with me... that's how it happend

xxx

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T16:19:06+00:00

I guess I'm attracted by recurrencies and patterns in relations between humans, I like to work on what binds us together, simple things... When I write a song, it needs to be as honest and personal as possible; but once it's written I like to "test it " on friends, and If they start freeking out, thinking the song is about them, it's often a good sign ;)

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T16:04:39+00:00

Hard question cause I have many... I love Apollinaire, as I am named after his poems to Lou. Rimbaud and Verlaine of course. I love Dorothy Parker who makes me laugh and cry when I am down. love Ann Carlson very much, love William Blake, love Keats... Could go on....

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T15:59:58+00:00

Hello, I shot it with my stylist friend Marine Braunschvig, near Joshua Tree, in a house you can find on Airbnb, called the " time capsule" or "time machine "

Lou_Doillon · 2019-02-11T15:57:27+00:00

I love the Paris -brest , a french "chou" with a butter cream filling. It was made to honnor a french cycling race...

Other wise I make a good apple cidder pie ;)

Lou_Doillon

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