To say that Daniel Boucher is a free electron is obvious. The 52-year-old artist deliberately avoids the beaten path with his launch With great melodies, Volume 2an exploded album available exclusively on his brand new digital platform.
“You don’t release it if you don’t think it’s your best album,” the singer-songwriter says with a laugh.
“We say it a lot, it’s a bit cliché, but I’m really proud of it. Like À grands coups de tounes vol.1, it is an album of songs that don’t necessarily share a common theme in theme. But it’s a musically harmonious whole. This is the second album I made with Jean-Sébastien Chouinard and our bond has exploded. “We are big guitar freaks and have a lot of the same musical references,” explains the Beatles fan. I found my studio brother.”
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In complete freedom
The passage of time does not dry out the passion for the music of the singer of La Désise, but rather nourishes it. “It’s a job where you can develop over time. For example, professional athletes… At some point, the body can no longer keep up. Music is nourished by all life experiences.
“Every time you manage to untie a knot in your existence, an additional layer of consciousness is placed on you,” he adds. A calming layer, if you will. When you pick up your guitar the next day, you’ll notice it.
Today, Daniel Boucher is more accepting of his creative impulses. “Like sweet Beatles melodies: obvious, easy to sing, that stay in your ear. When I arrived in this industry in the late ’80s, there was a tendency to resist the glorious choruses. I’m becoming more and more accepting of the ideas that come my way. Now I like to let the melodies flow, like a river flowing through rocks.”
With great bursts of sound, Vol. 2 lets great tides flow between the very unconventional beginning of Dames Jean – “on the verge of a little unhealthy” -, the setting of the poem Cantouque sans recourse by Gérald Godin, the independence on Huit Million, a small touch of Gaspésie – where the artist lives today – on En Roulé vers Percé and Je peleurerai, which confirms that the artist still sees the French language as a great playground.
Your own digital platform
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Like his music, Daniel Boucher has his own way of managing his career. On the occasion of the release of his ninth album, the artist recently launched his digital platform danielboucher.quebec to present it exclusively. Thanks to a “Dansubscription”, fans can access various exclusive content.
“It is a reaction to the way we consume music today and the consequences for the income of artists operating in markets such as French-speaking Quebec,” explains Daniel Boucher. “I’m not mad, I don’t want to sulk,” he adds. But I’m trying something.”
À grand coups de tounes vol.2 is available exclusively on danielboucher.quebec. Performance on November 8th at 6 p.m. at the National. For full details click here.