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A woman in love on a road trip. Kept alert by striking melodies and the rocking energy of the motors roar. Her name is Emilie Marsh and here she reinvents Nevada. The American state you ask? But this anglo-french musician has never set foot there. Nevada is for an old car, old-fashioned but still sought after by many, driven by nostalgia. Nevada, because of the syllable « va » (go), injects music and lyrics into the continued movement towards the destination, wherever that may be and supposing she reaches
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Nevada is the story of a woman who takes the road to fnd her loved one but fnds herself disorientated by her wanderings and changes direction. In fact, the fnishing point may not be the one we think. Track after track, Emilie Marsh reveals new facets of her talents as author, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist. We saw fashes of these on her eponymous frst album in 2019 and now see them in their complete plurality thanks to Nevada. « It’s the frst time a record refects me so much » she admits. Because she loves to share in the studio, she has teamed up with another gifted musician, Sebastien Collinet. Together they have reshaped a Nevada already produced by Emilie.
Infuenced by flms seen during the lockdown : Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders, with the music of Ry Cooder, road movies from Pierrot le Fou to Thelma and Louise, Emilie Marsh assembles a musical narrative with strict tempo and multiple references. In this respect she mirrors Tarantino’s cinema which she cherishes. « I was looking for a contrast between the intimate interior of a car and the open spaces of America, real or imagined » she explains. « Between day and night, which I particularly love, between low pitched verses and higher pitched, more open choruses». These associations of opposites make for immediate anthems carried by the sometimes ironic lightness of pop music, with the energy of rock and roll that the singer Dani would not disdain. Emilie has certainly learned much from her collaboration on stage and on the album Horizons Dorés with this emblematic fgure of the French pop scene. In particular to conjure images in music.
Interspersed with interludes, the Errances captured on iPhone under the body of a car, improvised and then roughly reworked, Nevada plays with moods and characters. Emilie Marsh’s voice, with it’s multiple variations, is the thread connecting all this. An instant hit, Nevada is an invitation to travel, geographically and emotionally underlined with venomous rifs.
« L’horizon va changer de place / La nuit dévale sur la terrasse Je t’attends et je fume / Il est trop tard pour repartir / Trop tard pour espérer dormir », she sings in the frantic and existentialist dance of Ironie .
To paraphrase Beaudelaire, the choir in Tout commençait la nuit, sweeps us away like a wave with Emilie as the priestess of the electric melody who in Salam Saravah becomes a chaman before liberating the stellar fever in (La Nuit) Tombée de Haut : « Qui me sauverait des eaux / Me ferait nager plus loin/ Qui m’aura sur son dos / Demain. »
Also on the agenda, two duos with other artists for who’s careers and personalities Emilie has a lasting admiration. Melancolie sur la Riviera is shared with La Grande Sophie. « I discovered her work when I was in high school and I’m so happy to share this ballad with intersecting messages with the artist who inspired me to go on stage and who’s music has always infuenced me » .
As for the staccato Heroes, it is enhanced by the presence of Gaetan Roussel, whom Emilie followed as a teenager and who readily accepted her invitation for this collaboration.
Amongst Emilie’s infuences for sound and words : Anna Calvi, Sylvia Plath, Catherine Ribeiro (her muse for Dunhill), Arthur Rimbaud, Blaise Cendrars, Isabelle Mayereau, whose thrilling Chevrolet Impala she revisits, Apollinaire, Henri Michaux...
Through her considered use of language, the absence of articles, her enumerative and nominative bias, Emilie Marsh enforces the poetic style which has always been hers. Let’s not forget that she studied literature and was a prizewinner of the national poetry competition « Poesie en Liberté » whilst still in her teens.
Nevada appears on the fabulous FRACA!!! label, co-founded in 2018 by Emile Kate and Robi, where the female voice is honored. Despite the constraints imposed by the responsibilities that this entails, Emilie is « proud to be independent ». To be able to choose her team, faithful as ever, from Sébastien Collinet to artistic director Alexandre Attias. To have the creative freedom which has enabled her to make this second album a captivating story. A musical road trip which carries us along and never lets us want to abandon.
