Épilogue, mon premier album complet, est lancé dans l’univers✨ Épilogue, c’est une petite victoire du temps qui passe 🩵
San James is both a bunker and an explosion. A genuine catalog of human feelings, the Montreal singer-songwriter's alternative pop captures the collapse of bridges once thought indestructible, while inspiring the momentum needed to cross the coming river. With her warm, inimitable voice and her intelligent writing, she opens breaches, portals to introspection and emancipation.
With three EPs to her name - No One Changes Overnight (2016), Bridges (2018) and San James (2020) - and as many acclaimed singles (“Je ne te dirai pas” / “Breaks My Heart To Be Into You” in duet with Julyan and “Ça va mieux”), San James has also been seen on stage opening for the likes of Elliot Maginot, Foreign Diplomats and Soran. On recording, she works as a backing vocalist for Thierry Larose, Miro and Simon Lachance, as well as being a member of the group Tango Golf Tango.
A few months after the release of Guillaume Lambert's feature film “Niagara”, in which four of her songs were featured, San James teamed up with Simon Pedneault (Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Gabrielle Shonk) and Marius Larue (Hubert Lenoir), and undertook the co-direction of her first French-language album. In 2023, the gifted melodist unveiled three enveloping and enigmatic singles — Je n'habite pas chez moi, Rappelle-toi and Les ponts — and presented Fuir on January 12, 2024, the last single before the album's release.
These new songs pave the way for San James' debut album, “Épilogue”, released on February 16. The long-play draws an open window, allowing yesterday to escape, hence its evocative title. This album belongs to an artist who has been singing for a long time, and who seeks especially to reconnect with the essence of gesture, to remove it from its charge. It is also the long-term project of a resilient woman — confronted with her perfectionism, her rigidities and her questioning — who trains herself to let go. Forged in pain, but produced in pleasure, it enchants with its catchy melodic lines and fleshed-out harmonies, moves with its nuances and confessional strophes, and seize with the gentle violence that at times emanates from it. The raw truth is this: with “Épilogue”, San James sets out to mend, once and for all, the silent fractures of a little girl who grew up too fast and whom she now knows better than ever.
