"L'aérogramme de Los Angeles" by Woodkid with Louis Garrel

French singer Woodkid recorded this gorgeous, haunting cover of Yves Simon's song "L'aérogramme de Los Angeles" with actor and director Louis Garrel. Presumably (hopefully), this track will be on Woodkid's new album coming out sometime this year, 2020.

De ces collines (From these hills)
Où tu m'attends (Where you wait for me)
À Los Angeles (In Los Angeles)
J'ai bien reçu (I did receive)
L'aérogramme (The aerogramme)
Arrivé par express (Arrived by express)

Un océan (An ocean)
Et quelques rues (And a few streets)
De Paris dix-huitième (Of Paris Eighteen [a neighborhood in Paris])

Tout est si loin (Everything is so far away)
Je ne sais plus (I don't know anymore)
Si c'est vrai que je t'aime (If it's true that I love you)

Sunset Boulevard
Des Indiens (Some Indians)
Nous vendent des photos (Are selling us photos)

Lauren Bacall
Et Hollywood
Avaient trente ans de trop (We're thirty years too old)

Sur ces collines (On these hills)
Près de la mer (Near the sea)
J'ai vu Henry Miller (I saw Henry Miller)

Je ne sais plus (I don't know anymore)
Si j'aime encore (If I still love)
La Vallée de la Mort (Death Valley)

De ces collines (From these hills)
Où tu m'attends (Where you wait for me)
À Los Angeles (In Los Angeles)
J'ai bien reçu (I did receive)
L'aérogramme (The aerogramme)
Arrivé par express (Arrived by express)

http://woodkid.com/
https://www.louis-garrel.com/

"I Will Fall For You" by Woodkid

"I Will Fall For You," a lovely collaboration between Belgian avant-garde choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Woodkid (French musician and director Yoann Leamire).

http://www.woodkid.com/

"The Golden Age" by Woodkid featuring Max Richter's "Embers"

"The Golden Age" by Woodkid featuring Max Richter.

From Woodkid (Yoann Lemaire):
“The Golden Age is the last single and video for my first album.

Throughout the process of directing videos for this story, I slowly removed all digital and post-production layers of my work to finally create this piece. It is somehow a postcard from my childhood, with memories and emotions from the countryside assembled together in a long, free, mellow piece. It’s about the child trapped inside, the haunting memories, the beautiful and the dark ones.

I wanted the camera work and acting direction to be very organic and carnal, in opposition to the digital, rigid and super-composed aspects of the previous videos. That’s why we decided to shoot everything handheld, without any mechanical movement and with no post-production. In that way, I would say this video is very different from the other ones.

It all started when I bought an original print by my favorite photographer, William Gedney, friend and contemporary of Lee and Maria Friedlander, who shot families in rural America in the sixties. I decided that this piece would pay tribute to the beauty of his work and the way he shoots boys and men in their environment, to the sensuality of his eye, which describes so well what I felt for other boys when I was younger.

In order to extend the song and create the right mood for this piece, I collaborated with composer Max Richter. He extended and re-recorded his piece ‘Embers’ to adapt it to the pace and tonality of ‘The Golden Age.’ Together, we created this very free ‘hybrid’ edit of the track, which tells so much about the pace of never ending childhood summers.
In a way, this piece is a final goodbye to four years of work and tour for this album.“

Wow. It reminds me of the work of Terrence Malick...

http://www.woodkid.com/

Woodkid: WOW!

French video director-turned recording artist Woodkid (Yoann Lemoine) makes robust, powerful music. These two debut videos, "Iron" and "Run Boy Run," directed by him are simply thrilling! The second one picks up where the first one leaves off...

http://www.woodkid.com/