Promesses

by Aude Langlois

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I wrote the core of this song 10 years ago in Paris. The milky light was shining in this beautiful white apartment on the Rue de Bretagne. It felt calm and full of possibilities yet a melancholily of something that didn’t exist tainted this beautiful moment. I felt young and old at the same time. It is a song written on and for the guitar, its resonances and specific harmonies taking place in the body of the wood.

Once in Berlin, I tried to record this song many times in very different settings. Vulnerability was perceived as weakness, melancholy as sadness and versatility as uncertainty. “Promesses Matinales” is a song about unspoken feelings, about having an open heart to possibilities, about light being untangled with shadows. I didn’t know by then, but I had to let it sit for a while until it could be born into the world.

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Lyrics

L’esquisse d’une journée
Un matin, clair et frais
Où tout est à venir
Tout est en devenir

Comme une empreinte à laisser
Une arabesque à tracer
Dans cette si belle journée
Tout est à commencer

L’impression diffuse
D’un déjà vu
Le sourire habité
Des rêves de la nuit passée

Comme une empreinte à laisser
Une arabesque à tracer
Dans cette si belle journée
Tout est à commencer

Remains of dreams
Diffuse impressions
In the stillness of the new day
Everything is yet to come

A calm interlude
While the world gets busy
A blank page for new memories
Morning promises

Comme une empreinte à laisser
Une arabesque à tracer
Dans cette si belle journée
Tout est à commencer

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released July 31, 2020

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Aude Langlois Berlin, Germany

Aude Langlois is a French musician and composer based in Berlin.

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