I recently had the opportunity to talk with Alain, member, along with Jérôme, Coldwave band L'Ordre d'Héloïse, and here you can see an interesting interview full of musical influences, projects and history of the band from Lille (France).
1. We
know all started back in 1992, tell us how was the beginning of L'Ordre
d'Héloïse?
I met Frédéric in front of our school, my look
left no doubt about the fact that I loved The Cure! He was a fan also. He left
the band in which he played to join my group "Black Scream". After
some time we decided to play our own
music instead of covers... The group has been renamed "L'ordre
d'Héloïse". Frédéric task was mainly
the composition, I took care of the texts. Gradually, however, the
duties have been divided equally. Frederic had the gift to make my lyrics become totally his, sing them
and composing music for them as if it
they had been written by him... We were tied above all by a deep friendship ,
and music was our common passion.
2. There
was emblematic bands like The Cure or Depeche Mode as influence in your
music... How has been influenced L'Ordre d'Héloïse the music of the 80s?
The
Cure mainly... I was 16 when
"Disintegration" has been released ! I already loved The Cure at the
time... But when I heard this album, I
knew that my life was going to change! I started to play music at that time... Guitar, Bass,
Keyboards... Even a bit of drums now !
Other bands have also influenced us: The
Chameleons UK, Dead Can Dance, Joy Division or Cranes (I'm totally a fan of
Alison Shaw's voice).
More generally, I think that all the “cold”
music of that era influences us, we draw something, in the emotions that come
out... Emotions that we try to put into our music.
3. How
has evolved your music over time?
I think our music has evolved with us in many
parameters. First of all we are ageing,
so we gain maturity in the lyrics. The same can be told about technical skills.
And our collection of instrument get
richer, and this is an opportunity to
find new sounds.
Our personal life changes also... The story of
the group is marked by the death of Frédéric last year... It deeply affected me,
because he was first of all a close friend, we were almost a family. It is
obvious that musical perspectives change under these conditions. We are
primarily story tellers, when life got darker, this fall inevitably down on the
color of the stories...
4.
Nowadays there is a resurgence of Cold Wave, what do you think of it?
I am pleased that the emotional music regains
space in the current music. But that does not change a lot for us. We make coldwave
since we know three chords alignments... Because it is our native language, our
DNA.
5.
Recently you have released the album "Après le chaos"...
Yes, and we will try look for a label to
distribute this album ! After the death of Frédéric, it was vital for me to
write new songs, some of them are an evident
tribute to the great musician and friend that he has been for me. Jérôme
joined me playing guitar (also the bass
on some tracks), our line-up does not allow us to think about making concerts
and then for having played live when I was younger, I know that would require a
great commitment and work and honestly, our personal lives do not allow us to
do it. That said, what really matters to
us is above all to tell stories.
6. What
projects does L'Ordre d'Héloïse have in mind for this 2015?
We are already working on the album that will
follow "Après le chaos". It should be called "A la
folie". We also plan to have some collaborations with female singers
for songs written specifically, I want to send a message to all the female singers who can sing in French, don't hesitate to
contact us if you are interested!
We will try to continue to promote
"L'ordre d'Héloïse" to get more known, because we just made the first
steps on this... I'd like to use the opportunity of that interwiew to share
some links:
Officiel site: http://lordredheloise.free.fr/
Bandcamp : https://lordredheloise.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud
: https://soundcloud.com/lordre-dh-lo-se
Reverbnation : http://www.reverbnation.com/lordredh%C3%A9lo%C3%AFse?profile_view_source=header_icon_nav
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