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CMU Approved
Approved: Émilie Simon
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 13 July 2010
Émilie Simon was trained at the Sorbonne, which I know from period dramas is impressive. Not only that, she has a masters degree in musicology from the Conservatoire et l’Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique. However, the electronic pop music she makes is far from being stuffy or academic, though it does benefit from the freedom to experiment and deeply study music from a young age that Simon enjoyed.
She released her eponymous debut album in 2003, gaining attention for a superb cover of The Stooges’ I Wanna Be Your Dog’. When performing live, she uses something known as “the arm”, a gadget which encases her left arm and enables her to trigger and play instruments live as well as manipulate her voice. You can see this for yourself when she plays London’s Cargo on 20 Jul, the day after the release of her fourth album, ‘The Big Machine’.
Meanwhile, various tracks from across her career are up on her MySpace page, including a beautiful cover of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’.
www.myspace.com/emiliesimonmusic