The Poitevin Nicolas Jules defends his twelfth album on the roads of France. For a long time exiled to Brussels, he was passing by near Poitiers, for a concert with the locals. The opportunity was perfect for discovering the Rock’n’Roll sound of the new opus.
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When Nicolas Jules returns to his old Poitevines lands, it is most often for a concert. This week, an appointment was given in Migné-Auxances, in Vienne, where the musician, exiled for years in Brussels, performed at the inhabitant, at the invitation of an association.
“I like to meet places like that, improbable, because I meet people who do not go to the show”testifies Nicolas Jules.
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Originally Poitevin, Nicolas Jules has lived for years in Brussels where he composed his twelfth album. He was passing by near Poitiers for a concert with the locals. Report by François Bombard and Nicolas Maillet.
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Member of the Lézart Vert association, Monique is “Particularly happy today” of the artist’s arrival. She recognizes that she “Didn’t believe it would be possible one day.”
I made everything sitting on my bed and my desire was to transcribe the idea that I have rock’n’roll, that of the 1950s.
Alone on stage, with his guitar, Nicolas Jules came to defend his new album, Rock’n’roll marabout sound fifties Originally from rock’n’roll (available on the artist’s Bandcamp page).
“I played solo in a bedroom. I placed microphones around my bed, I made everything sit on my bed and my desire was to transcribe the idea that I have rock’n’roll, that of the 50s”explains the artist.
In twelve albums since 1998, Nicolas Jules imposed his music in the ears which follows him most often since his first songs and this EP, which already offered a poetic and laughing epic, From the atrium to the ventricle. Since then, the Poitevin by birth has seen his journey crowned with the prestigious Grand Prix of the Charles-Cros Academy for his album Sinkin 2017 (she had already awarded her prize for favorite, when she was published by her first real album in 2004, The heart on the table), from the Félix-Leclerc Prize given on the occasion of the Francofolies of Montreal in 2005.
His peers also quickly offer him prestigious first parts. Those of Miossec, Rachid Taha, Jacques Higelin, Jean-Louis Aubert or Arno. But Nicolas Jules seems to cultivate discretion, remains behind and engages in a career, without a record company.
The one who claims that “Posterity does not interest him at all” trace his way through a rich and long concert road on which “He hopes to meet you soon”, dixit son site Internet.
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