The Dijon rocker Foxeagle offers haunting and dark tracks. She dreams that more musicians will saturate the sound of electric guitars.
Foxeagle came alone to our studio #studio3. After an adolescence in Lyon playing in punk rock groups, the 36-year-old young woman decided to get out of the woodwork and take off.
The singer, guitar in hand, assumes her dark universe and her long pieces of unstructured rock: “I had a punk-rock band before. When my musicians left, I decided to pursue in a more intimate direction. “
Emilie Célarier, her real name, learned guitar, bass and drums on her own. She then went to the Lyon Conservatory to learn how to carry out her artistic project.
A debut EP, self-titled and made at home, was released in March 2019. It is simply called Foxeagle and is illustrated by an 18th century black and white engraving, reminiscent of the world of Gustave Doré and Jean La Fontaine.
The second Waves on water was released in October 2020. He was born from October 2019 and matured during confinement: “I spent all my confinement to finish the composition, the texts of the titles and all the arrangements. In this rather strange period, I was able to concentrate on my music.” This anchors the album in an agonizing period.
The album was already set to be dark. But, even I didn’t have the physical freedom, I was able to find, through the fact of making Art, a space of freedom with this record.”
rock singer Foxeagle
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Foxeagle recorded all the instruments (guitar, keyboards, drums) at the studio Triphon de Dijonnow his hometown.
Waves on water… This title is due to Foxeagle’s attraction to the movement of waves, cyclical, made of ups and downs, like life. His stage name also evokes these antagonisms that are dear to him.
For me, it symbolized the idea that there are two opposing forces coming together. When these forces come together, it makes it possible to accomplish things greater than ourselves on a daily basis.
Dijon rock singer Foxeagle
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The singer’s universe is dark. His guitar tuned in minor mode and his haunting rhythms evoke despair and trouble. “The void” assumes this attraction for the void that sometimes seizes her. These skin-deep songs are always born of an intimate momentum: “I start from an emotion, from something sincere. This produces rather long titles with non-academic structures (not verse, chorus, verse). I also like the sound experiments” she explains. The current Noise rock is never far away.
Among his influences, Foxeagle cites the French of The psychotic Monks but especially the American singer Shannon Wright. This rocker borrows from Nick Cave as much as from Janis Joplin. She worked with the French singers of duo Mansfield.TYA. Minus the cello, they are the ones you think of if you are looking for a sorority with Foxeagle.
With his new song called “The shore” (the shore), Emilie admits completing a cycle. It nurtures many projects. In April, she will participate, in Besançon, in the device Musicians at the bastion which supports female artists and artists from gender minorities who carry out a project in the field of contemporary music and wish to develop it.
Then, she will get down to reforming a group for her next scenes.
By summer, she also hopes to launch a new label with local musicians to produce the music she loves, the one that “doesn’t necessarily go on the radio”. It should be called “Minor Joy“. Its objective will also be to promote “musicians who rock“.
For me, it is important to work for diversity.
Foxeagle, Dijon rocker
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Ladies, to your guitars, to your amps, rock is waiting for you!
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