Julii Sharp - Toucan
Julii Sharp is a French singer-songwriter from Toulouse. She sings and plays folk songs sang in French and English.
In a languorous introduction that soars to the heights of stripped-down folk where every note is caressing, Toucan takes us straight to the heart of the matter and announces the programme from the outset. It's beautiful," sings Julii Sharp in the opening bars of the opening track. And indeed it is. It's simple, it's beautiful, it's obvious. And you find yourself thinking that nothing should be other than this moment of suspended grace, where so much is expressed with so little.
The woman who began her career shouting at Alanis Morissette and Francis Cabrel confesses to an artistic epiphany when she listens to Marie Laforêt. Her ability to combine the French language with folk sounds, without sacrificing one for the other, opened the doors to a new approach to music for the young singer of the time. And mysteriously, if listening to this EP brings to mind Hope Sandoval and her dreamy, hypnotic atmospheres, the miracle happens especially when Julii sings in French: she knows how to take us by the hand and guide us into unexplored territory where we feel immediately on familiar ground.
Encounters, journeys and artistic wanderings have fuelled the inspiration for songs that borrow as much from Karen Dalton as they do from First Aid Kit, and unfold the thread of a music that chooses not to make a choice between all its influences. On these layers of weightless pop purity, the listener just has to let himself be lulled, to lose himself without thinking any further.
