- Speaker #0
Thank you
- Speaker #1
Hello, so you're listening to Panorama Deluxe. Today we have two new guests, Nova and Olivier from the Discover Project, who are just about to get a new album release. on Sergio Outprima Records label. So without further ado, I will ask the first question to Nova Olivier. Hello. Hello.
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Hi Emmanuel. How are you? Fine.
- Speaker #1
Perfectly fine,
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yes.
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So, can you tell us how you started your Discover project? So,
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let's go. How can I say? The Discover project... In fact, I don't know how it came to me. It was in the early 2000s, the beginning of the 21st century. And sometimes, you know, there are things that we do without really thinking about it. And for me, the most important thing was to write songs, melodies, and choosing a name, a... You know, Discover, a pseudonym, I don't know. It was good for me because it allowed me to collaborate with other people, singers, I had a chance to sing on the album. And in fact, that's how California Songs was born in 2004. And that's it. So I'll leave it. In reality, Discover Projects, I can't really remember when and how it came out. It started in the...
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In my mind, in the early 21st century, sometimes things are just made without thinking about it. To me, the most important thing is to write songs and melodies. So, hiding myself behind a photo is only fine for me. And it allows me to talk about what others like, especially the P.A. in 2004. This is how Caliphate is now working.
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Okay, so I'm about California obviously and We will listen to my vintage car very good back to you interviews and maybe take extracts of last album and We'll get back to you
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- Speaker #0
Thank you.
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This is the second video I've recorded in a week. I hope you enjoyed it.
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Okay, so it was my vintage car. And yes, the question is obvious, but I will ask you anyway. Why are you recording in English for your French? So,
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for me, French is a very beautiful language. I like to use it for other projects, more intimate, but I had the opportunity to play in the years 2010-2011 in New York on another project. And the Americans loved the French language, for them it was sexy. I thought it was Italian or Brazilian, and that's it. And why I chose on this particular project to sing all my English? Because I'm in love with melodies, harmonies, and I think English allows this freedom. I really wanted to be free on harmonies, etc. And I think English is really perfect for that. Well, I do like French songs, but for this cover project, well, let's say I had the occasion to play music to East Village a few years ago in New
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York. in the 20s in the early 30s and i've noticed that americans they really like french songs and uh they think it's really they find it very sexy to me i i was just thinking italian was even more sincere but it turns out the american prefer the french language so um um well With this Discover project, I really wanted to feel even free by working with harmonies in English, in the right language, and even more musical language than
- Speaker #1
French. Okay, so it was an obvious question because there was always the debate of French versus English in the music world, but I didn't want to add another... I'm a little bit awaited to that debate but I think it was interesting to know all about your creative process. So talking about creating process, we'll listen to another song from Discover on SoFa and then we'll get back to you.
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I'm all the way back from Google, too. I've got one week and all this dance will numb. It's time to come on and have fun. I can't do this anymore. It's not going. Trapped in some bubble.
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All I really can't stop is this.
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Don't you know?
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Don't you know?
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I will return. I think I'm perfect. I'm sounding happy. We know this place will burn We know this place will burn We stand to come up and we're happy Little things in the universe We've so to come
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over
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So about the influence game, you know, it's also an obvious question, but it's an interesting one, I think. It's easy to, when you talk about California, you think about a lot of bands and style from 60s sunshine pop to more slick 70s production. But I would like to know your influence and see if it fits to what I think.
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Yes, that's it. We all have influences. We're talking about California, so we'll think of the Beach Boys right away. That's for sure. What I like most is... I always say it, the melody and the harmonies. So, of course, the Beach Boys are the best, but in California, you have Crosby, Stephen Nash, and Young, you have the Beach Boys, I said it, you have Simon Garfunkel, even if they're from New York, etc. So, I also like the side, you know, the girls bands, the Supremes, the things from Phil Spector, which are not necessarily Californians, but that's what I like, in fact, in real life. It's beyond California. And as you said, it's true, we think of the 60s, the 70s, but in fact, I'm absolutely influenced by that. But I also like everything I hear today, and that's what I like about the way I listen to music in Poland. I mean, you don't see any form, but in fact, I've discovered a lot of groups, not only Americans, but people who are 20, 25 years old, who make a bit of music. that we can relive from that time. And I like that. I'm not just in nostalgia to say there are the Beach Boys, the Booteuses and nothing else. There's a lot going on. And it's cool. I repeat, if you don't talk about the Yiddish, I love it. But there are plenty of them. There are plenty of less known ones. That's what I wanted to say. I'm going to try to translate. You said that we all have have
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our influences right and yours are main focus on music with the harmonies of other things we think about the British points but normally there are not only the Californian music there are also music from the Beatles, the Supremes, the Girls Band, the Crosby's, the National Young and basically I really like music from the 60s the 70s but I am not an authentic person Also, keep an eye on the current scene, especially in the USA. And, you know, everybody talks about Billie Eilish. I like what she does, and there are very multiple other artists I've discovered randomly through the platforms. And, yeah. they're also getting themselves influenced by the music from the 60s and 70s, right?
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Right. It's funny because you answered the question that was coming, which was about how to get beyond your influence, not being a rivalist, and finally you answered that question.
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Okay, in fact, it answers the previous question. At some point, after writing for a while, we don't think about ourselves. We don't think about who we are, we have a way of writing, certain gimmicks. We have our own code, our own music, and we know how to arrange the songs, how to see things.
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kind of the answer i wanted to bring to you on the previous question there comes a time you become your own influence you do not think about people you like you create your own music with your own code with your own way to arrange your song all right so let
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me take you down to let me take you down to the song from discover And then we'll get back to the interview.
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Thank you. It's a beautiful day A day to keep it from me I'm not sleeping, I'm not awake I can't sleep, I'm not awake I'm not shining in the light I'm not sad, I'm not sick I'm not in the sun and rain This is time for something right You give me love, I love you more, the day before,
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you leave on the shore.
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Let me take you around Let me take you around Let me take you around With a beautiful dragon Let me thank you to everyone there. Because of the capacity for you to do so. We can't do it without you. Thank you. Shining. Let me thank you again.
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So... Did you ever go to California? All your fantasies from films, fiction, movies, books, films, whatever, fit with the real experience?
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I went to Italy a long time ago, but not very long. But it's not really important to me, and I'll go back to it, I hope, because I'd like to dig a little. But in fact, what I'm describing is an America that is a little fantasized, indeed, and that we lived through the movies, through the books. For me, it's a little bit the utopia of Thomas More, in fact, and it's a way of dealing with reality. And reality is not necessarily, how to say, it's not what we prefer, we deal with it, in fact. And for me, it's a way of... of half an hour, to be honest,
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and a few minutes, a few hours, a few days through what I wrote. exist, maybe it has never been real, it's like too much more utopia. Reality is not really necessarily pseudo-sense. So when I'm dreaming of escapes and permits, two seconds, a few seconds, a few minutes for the promise.
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And did you have feedback already from Evan for your previous projects from California? from california and artists it would be interesting to know how californian artists react to your people living actually living in california react to your music uh today yeah today i mean uh maybe in your contact list people you are you know like in uh unlocated in that
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We see them through My Vintage Car or the previous one called I'm Saving the Sun. With the label, we see the returns, and we have a lot of returns on American radios or on the streams. Our streams, there are a lot in the United States, especially in the West Coast, from Seattle, San Francisco, we saw. and then And also to complete, a lot in Asia. It's funny, Japan, we had a lot of messages from FENG who said they were going to listen to the titles at McDonald's, at Osaka, at I don't know where, or at H&M. You know, they have friends there, they discovered us like that. So yeah, we started to get feedback. We had chronicles, by the way, we had chronicles of webvideos in America.
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So, yes, we do have some feedback, very good feedback. First of all, we've noticed that the audience is our audience. When we dropped to the song, Non Son Nindusan, then now, I think, to Say Girl, My Kindly Car, they are coming from California. They also come from Seattle. We come from London as well. And, uh, it has been. quite a bit have been stood by this from Asia. Some fans brought us from Japan, say they discovered the music in McDonald's in Osaka and Tokyo. So it's kind of funny to see how the music is being spread everywhere and, you know, gets some interest from the public.
- Speaker #1
That's very interesting. By the way, Nova, thank you very much for your translation and interpretation because i had a little bit of arguments but uh it's kind of funny to share this interview with uh olivier so yeah and uh it's interesting because it's fair to you as well because you are part of his musical project so it's good to have you too yes thank you so um about to close and but you Hopefully, we'll talk again to a new episode of the podcast. But before we leave, can you just tell us if you have any plans to play at festivals or in the future, whatever, if you have any plans for the following month or maybe this summer or this fall?
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It will be rather autumn because the festivals were closed already this fall. They are closed in January and February, the competition. And we, the album, you see, we finished it in May, so it's too late in fact. So we hope to defend that a little more in the fall. Anyway, there was a Parisian date for the release of the album. And after, we will try to shoot a little, even abroad. Because in fact, as we said, the work of talent in response, we still have the option of abroad, the album is not out yet. But we have the possibility to play abroad and we hope that it will be done. And I hope that we will have the opportunity to talk again on an interview.
- Speaker #1
With great pleasure. So thank you very much for your time. And I hope your album will be a great success as it will be well deserved. Many thanks for this time in the interview. So thank you very much and talk to you soon.
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Bye. Thank you. Bye.
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See you soon.
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Turn around.
