shifting forms by elie zoé

« shifting forms is born out of the need to redefine my relationship with my voice—and with the world.

end of 2023, i decide to wrap up the hello future me tour after having to transpose all the songs several keys down, while coming to terms with the fact that i could no longer sing any of the songs i had ever written.

i enter 2024 as if stepping into the kind of "mythic time" that animist cosmogonies speak of: my usual vocal habits no longer work, and i don’t know how to present myself in public anymore.

i choose to see this state of non-definition as an exciting way to understand and rethink who i am and what i do. for that, i need to build a safe place. with my near-brother louis jucker, we build a studio out of salvaged materials, and in parallel, i relearn how to sing with the melodies i write. i feed on stories from anthropologists and biologists, and the lyrics that emerge speak of change, of blurred boundaries, of connections between beings. by ourselves, we record and mix these songs made of pop melodies and rock instrumentation, with a new voice that i love recording.

in the fall, i publicly change my name, removing a "mi" from my former stage name. my name is elie zoé. this is my fourth album, although it might sound like a first. inside it lives a multitude of beings inviting us into a contact zone without limits, where the names we gave them are open to question. » - elie zoé

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