5 tracks from Lylac’s fifth album – Matélé

Ten years in the past, Mass. Amaury journey the world beneath the title Lilac. Nickname impressed by the music “Lylac Wine” by Nina Simone. Dwelling with a need for different locations, the singer from Brussels takes his acoustic guitar on the aspect of roads, in Asia or America, to the highest of snow-capped mountains or deep in tropical forests. This need to flee has at all times been on the coronary heart of his songs.

his fifth album”The Holy and the Free“imagined after being glorified on a visit to Cambodia (the place Amaury’s spouse is from). an ethnic minority largely depending on its relationship with nature.

Conceived as a narrative of journey and bits of life, the album has nothing “Asian”. Listening to attention-grabbing titles like “California Heaven”, “The Buffalo Spirit” or “Out within the wild”, we’re way more transported to the canyons of the American West than to the Cardamom mountains in Cambodia.

However as Amaury, who additionally particularly set foot on the plains of Arizona to fulfill the Navajo Indians, says: ” the connection to nature and wildlife is similar. It is a query of power and emotions shared by the individuals you meet whereas touring. Regardless of. And I am not going to begin making music that’s towards my tradition“.

Lylac in live performance quickly :

06-07-24: La Popote (Duo) – Waterloo
22-06-24: Music Competition – Namur – 3PM
27-06-24: House live performance (solo) – Brussels (extra data quickly)
20-07-24: FRANCOFOLIES DE SPA – Spa
13-09-24: La Spirale (acoustic trio) – NATOYE
22-11-24: cultural heart of Nassogne
18-01-25: Le P’tit cabaret de Temploux (duo)