Daft Love

The words are repeated here like a mantra: ‘j'ai pas le bonheur’. And the more often they are heard, the more they sound like a spell of melancholy. The music rocks like a boat on the waves, and inside there is emptiness after the one who went swimming ‘without me’. It seems simple: a broken heart, loneliness, shadows of the past. But the further you go, the more you feel not tragedy, but a strange game with your own pain.

There is a slight irony in this: saying ‘there is no happiness’ hundreds of times and almost laughing, because the denial already sounds like a chorus, like the familiar rhythm of everyday life. And in the finale, there is a chuckle, as if an admission: yes, there is no happiness, but you can still dance to this beat.

Performed by: L.E.J

Composer: L.E.J, Christopher Colless

Cello: Juliette Somany

Programming: Juliette Somany, Antonin Fresnaux, Si Cole

Keyboards: Juliette Soman, Si Cole

Guitar: Juliette Soman

Mixing and mastering: Marcus Linon

Video production: Kourtrajmeuf | Graphics: Ilian Kaukab