FOLAMOUR
FOLAMOUR
For a decade now, Folamour has performed more than 600 dates around the world.
Folamour's musical experience and sensibility are diverse and accomplished. After playing drums, bass, guitar, and percussion, he worked with the Opéra national de Lyon and collaborated on projects ranging from house to jazz.
As a result, his songs are always marked by a rich musicality, imbued with romanticism, poetry, and emotion. A fan of classical music, funk, and disco, Folamour brings a unique touch to music. After several EPs, he decided in 2017 to release his first album, conceived and composed around the notion of balance, “umami.” This debut album had a resounding effect and cemented his place among the artists to watch. He returned in 2019 with a second album, “Ordinary Drugs,” a new concept album written as a story in which each song evokes a key to happiness. The year 2019 also marked a turning point in his career with his boiler room at the Fly Open Air festival in Scotland, which has accumulated more than 6 million views to date.
Two years later, Folamour released the album “The Journey,” an autobiographical account of years spent between airports and stages, London, France, and the rest of the world, between crowds and solitude, between highs and lows. An album composed between metropolises and no man's land, inspired by memorable moments that greatly surprised and touched the artist. To express all these emotions, Folamour put aside samples and computers to focus on writing lyrics, recording strings and brass, drums, and vocals—his own on several songs—in order to be as close to the moment as possible. There are no limits in terms of format or genre, just total freedom to choose the right tool for the job.
This album is the sum of chance and encounters, a rite of passage in both form and substance, the story of a life with all its joys and trials, as much in its writing and production as in its message. “The Journey” mixes contemporary sadness and the isolation of artists with wonder at the simple pleasures of life and the discoveries it brings. It is neither a joyful story nor a sad and disillusioned tale; it is the sum of all that and more.
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