Elie Zoé

At the end of 2023, Elie Zoé decided to end the hello future me tour after having to transpose all the songs several keys lower and admit to me that she could no longer sing any of the songs she had ever written.

The artist entered 2024 as if she were entering the kind of “mythical time” that animistic cosmogonies speak of: her usual vocal habits no longer worked, and she no longer knew how to present herself in public.

Elie Zoé decided to view this state of non-definition as an exciting opportunity to understand and rethink who she is and what she does. To do this, she had to create a safe space. Together with her almost-brother Louis Jucker, they built a studio out of recycled materials, and at the same time, the artist relearned how to sing with her own melodies. She drew inspiration from stories by anthropologists and biologists, and the lyrics that emerged spoke of change, of blurring boundaries, of connections between beings. All by themselves, the two recorded these songs and mixed them—pop melodies and rock instrumentation—with a new voice that she was able to record with joy.

In the fall, she publicly changed her name by removing a “mi” from her previous stage name. Her name is elie zoé.

This is her fourth album, even though it may sound like her first.

“It is home to a multitude of beings who invite us into a boundless zone of contact where the names we have given them can be questioned.” – Elie Zoé