Writing on her Facebook page she fills in some of the song's back story: "Planet Earth, 2020. Our planet is under threat. Enormous spaceships approach, and in their wake a Shadow grows, sowing the seeds of fear, terror and pain."
Cette Ombre is the first track from her forthcoming EP Mars on Earth 2020, written and produced in her home studio during the lockdown.
For the forthcoming EP, she elaborates: "2020. Planet Earth is under attack. Faced with an unknown invader, Humanity is experiencing an unprecedented shift. What will remain of it ?"
Her last release was the soundtrack to the movie The Jesus Rolls, a film that was both a remake of the French 70s film Les Valseuses and a spin-off from Coen Brothers cult comedy The Big Lebowski.
It's easy to see the 80s apocalyptic science fiction references in Emilie Simon's new work, but the reflection of the strangeness of our present times shines through. Whether it's alien invaders or a virus, there's a recognition that change is afoot and things are going to be very different in the very near future.
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