She has won acclaim and countless awards for her body-tapping, raspberry-blowing music. Now she has spent 15 years making her boldest work yet \u2013 an epic about birth, infancy and adolescence<\/p>\n
It took Camille 15 years to make her new album. The Sound of Milk is a triple record, each part documenting a distinct stage of the French musician\u2019s experience raising two kids with composer Cl\u00e9ment Ducol: Naissance is from 2015, Enfance 2020 and Adolescence 2025. She could have put each one out when it was complete, she says, but realised she wasn\u2019t ready. Her son and daughter, now teenagers, \u201cwere too little, and I would have felt too exposed to talk about it because it\u2019s about beauty, joy, it\u2019s very deep,\u201d says Camille, calling from her home in the French countryside. \u201cI needed to be able to step back and look at the journey. I needed to feel grounded enough to release it in a world that does not respect children and mothers.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the surface, much of Camille\u2019s sixth album may sound very sweet. Naissance features no real instruments \u2013 it\u2019s essentially a field recording of raising babies, all gurgles and found sound. Known for her vocal experimentation \u2013 beatboxing, raspberries \u2013 Camille saw it as a manifesto freeing singing from how disembodied it can be in pop. \u201cAs a woman, music is about a way of living,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s about breathing, being with my kids, singing along with what\u2019s going on around me in an open world.\u201d She calls Enfance a \u201cpocket musical\u201d: similarly atmospheric, it\u2019s full of the kinds of ditties parents make up when they\u2019re teaching kids about stairs and the washing machine \u2013 raising everyday maternal expressions up as art, I suggest. \u201cI like what you\u2019re saying,\u201d she says. \u201cAll families are pieces of art. We create our values, our worlds, a way of talking to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
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