Video: Laure Briard returns with the breezy “Eu Voo,” featuring Brazilian psych-rock greats the Boogarins

Two years after the release of Coracão Louco, the album that launched her collaboration with Brazilian psych-rockers the Boogarins, French singer Laure Briard is back with Eu Voo, a Portuguese-language EP out on February 19, 2021, via Michel Records (Canada) that sees her reunite once again with the psych-rock greats.

Briard has shared the video for the EP’s title track, a breezy blast of sun-baked warmth just as we head into the winter months. Shot in Spain, the video was written and directed by the singer-songwriter Norma, who also collaborated with Briard on “Wonder/Wander.”

“‘Eu Voo’ is a song about crossing the ocean to find one’s beloved,” says Briard. “During the new recording session in January, I absolutely wanted to do the song while changing the initial arrangements: accelerate the tempo and make it more punchy, catchy. With the Boogarins in the chorus singing with me “estou a travessar o oceano,” I cross the sea!”

“Laure has been my friend for years, and she has always inspired in me images, settings,” says Norma. “I imagined her as an outlandish heroine in an American indie movie, tender and offbeat. I created a clip of my dreams, and I made for her bird wings, to fly far away from heartaches and pains of the soul, above the towns, overhead canyons, towards the blue horizon. We left the earthy Landes for the surreal landscape of the Bardenas desert, in Spain, where we found our American fantasy. We shot these images in a few hours, as the sun was going down. But as I was closing up the equipment, I felt the desert sand rise – I lifted my head and there before me, Laure was flying. I opened a warm San Miguel and watched her make circles around the twilight.”

Check out the video for “Eu Voo” below. The Eu Voo EP is out on February 19, 2021 via Michel Records.