{"id":166803,"date":"2025-06-13T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/13\/folamour-felt-dead-inside-his-new-house-album-revived-him\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:15:46","slug":"folamour-felt-dead-inside-his-new-house-album-revived-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/13\/folamour-felt-dead-inside-his-new-house-album-revived-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Folamour \u2018Felt Dead Inside\u2019 \u2013 His New House Album Revived\u00a0Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tRoughly a decade ago, Bruno Boumendil, the French producer who goes by the name Folamour, perfected a distinct strain of soul-sampling house music, fragile yet fierce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tFor source material, he mined plush soul ballads from the late \u201970s and early \u201880s, dropping vocal snippets into productions that flew forward, so the charismatic voices seemed to be battling to maintain their stately dignity. He programmed his drums to start low in the mix before they reared up and lashed out, and used repetition to push tracks to dramatic climaxes, looping to lethal effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter an early run of success that included \u201cWhen U Came Into My Life\u201d (2016), \u201cYa Just Need 2 Believe in Yaself\u201d (2017) and \u201cI Know It Has Been Done Before\u201d (2018), Boumendil pivoted. Though he never stopped making dance music, he started sprinkling it in among neo-soul and hip-hop tracks. But in recent years, he has been battling a creative funk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI started to feel like everything was just a routine,\u201d Boumendil explains. \u201cI was doing gigs and creating music, but I wasn\u2019t really thinking about it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHis new album, Movement Therapy<\/em>, out June 13, comes after he forced himself to turn off autopilot, \u201cto actually think about what I\u2019m doing and be more than just someone going on stage and playing for two hours.\u201d The first song on the record is a spoken-word manifesto: \u201cFor a while, I stopped moving and I felt dead inside. My soul and body were losing their light and purpose, I felt devoid of love for myself. Then I understood that I needed to stay in movement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn search of the lost spark, Boumendil fully recommitted to the style that initially boosted his career. He calls Movement Therapy <\/em>his \u201cfirst proper house music album.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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