Reserection EP

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Reserection

EP by Saint Etienne and Étienne Daho
Released	June, 1995
Recorded	1995
Genre	Electronica
Label	Virgin
Producer(s)	Saint Etienne, Étienne Daho

Reserection EP was a 1995 release by French pop star Étienne Daho, working alongside English dance-pop band Saint Etienne. It was only released in France and Japan.

The "resurrection" of the title was a response to rumours at the time that Daho was HIV-positive, or even that he had already died.^[1] The opening track, "Reserection", puts the matter to rest as Daho states that he will rise from his "cendres fiction" (fictitious ashes) "encore et encore" (again and again).^[2]

The only English song was "Accident", a reworked version of Daho's 1984 French-language hit single "Weekend à Rome", with original English lyrics. Daho's speech from "Reserection" is also reprised within the song.

Daho only released "Jungle Pulse" as a single at first, but later Eurodance producer Steve Rodway produced a remix of "Accident" that became "He's on the Phone", released as the single from Saint Etienne's first greatest hits compilation, Too Young to Die - The Singles. Daho's vocal sample from "Accident" was retained, and the single was billed as "Saint Etienne featuring Etienne Daho". Daho also appears in the song's music video and joins the band in their performance of the song on Top of the Pops. Daho would also go on to perform the original "Weekend à Rome" with the instrumental tracks from "He's on the Phone", in a performance on the French edition of Star Academy.

The band later worked with Daho on the single "Le Premier Jour", from his greatest hits compilation Singles.