In 2007, Aurélien Merle invited Jean-Daniel Botta and Philippe Crab to share the stage in a bar near Paris. They did not know each other but they liked each other's songs. This would be the beginning of a long companionship and a series of encounters, with Léonore Boulanger, Antoine Loyer, then Marion Cousin, Borja Flames, Benjamin Petit Delor, Vincent Moon, Loup Uberto and the group Bégayer. From this group of friends would come the idea of creating a record label together, a sort of self-managed record company, a way of organizing their own independence. With in mind the historic adventure of Pierre Barouh's Saravah , whom Aurélien Merle would meet a few years later, and in homage to a song by Dick Annegarn, they created the label Le Saule in September 2008.

 

In 2025, the Le Saule label continues its path and presents a catalog of nearly 60 albums available on vinyl, CD, and cassettes, distributed worldwide. After beginnings in a folk and French-speaking vein, each member has gradually taken Le Saule into new territories, more rock, more electronic, mixing languages, origins, blurring styles.