It’s almost like the good old days of the French Touch: Gallic electro is enjoying a revival on the global scene thanks to old hands like Daft Punk, Martin Solveig, Bob Sinclar and Miss Kittin, and the new wave represented by C2C and Madeon.

In the run-up to the fifty-year anniversary of Edith Piaf’s death, Patricia Kaas kicks off a long list of celebrations with Kaas chante Piaf, a tribute album recorded with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Abel Korzeniowski, and devotes a whole stage show to the “Little Sparrow”.

The recently released Henri Salvador album, Tant de temps, presents eleven new tracks. Eight of them are previously unreleased songs dating from 1999, with one from 1991, and are two rearranged 1962 recordings. Four years after his death, Henri Salvador’s posthumous album also marks a return to his partnership with the arranger, producer and singer Benjamin Biolay, twelve years on from Chambre avec vue. RFI Musique met up with the singer’s last wife, Catherine Salvador.

Captain Kid, a Parisian, has released his first album 67 songs on Discograph label. The album is beautifully sculptured pop, hewn by an architect of sound, Julien Ribot.