Barely a year after its release in Quebec, Robert Charlebois’ new album, Tout est bien, is available in France at last. Coming a decade after the spare Doux Sauvage, the collection brings us twelve new symphonically orchestrated songs that already sound like classics. RFI Musique met up with the Canadian singer.
Ten years ago, Rodolphe Burger borrowed the expression "This is a Velvet Underground song that I’d like to sing" from the singer Nico for a track on Meteor Show Extended. Now the alchemist of French rock is reactivating his Dernière Bande label with a new album that pays a faithful tribute to the cult group from Warhol’s Factory.
After the release of Infréquentable in 2008, Bénabar put a hold on his usual writing-singing-composing career to focus on film then theatre. Now he has returned to music with Les Bénéfices du doute, a disconcerting sixth album that has dropped the familiar brass to leave way for the banjo and the harmonica.
It’s something he’d wanted to do for a while, and now Alain Souchon has fulfilled a dream in bringing out a new CD to help children suffering from cancer. He chose to interpret the songs that marked his own childhood: tunes that have stayed in his mind, that he sang to his own son and still hums under the shower. For the title, he chose A cause d’elles, since it’s because of these songs that Alain Souchon has become what he is.
After earning her stripes with the Super Rail Band in Bamako, in late 2009 Inna Modja released a first soul-focused album underlined by simple touches of folk, pop and funk. Her new compilation Love Revolution champions the art of loving yourself and others. The pop and soul are still just as present, but with an additional dancefloor dimension.
Four years have flown since Thomas Dutronc made a splash when he sold over 600,000 copies of his first album, Un manouche sans guitare. After an intense 600-date tour comes his new, highly awaited compilation, Silence on tourne, on tourne en rond.
A good dose of sunshine to brighten up any dark thoughts, and a feel-good factor untarnished by a soupcon of melancholy: the new album by Maurane, Fais-moi une fleur, was recorded in New York with some of the best American musicians, and has just what it takes to keep that summer swing.
It’s just over a year since Benjamin Biolay released the hit double album, La Superbe. His new collection of music and songs, Pourquoi tu pleures? was inspired by the film of the same name directed by Katia Lewkovicz and starring Biolay himself.
There are times when you need a helping hand to reach a new milestone. To put together his fourth album, Nimissa, Guinean singer and musician Ba Cissoko was assisted by reputed producer Philippe Eidel, who has managed to draw out each song’s potential and assure some ship-shape production.
La nuit c'est tous les jours performer : Julien Clerc album : "Fou peut-être" label : EMI country : France year : 2011 credits : ALEX BEAUPAIN/JULIEN CLERC
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