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Shaka Ponk

Shaka Ponk

Rock - Released June 16, 2023 | tôt Ou tard

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Gabi Hartmann

Gabi Hartmann

Vocal Jazz - Released January 13, 2023 | Masterworks

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After selling out the Parisian jazz clubs on Rue des Lombards by word of mouth alone, Gabi Hartmann has stepped into the spotlight in recent years by opening for famous artists such as Jamie Cullum and Melody Gardot. She has now released her first album, which should consolidate her reputation as a young artist as it combines fresh inspiration with technical skill. Conceived in close collaboration with Jesse Harris (a New York guitarist, songwriter and producer renowned for his work with Norah Jones, Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux), this signature album gives Gabi Hartmann the opportunity to lay the foundations of her own artistic path and make every facet of it shimmer by exploring highly refined nuances. Gabi is a singer, composer, lyricist and arranger who can effortlessly switch from English to French (there’s even a Portuguese interlude!). Here, she offers a tempting glimpse into a halftone world that’s cottony by design, taking inspiration from contemporary cool (post)jazz (‘Buzzing Bee’) as well as sophisticated and timeless songs (‘Une Errante sur la terre’, ‘Mille Rivages’). She regularly flirts with a subtly deterritorialised Americana (‘I’ll Tell You Something, Baby’) and ‘exotic’ colours and rhythms (as heard on the magnificent cover of the West Indian classic ‘Maladie d’amour’). With her vibrant voice, warm, bright tone and slightly nonchalant phrasing, the French singer dives into subtle orchestrations that combine light choirs, laid-back rhythms, and the distant echoes of retro clarinets, ethnic flutes (the Sudanese Gandhi Adam) and bluesy guitars (Julian Lage and Abdoulaye Kouyaté). Gabi takes the listener on a journey through dreamland with this release. © Stéphane Ollivier/Qobuz
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Stup Forever

Stupeflip

Alternative & Indie - Released August 26, 2022 | Dragon Accel 2

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Les Autres c’est nous

Bigflo & Oli

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released June 23, 2022 | Universal Music Division One Records

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Paysage

Véronique Gens

Classical - Released March 15, 2024 | Alpha Classics

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Live au Cirque d'Hiver

Christophe Maé

French Music - Released March 18, 2022 | Parlophone (France)

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Ces gens-là

Jacques Brel

French Music - Released January 1, 1964 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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En noires et blanches (Parce que - La Collection)

Louis Chedid

French Music - Released March 11, 2022 | [PIAS] Le Label

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Des roses & des orties

Francis Cabrel

French Music - Released March 31, 2008 | Columbia

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A popular singer/songwriter in France for the past three decades, Francis Cabrel is also a bit of a pastoral recluse, preferring to spend his days with his family in his hometown village of Astaffort, rather than in the media spotlight of Paris. Unsurprisingly, his studio output has become less than prolific in recent years, with intervals of four or five years between records. His artistry and popularity, however, have not suffered in the least, as evident in 2008's Des Roses et Des Orties. The new songs offer few surprises for either Cabrel fans or detractors, other than a keener emphasis on social issues. This is also reflective of a general trend in France, where events such as the 2007 election of Sarkozy, or the heated debate on immigration, brought politics back to the forefront, both in the media and in everyday life. Cabrel, a father of two who recently adopted a Vietnamese child, is particularly sensitive to the plight of immigrant children, as well as to the ever widening gap between the richer and poorer regions of the planet, the subject of "African Tour," "Mademoiselle L'aventure," and "Les Cardinaux en Costume," among others. Furthermore, Cabrel criticizes institutionalized religion in "La Chêne Liège" and artists and songwriters like himself ("Des Gens Formidables") for feigning sympathy for the poor but doing very little about it. Most of the songs set Cabrel's soft spoken voice against his acoustic guitar, reinforced by bluesy electric guitar pickings, or stately piano accompaniment. A few tracks add a discreet ethnic flavor for variety, such as the tasteful flamenco guitar in the opening "La Robe et L'échelle." The inclusion of three covers, by Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and J.J. Cale, translated and sung in French by Cabrel, seems less fortunate as these songs feel somewhat out of place in the more somber context of this record. A typically well-crafted Cabrel album, Des Roses et Des Orties reached the top of the French charts upon its release.© Mariano Prunes /TiVo
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Néère (Hahn, Duparc, Chausson)

Véronique Gens

Mélodies (French) - Released October 16, 2015 | Alpha Classics

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The soprano Véronique Gens might be thought a natural for the French art song repertoire. But Néère, taking its title from the opening song by Reynaldo Hahn (the reference is to the Greek nymph known in English as Neaera, "white as a fine marble statue, with her rosy cheeks"), is one of just a few albums in the genre she has released. Get hold of it without delay: it's gorgeous. The French mélodie is not a high-register genre, and for a singer like Gens these songs reside in the lower part of her range, where she now brings just a bit of sultriness and smoke with devastating effect. The program includes three composers of the late 19th century who are closely related but contrasting in their individual styles: in the words of annotator Nicolas Southon "the melancholic Henri Duparc, the elegiac Ernest Chausson, the charmer Reynaldo Hahn." You could really dip in anywhere, but sample track 15, Hahn's A Chloris, for a taste of what Gens can do. The playing of accompanist Susan Manoff seems welded to Gens' vocal line, which even with all the voluptuous, erotic beauty has a kind of steely concentration that grows stronger and more impressive as the album proceeds. An absolute gem.© TiVo
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Les gens passent, le temps reste

Glauque

Alternative & Indie - Released September 15, 2023 | AUGURI LABELS

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Les beaux dégâts

Francis Cabrel

French Music - Released May 17, 2004 | Columbia

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Varsovie, L'Alhambra, Paris

Saez

French Music - Released April 21, 2008 | Wagram Music - Cinq 7

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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Vincent Dumestre

Classical - Released January 14, 2022 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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La vie moderne

La Grande Sophie

French Music - Released October 7, 2022 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Carmen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Nicholas Britell

Film Soundtracks - Released April 21, 2023 | Sony Classical

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Les gens qui sentent bon c'est cool

Scaro

French Music - Released December 31, 2019 | Scaro

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Cinquième as

MC Solaar

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released March 13, 2001 | Sentinel ouest

Le chanteur

Daniel Balavoine

French Music - Released April 1, 1978 | Universal Music Division Barclay

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Nuits

Véronique Gens

Classical - Released April 3, 2020 | Alpha Classics

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As the symbiosis between the art of the poet and that of the composer, the French mélodie became the jewel of the salons of the ‘Belle Époque’. By placing a string quartet and a piano around the singer, Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle, Lekeu’s Nocturne and Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson oscillate between chamber musical intimacy and orchestral ambition. Alongside these famous pioneering pieces, this programme devised by the Palazzetto Bru Zane champions a return to the art of transcription, so popular in the nineteenth century, with the aim of expanding the repertory for voice, strings and piano in order to unearth some forgotten treasures. Hence Hahn, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, La Tombelle, Ropartz, Louiguy and Messager all appear in a programme whose guiding thread is the emotions of nocturnal abandonment: the charms of twilight, the trajectory of dreams, the terror of nightmare or the exhilaration of festive occasions. Alexandre Dratwicki has made these arrangements in the style of the nineteenth century. Appropriately enough, the programme ends with La Vie en rose, for this music offers a kaleidoscope of all the colours of human feeling. The texture of solo strings and piano sets Véronique Gens’s incomparable storytelling artistry in a new ligh. © Alpha Classics