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Marc Vallee Trio
Contemporary Jazz - Released April 1, 2003 | Fidelio Musique
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Les choses de la vie
Marc Berthoumieux
Jazz - Released May 20, 2022 | Sous la ville
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Chaos and a Dancing Star
Marc Almond
Pop - Released January 31, 2020 | BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
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What do you get when you cross a torch song with Nietzsche? Chaos and a Dancing Star. The title of Marc Almond’s 24th album is in fact inspired from this phrase from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star”. Chaos can birth creativity and can lead to a positive and brilliant feeling. It’s this double-edged feeling that runs through the 13 tracks written composed with the former Soft Cell member, in tandem with Chris Braide (Sia, Lana Del Rey, Halsey…). One of the most emblematic songs of the dichotomic philosophy of the album is without a doubt Hollywood Forever, the name of the famous cemetery to the stars in Los Angeles. Under the shining and utopian surface of Hollywood hides a certain decadence represented by that place. But ghosts seem to continue inspiring artists, and Marc Almond is certainly one of them. The star mentioned by Nietzsche is often expressed through music, notably on the tracks Slow Burn Love, Cherry Tree and Fighting a War. With their playful pop-rock beats and melodies in the major key, they form brilliant counterpoints to the dark romanticism of the lyrics. The musical positivity is very often accentuated by generous arrangements which blend piano with sparkling layers of Mellotron, the result accompanied with a generous dose of camp as is often the way with Almond. The opening song of the album, Black Sunrise is one of the highlights of the singer’s entire career. The fluttering flute in Lord of Misrule is another highlight, as well as the vibrant choirs which interject at various moments over the course of the whole album. Finally, Marc Almond is not only a fan of the golden age of Hollywood, but is also clearly influenced by aesthetic and horrific images from the Italian giallo genre of cinema. There is a certain level of homage to this style of film, including a celesta solo in the finale, the melody of which is a heartfelt nod to the soundtrack of Dario Argento’s film Suspiria. © Nicolas Magenham/Qobuz
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Rootless Cosmopolitans
Marc Ribot
Jazz - Released January 1, 1990 | Universal-Island Records Ltd.
Rootless Cosmopolitans was guitarist Marc Ribot's early and quixotic stab at commercial semi-success, a quasi-rock band filtered through free jazz and noise. Clarinetist Don Byron shares the lead instrumental work with Ribot and the two, backed by the imaginative keyboards of Anthony Coleman, certainly make for a unique ensemble sound, far more thorny than your standard rock fare. They do include covers of a couple of boomer classics, Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" (featuring a harsh backing of Ribot's disaffected vocals) and a solo Ribot rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Indeed, harshness, even a certain sourness, is one of the abiding qualities of this disc. Fans who know Ribot from the beautiful surf-inspired tones he generates in his work with John Zorn on both the latter's soundtracks and in the Bar Kokhba ensemble won't find such dulcet sounds here. Some cuts, like "The Cocktail Party," get into a bit of a Captain Beefheart-ian mode, others are reminiscent of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time groups. Led by Coleman's spacy organ, the group gels in a pleasantly incoherent manner on "Nature Abhors a Vacuum Cleaner" and Byron, on bass clarinet, leads them through a tender reading of "Mood Indigo." There is a decent amount of enjoyable music here, but it's hit and miss, very much a grab-bag affair. All of the musicians involved went on to do finer work later in their careers, though, so what value Rootless Cosmopolitans retains tends toward the historical.© Brian Olewnick /TiVo
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Pop - Released May 25, 2023 | 3101915 Records DK