Alain Souchon sort « Ecoutez D'où Ma Peine Vient », son douzième album studio en carrière orné de onze chansons originales, dont plusieurs sont inspirées de la crise mondiale actuelle. Disponible en digital et physiquement ce 1er décembre sur Virgin Music, ce nouveau projet engagé du parrain de la chanson française a été réalisé sous la houlette de Renaud Létang (Gonzales, Manu Chao, Feist, Katerine, Micky Green, Bernard Lavilliers), qui avait d'ailleurs déjà oeuvré sur « C'est Déjà Ca » en 1993, selon l'AFP. Outre le très retentissant premier extrait « Parachute Doré », « Ecoutez D'où Ma Peine Vient » a également été introduit par le premier single du même nom, ayant été envoyé aux radios adultes début octobre.
C’est toujours la même chose quand un artiste meurt. On ne sait jamais ce qu’il faut aller chercher au fond de soi pour vivre un peu moins mal cette nouvelle à la con. Des sons, des images, des émotions, des souvenirs, des rencontres ? Tout cela mélangé, sans doute.
Avec Alain Bashung, on pourrait aussi ouvrir le dictionnaire du laudatif. Plus grand, plus fort, plus haut, plus admirable, plus magnifique, plus extraordinaire, plus mieux, plus encore puisque affinités.
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Des textes, ici et ailleurs, à la beauté hermétique, à l’humeur noire, au sourire en cicatrice. De l’ironie, toujours. L’humour d’un certain désespoir sans doute. Et de la poésie qui mêle la trivialité des jeux de mots souriants et l'évocation de mondes intimes." Eric Libiot (L'Express)
Again evoking his time as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, Canadian pianist Alain Lefèvre releases a second album of French music. Paris Memories, which follows My Paris Years, comprises music by Franck, Debussy and the man who taught Alain Lefèvre composition: Pierre Max Dubois. A pupil of the prolific and multi-faceted Darius Milhaud, Dubois (1930-1995) wrote music that is full of spirit and wit. Paris Memories culminates in a four-movement piano sonata by Dubois, composed in 1984 and dedicated to none other than Alain Lefèvre. “While a student at the Paris Conservatoire I had memorable encounters with great figures in the world of music,” says the pianist. “Of particular significance was the opportunity to get to know my teacher Pierre Max Dubois, and I’m profoundly moved to have finally been able to record his piano sonata.”
Alain Pinsolle is a vibraphonist, pianist, accordionist, percussionist, improviser and French composer. For several years, he has directed a quartet of musicians performing a music infused with modern jazz that he named "Chtarbmusique". It is a combination of total improvisation and harmonic structure, melodic and organized rhythm that proposes a dimension of verbal and visual poetics, an attempt between the reflective and the spontaneous.
Alain Eckert was the guitarist of Art Zoyd between 1976-81, participating in some of the band’s masterworks like “Symphonie pour le jour” and “Generation sans futur”. The quartet is Alain Lecointre (Navadati) on bass, Patricia Dallio (Art Zoyd) on keyboards and Serge Bringolf (Strave) on drums. They play a jazz progressive mix with many classical, post-classical and improv influences. Compositions are built on complexity, inventiveness, imagination and the superb abilities of the musicians for precise, difficult, adventurous playing. Despite the absence of horns, violins, cellos etc… there is a superior acoustic sense prevailing due to the pure excellence of inspired piano & guitar. The reissue has 30 minutes of bonus, recorded live at the “A l’Ouest de la Grosne” club by Jacky Barbier, the same year.
Bancquart's gigantic six-part opus resonates with alien textures and aching lines. Suffused with intricately hewn microtonal music, each movement, scored differently, can stand alone as a unique work. This recording captures the integral premiere. Taken sequentially, each tableau seems the most remote outpost, the next unveiling something stranger still. Occasional passages throb with B-movie queasiness, yet the peculiar scales and tones make perfect sense. Bancquart isn't some kid discovering how funky it is to play between the keys: He's a master, effortlessly devising unbelievable sonorities…