Qui Existe

Pour élaborer Villes invisibles, dont Toufic Farroukh signe compositions et arrangements, celui qu'on peut qualifier de poète nomade a choisi de fermer les yeux et de rêver une ville pour tous. C'est là bien entendu une ville qui n'existe que dans le coeur de celles et ceux qui croient encore à la possibilité d'une vie sereine, où chacun pourra trouver sa place. Le titre du disque est emprunté au roman homonyme d'Italo Calvino dans lequel Kublai Khan, empereur des Tartares, se fait raconter les villes visitées lors de ses voyages par Marco Polo, des villes « faites de désirs et de peurs », aux secrets parfois bien cachés. Toufic Farroukh, inspirateur d'un répertoire ouvert et servi par une formation en équilibre, laisse ses saxophones chanter à l'unisson des autres instruments, sans jamais chercher à avoir le dernier mot ni même céder à la tentation de l'exercice solitaire.

Hadouk Trio - Utopies (2006) {Naïve NV 809411}
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© 2006 Hadouk Trio / Naïve | NV 809411
Jazz / World Fusion / Ethnic Fusion / Contemporary Jazz

Awarded "Best Band of the Year" at the Jazz Musical Awards 2007. Between Africa and Orient, between Jazz & World, Hadouk Trio introduces us to the land of dreams. After the success of "Shamanimal", "Now" and "Live FIP", "Utopies" is the third studio album of the trio. I can't get enough of this music! Somewhere between jazz, Afro-Cuban, ambient - it's hard to classify, but oh-so-easy on the ears. Three amazing musicians - Didier Malherbe, Loy Ehrlich, Steve Shehan - play 26 different instruments, mostly of traditional African origin. Hyptnotic rhythms and captivating original melodies.

Gilbert Becaud - Fais Moi Signe
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 213 MB | Full Artwork: 44 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: BMG Ariola # 260 329 | Country/Year: France 1989
Genre: Pop | Style: Chanson, Ballad, French Pop

"Known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his dynamic stage presence, Gilbert Bécaud was one of France's most popular singers during the 1950s and '60s, and enjoyed a career of more than four decades in show business. (…) his primary impact came as a singer. In an era when cabaret vocalists remained largely stationary on-stage, Bécaud's energetic showmanship drove his audiences into a frenzy, as they strove to match his boundless enthusiasm. He became a regular presence at Paris' legendary Olympia concert theater, where he performed over 30 times – more than any other artist. A notoriously heavy smoker, Bécaud succumbed to lung cancer in 2001, but kept performing almost right up to the end.

Belgian-born pop singer/songwriter Lara Fabian began singing, dancing, and taking piano lessons at a very young age and began formal music lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels at age eight. During her ten years of study there, Fabian started writing and performing her own songs, which were inspired as much by her classical vocal and music theory training as they were by Barbra Streisand and Queen…

Coming in at a tidy three hours and eight minutes, Donizetti’s huge Les Martyrs, composed (or adapted) for Paris in 1840, is here presented in its fullest conceivable form, including ballet and many passages cut right after the first performances. The opera was a reworking of his 1838 Poliuto, composed for the San Carlo in Naples, which had been banned by the king himself, since Christian martyrdom under the Romans was found unpleasant by the censors and the king was devoutly religious.