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Johnny Hallyday - Ca Ne finira jamais 2008
Relaese: 27 Oct 08 | MP3 VBR~192 kbps | 69.1 MB
Genre: French-Rock'n'Roll

Ca ne finira jamais … Tel est le titre du nouvel album de Johnny Hallyday, dans les bacs le 27 octobre 2008, soit moins d’un an après Le Cœur d’un homme… Contrairement à son prédécesseur, cet opus enregistré entre Londres et Los Angeles s’annonce beaucoup plus rock et moins blues. D’ailleurs, son premier extrait est présenté par le label du chanteur comme "une symphonie rock épique emportée par des cordes martiales et un climat sombre et intense". Intitulé également Cela ne finira jamais, ce single a été écrit par Patrice Guirao et composé par Calogero. Réalisé par Philippe Uminski (Archive, Mass Hysteria, La Grande Sophie…), ce nouvel album contient également des chansons écrites par Francis Cabrel (Je m’arrête là), Christophe Maé (Etreinte fatale), Raphaël (Je n’appartiens qu’à toi), ou encore par son fils David Hallyday (Si mon cœur). On y retrouvera enfin la reprise de Unchained Melody, thème du film Ghost, en duo avec la chanteuse américaine Joss Stone.

Hélène Segara - Mon Pays C'Est La Terre (2008)
Label: Mercury | Nov 2008 | MP3 @ 192 kbps | 81.7
Genre: Pop/Rock

Biography by Evan C. Gutierrez
Hélène Ségara hails from the Mediterranean coast in the south of France. She was born in the small town of Sex-Four-les-Plages on February 26, 1971. Her young life was complicated by a rocky family life, and at 14, she left her mother's home to live with her father, at which time she began performing in clubs and bars along the Riviera. She built up a strong repertoire and fan base, venturing out to record her 1993 debut record, Loin. At the age of 25 the young singer decided to move to Paris in search of more fertile artistic soil. After some months she met producer Fabrizio Salvadori, who was impressed with her talent and professionalism. Through Salvadori, Ségara met a number of songwriters and producers with whom she would collaborate on her debut single "Je Vous Aime Adieu." The song was an immediate hit, garnering Ségara the support she would need for the release of her first professional full-length record, Coeur de Verre.

Montréal quartet Fly Pan Am returns from an extended hiatus and announces C'est ça, their first new album in 15 years.

Roger Biwandu est né à Bordeaux en 1972 de parents Congolais ( du Congo Kinshasa). Enfant, il a été influencé par la musique de ses sœurs qui écoutaient du rock blanc (Police, Toto). Il a pris les baguettes dès la fin des années 70 pour ne plus les lâcher depuis jouant aussi bien dun Funk, du Jazz, de la Pop, de la musique africaine, bref toutes musiques où la batterie est indispensable.

The protagonist of Saint-Saëns’ Proserpine, premiered at the Opéra-Comique on 14 March 1887, is no reincarnation of the ancient goddess, but a Renaissance courtesan well versed in culpable amours. According to the composer, she is ‘a damned soul for whom true love is a forbidden fruit; as soon as she approaches it, she experiences torture’. Yet for all the innocence of her rival Angiola, the unexpected happens: ‘It is the bloodthirsty beast that is admirable; the sweet creature is no more than pretty and likeable.’ Visibly enraptured by this delight in horror, Saint-Saëns indulges in unprecedented orchestral modernity, piling on the dissonances beneath his characters’ cries of rage or despair. He concluded thus: ‘Proserpine is, of all my stage works, the most advanced in the Wagnerian system.’ The least-known, too, and one which it was high time to reveal to the public, in its second version, revised in 1899.

Henriette de Coligny, Comtesse de La Suze, was more than just a woman of letters admired in her time, even by the very demanding Boileau. It was as a free woman that she married for love; after the death of her husband, a second one was forced on her, but, still a free woman, she demanded to be ‘de-married’! Surrounded by expert musicians, Marc Mauillon shows us that her précieux poetic universe mixes tenderness with the most unexpected strokes of audacity, so much so that her verse inspired many composers of the Grand Siècle – and after!