Copains 3.5

Léo Ferré (1916-1993) was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death. He released some forty albums over this period, composing the music and the majority of the lyrics. He released many hit singles, particularly between 1960 and the mid-seventies. Some of his songs have become classics of the French chanson.

Georges Brassens was a French singer-songwriter and poet. He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems, as well as texts from many others such as Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, or Louis Aragon. In 1967, he received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the Académie française. Between 1952 and 1976, he recorded fourteen albums that include several popular French songs such as Les copains d'abord, Chanson pour l'Auvergnat, La mauvaise réputation, and Mourir pour des idées. Most of his texts are black humour-tinged and often anarchist-minded.

Ah nostalgie, quand tu nous tiens… Et on s’y abandonne avec volupté dans le dernier album du trio féminin Juniore, intitulé Ouh là là. La chanteuse et guitariste Anna Jean y fait résonner sa voix en nous rappelant les stars de la musique yéyé des années 60. Ses comparses, Agnès Imbault au clavier et Swanny Elzingre à la batterie, viennent compléter ce paysage musical dans lequel elles n’ont finalement pas vécu. Peu importe, une bonne partie du public non plus… Avec la collaboration du producteur Samy Osta, le trio aime agrémenter ces sonorités nostalgiques d’un océan de réverb’. Et le plongeon vaut le coup !