Marie Flore Quelques Centimes

Since our meeting during our studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 2010 and a few years of concerts and exploration, we are happy to be able to concretize a project that has been close to our hearts for a long time: the recording of our first disc. We designed the Color Gradient program together, featuring works composed between the end of the 19th century and the present day. The program is a journey from France to America and from so-called classical music to almost improvised music. Color Gradient can be seen as a tribute to the incredible stylistic and aesthetic evolutions of music during the 20th century in terms of harmony, form and melodic freedom.

Les compilations sont souvent l'occasion de découvrir un artiste, et dans bien des cas, rassemblent quelques hits et des chansons mineures qui ne donnent pas envie d'aller au-delà. Le cas ne se pose pas pour Marie-Paule Belle dont le répertoire, phagocyté par le succès de « La Parisienne », gagne à être connu et parcouru d'album en album. Ce Best of permet de retrouver quelques perles des débuts, « Antonio Carlos Maria Brésil » (hommage à la bossa nova), « Quand nous serons amis », « Jersey Guernesey » ou « Je veux pleurer comme Soraya » et « Wolfgang et moi ».

Marie Jaëll probably represents the most authoritative and accomplished expression of the nineteenth century woman musician. In spite of her coming from the provinces and despite the heavy social restrictions imposed on artists of her gender, she nonetheless succeeded in being recognized as a virtuoso, a composer and as a teacher. Support from her husband – the Austrian pianist Alfred Jaëll – greatly contributed to the positive reception of her initial works for the piano, but it was by herself, armed with her talent and her resolve in the latter part of her life, that she faced up to the Parisian hurly-burly in which she proved herself to be one of its distinctive figures.

Quelques notes issues du contralto velouté de Marie-Nicole Lemieux suffisent pour tomber sous le charme. Timbre unique, sens inné de la ligne musicale, apprivoisement des textes de l’intérieur, charisme étonnant, aisance apparente dans tous les répertoires, présence scénique remarquable, la chanteuse semble posséder tous les atouts. La carrière de celle qui se produit maintenant sur les grandes scènes du monde entier devait prendre son envol en 2000, alors qu’elle remporte, presque coup sur coup, le Concours Joseph-Rouleau et le Concours musical international Reine Élisabeth de Belgique. Premiers jalons d’un parcours qui deviendrait rapidement stellaire. Nous la retrouvons ici dans une compilation regroupant certaines des plus belles pages enregistrées sous étiquette Analekta, signées Scarlatti, Handel, Vivaldi et Brahms.

The Oriental Jazz Project presents its new album "Proche Orience". Here are four musicians of the new generation of European Jazz, who are not afraid to mix Arab-Andalusian, and world music with modern jazz, to offer us an organic and sophisticated universe, resolutely modern… Created by the belgian-moroccan pianist Marie Fikry, the oriental Jazz project offers a repertoire of original compositions that creates a dialogue between Europe and North Africa. The oriental percussion occupies a key place as a soloist, while the piano, echoes like a Oud instrument, which offer the Oriental touch to the project.

Homelands – A musical voyage into the heart of a rich polyphonic repertoire born out of the union between folklore and art music during the 19 th and 20 th centuries.

Producer extraordinaire John Morales returns to BBE Music, celebrating the life and work of R&B / soul legend Teena Marie with a double album full of brand new remixes, lovingly crafted from the original studio tapes, entitled ‘Love Songs & Funky Beats’.