Recorded in concert during his 2002 tour in support of his A L'Envers album, Jean-Jacques Goldman's live backing outfit showed themselves capable of many surprises, pulling out nuggets from their catalog as well as showcasing the latest album's tracks. As is usual with live French offerings, the audience plays a prime role in the proceedings on Un Tour Ensemble…
L'événement de la rentrée. En effet, c'est le premier album solo de Jean-Jacques Goldman depuis dix ans, depuis Entre gris clair et gris foncé. Après avoir mis entre parenthèses le trio Fredericks-Goldman-Jones, Carole Fredericks a sorti un album de gospel et Michael Jones un album de blues. C'est au tour de Goldman de sortir le sien.
Having lent their esoteric funk-folk stylings to Prince & The Revolution during the late legend’s purple reign of the early-80s, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman left the band to pursue their own maverick musical path in 1986. Fan-favourite Eroica, their third and final album for Virgin Records, saw the duo hit a new creative peak – drawing on influences ranging from Sly Stone to Joni Mitchell to create a vibrant psychedelic-funk- folk sound that was uniquely their own.
In the late 80's, a group of friends who usually joined in an Amersfoort (the Netherlands) Pub to talk about music while taking some drinks shouted one day they wanted to form a band. After seven years Bert Heinen (one of the pub guys) had gathered enough material to release an album and he started to send some demos to different magazines and after a good response from Background Magazine and his lead to a contract with LaBraD'or records in 1997.
In 1998 with Bert in the Guitars, Keyboard and vocals plus Marien in drums and additional keyboards, Like Wendy releases "The Storm Inside" with a very melodic approach to Marillion, Pendragon, Pallas and IQ. The albums consisting of the demo tracks plus two new songs, was quite simple but pretty effective and received favorable comments of the critics…
Enquête journalistique s'appuyant sur des archives et des témoignages inédits pour découvrir ou redécouvrir le chanteur préféré des Français, sa trajectoire artistique, sa vie privée. …