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"A living Saint Laurent", of Alain Chamfort

(On download platforms.) Livre-disque éditions Albin Michel)

Year 2010 year Yves Saint Laurent An upcoming exhibition, a book-sum of the drawings of the couturier and this album concept of French song dandy Alain Chamfort... tributes to the great YSL Designer are could not be more varied. This new musical project which tells the life of a child of Oran in more than one surprise. Initiated by Pierre - Dominique Burgaud ("rose the soldier"), "A living Saint Laurent" traces, one to one, the stages of this journey fashion and strass. "Chamfort plate fragile voice on a destiny: the first sketches, the fall of the star, the meeting with Pierre Bergé or"carnivorous dresses"." The right of Dior ", potential tube, lips without evil, while as the final" farewell Mr. Saint Laurent ", is sober, without speech." It welcomes this beautiful exercise, necessarily style.

"Pieces for piano opus 116-119", by Johannes Brahms Philippe Cassard (piano)

(1 CD agreement)

End specialist of Debussy, Philippe Cassard offers a full year Chopin Brahms disc. Is there an elegant way to avoid the requirements of the calendar and labels. It must primarily understand as an echo to his Schubert recordings where already sounded a subjective and desperate romance. The pianist is indeed "the ball of pain that drags Brahms" at the end of his life when he composed his ultimate pages for piano. If it doesn't increasing it by a massive game, a sentimental phrasing or a compact sound, it leaves no doubt about the confused nature of this book of 20 titles it flakes the more often a gesture as to better reveal the wealth. The finger flexible when he sings, lightweight when he whispered, but hand closes when it should animate keyboard to orchestral energy, Philippe Cassard shows the sensitive confidant of a Brahms who plays the fall colours and light with the same art as Rembrandt.

"the Alphabet of Hurricanes", of Tom McRae

(1 CD Cooking Vinyl) Concerts in Paris (La Maroquinerie) 31 March and 1 April in Lille, France (Le Grand Mix)

Tom McRae is restless, but her fans remain loyal to him since his first magic award-winning album of readily by a Mercury Prize. After a few trips between his native England and the United States, Tom yelled "inch" and moved to a microphone to gather her spirits. He bought a banjo, a ukulele, a mandolin, an old piano and a few other junk on eBay and reflected on what meant this wandering. It is summarized in the title "The Alphabet of hurricanes". Explanation: the hurricanes are named in alphabetical way: "A" for the first of the year and so on. In 2009, for the first time, it took decline two complete alphabets to account for the phenomenon A phrase from the song "the Alphabet of Hurricanes" (which is not finally on the album but has inspired) said: "the winds of an alphabet of hurricanes can push the Wanderer to return home". Tom, he returned to offer a collection of nostalgic, sometimes Jack-o'-lanterns, melodies that highlight the poignant fragility of his voice.

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"Shangri-La Tunkashi - La", of Médéric Collignon

(1 CD more far Music/Harmonia Mundi)

While outstanding exposure that the Cité de la musique in Paris devoted to Miles Davis has closed its doors in January, a luminous disc, signed by trumpeter Médéric Collignon, reminds us how the electric music of Miles remains modern and vibrant. He is remembered for recording the big band of Laurent Cugny "Miles electric". Pianist, connoisseur of Miles and Gil Evans (fantasy composer of several masterpieces of trumpeter and arranger), had delivered a rather wise reading of this period of the late 1960s and early 1970s where Miles reimagined (once again) the jazz by changing the colors by the introduction of electronic instruments (synthesizers)(, guitars, bass...). Médéric Collignon, in the company of Franck Woeste (Fender Rhodes), Frédéric Chiffoleau (double bass and bass) and Philippe Gleizes (drums) deliver us their version - often enfiévrée - "radiant" compositions of Miles. You can say: there is a fire.

"Plastic beach", of Gorillaz

(1 CD Parlophone - EMI)

Return to fanfare (rap-electro-pop) of the virtual band Gorillaz with "Plastic beach", "beach" end of the shimmering and high-tech world. The manga training invented by the little prince of the "brit pop" Damon Albarn has concocted a third State of the art and melancholic album with guests (as in the usual): Bobby Womack and Mos Def for the supersingle "Pen", Lou Reed ("Some Kind of Nature"), Mick Jones and Paul Simonon ex-Clash ("Plastic Beach")... Dionysian mixing fine melodies and rhythms learned always work as well. Gorillaz and his musicians of "cartoon" continue their conquest of the planet by expanding their influences (Arab, electro French and even classic...). Good cool travel, fun, and cosmic music of today.