Eloïsa Matheu and Francesc Llimona left for East Africa at the end of the dry season, when the Blue Wildbeest begin their migration south. They recorded in the big National Parks: Maasai Mara, Amboseli and Kakuru Lake in Kenya, then Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Manyara in Tanzania. The concerts which are successively recorded, aim at recreating the general atmosphere of these landscapes. Different biotopes fuse into one another. Birds are everywhere and sounds interweave. Patrick FReMEAUX
Born into a family of famous gypsy musicians in Belgium, Tcha Limberger is a violinist whose sincerity is as attractive as his virtuosity when he wields his bow. Noting that gypsy jazz had an American matrix — threads of New Orleans and Swing — he took a closer interest in the original music of the Hungarian gypsies known as Tziganes who settled in Central Europe. He went to Hungary for a year and a half, an initiatory voyage on which he met with the best musicians, also learning Hungarian. In 2009 he founded the Gypsy Budapest Orchestra with support from Dave Kelbie, the great British producer of Evan Christopher, Fapy Lafertin etc. Today, Limberger’s violin brilliantly reincarnates Magyar nota, the great popular repertoire of Hungary (between folk and classical music) that had gone into decline. Tcha Limberger is internationally recognized: he triumphed at the 2015 opening of World Music Expo (Womex), and received France Musique’s World Award at Babel Med the same year. This recording have been nominated in the Songlines Music Awards 2016. Augustin BONDOUX & Patrick FReMEAUX
Santos Chillemi is travels between three musical roads: Argentina, jazz and classical. On this CD he pays homage to the traditional South-American repertoire. Features la cumparsita today / Arraigado / Chacarera / Malambo / Milonga de los recuerdos / Besame mucho / La flor de la canela / Tomo y obligo / El dia que me quieras / El choclo burlon / La quimera o Balderrama / Alfonsina / La pome-ña / La cumparsita today (radio version) and others.
(2-CD set) If John Lee Hooker is a wise man of today, the remarkable debut of his commercial career must not be forgotten. He was once a sort of crazy young dog, the heart-throb of manu a dame who heard him play in the cabarets of Detroit's black ghetto. Young and wild... This boxed set depicts the first musical years of one of the biggest names in the history of the Blues. Includes a 24 page booklet with both French and English notes.
(2-CD set) For the first time ever, the Sound Archives Institute allows us to listen to the original recordings of one of the greatest symbolic events of the 20th century - the sinking of the Titanic and offers a sequential presentation on two compact discs, covering the historical accounts as given by surviving eyewitnesses. These sound documents, issued for the very first time, come complete with a substantial 88-page booklet. Moreover, for the first time since 1912, we can hear the authentic sound of the Titanic's whistle! NB : During the Titanic's transatlantic crossing in April 1912, both French and English speaking passengers were aboard. Half of the accounts are in French and the other half in English. English versions of the French accounts are provided in the booklet for added comprehension.
“When Georges sings you can hear kisses fly through the air.” Frederic DARD, quoted by Janine Guetary Dany Lallemand has compiled three CDs of material which cover Georges Guetary's early career including his great hits. From his first, pre-war recordings to the days when he was a star, both in France (“La route fleurie”) and internationally (“An American In Paris”), this selection comes as a timely reminder that Georges Guetary was a key-personality in the world of French Chanson and music-hall.
Claude COLOMBINI
Didier and Francis Lockwood have been fixtures of the French jazz scene for thirty years, but their Brothers album, originally recorded for the Ames label in 2008, featured them together for the first time. Francis Lockwood's piano and the violin of his brother Didier function together in perfect alchemy here, the only instruments present on the recording. The result is an intimate, delicate dive into a universe of their own design where their talents, complicity and connivance are shaped by the closeness of their relation as brothers.
2-CD set contains 38 comic songs by Mary Buldoc, whose works are now studied in universities. Indeed, historians prefer her version of everyday life to that described in the press of the period. However, Mary was simply describing what she saw around her, without premise and unaffected by her reputation.
"Popular song is as significant and as important as the most beautiful pieces of work. Through songs which are and have been sung by the masses, we may discover the feelings and emotions of a nation, both in times of trouble and happiness" Maurice CHEVALIER, 1947. This second 2-CD set anthology features Maurice Chevalier's recordings from 1930 to 1949. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.
As a music laboratory of great influence in the southern states of America, New Orleans was instrumental in the development of American popular music, and soul in particular. Fantastic New Orleans artists and producers mixed religious and secular music, Indian and Caribbean sounds, voodoo, Jazz and Zydeco… Their soul music was born out of the fusion between those influences and the language and emotions of Gospel, creating a universal idiom that stood the world on its head. In the 32 page booklet accompanying this essential anthology, Bruno Blum provides a commentary of the metamorphosis of Negro spirituals, blues and rock into pure New Orleans soul, thanks to such legendary artists as Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas, Snooks Eaglin or Eddie Bo. Patrick FReMEAUX
These recordings collected in situ by Francois Jouffa in 2015, allow us to listen to the compelling wealth of the traditional music of Southern India. This classical music from the lower part of the Indian subcontinent, called carnatic music, has age-old bases. This release contains Kathakali songs ( from the Sanskrit Theater) and ragas performed by masters of the veena (ancient Indian lute with plucked strings), temple music and groups of percussion. It is a seizing musical overview, a preeminent testimony of the Indian immaterial heritage.
Stan Laferriere’s Big One brings everything in jazz history back to life, from the fi rst signs of ragtime to contemporary fusion in a tasty record you can qualify as one half tribute, one half stylistic exercise. Because while each title on the album is a Laferriere composition, they have that familiar sound which could turn them into standards as great the music they recall. Educational value, yes, but apart from any questions of period or style, this is a jazz orchestra combining power with nuance, and its precision makes it stand out thanks to Stan Laferriere’s unique feel for arrangements and his skill in instrumentation.
“Bird was like the sun, giving off the energy we drew from him… In any musical situation, his ideas just bounded out, and his inspired anyone who was around.” Max ROACH
The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Fremeaux & Associes by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.
(2-CD set) T-Bone Walker was immensely successful after the war and strongly influenced the evolution of the blues. He was also one of the great pioneers of the electricguitar, perfecting a clear and flowing style which influenced blues and rock guitarists, from B.B. King and Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown to Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. This boxed edition traces the first part of R-Bone Walker’s career, from when he led Blind Lemon Jefferson through the streets of Dallas to his national acclaim. Includes a 24 page booklet with both French and English notes.
(2-CD set) Fats Domino, Little Richard, Bill Haley, Big Mama Thornton and Lloyd Price were soon to be considered as the pioneers of the genre and were already paving the way for Rock’n’Roll as the music of the decade, assisted by others, less celebrated but equally talented. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.
« Charlie Parker did all the things I would like to do and more – he really had a genius, see. He could do things and he could do them melodiously so that anybody, the man in the street, could hear – that’s what I haven’t reached, that’s what I’d like to reach. » John COLTRANE
Luc Ferry is a major philosopher of our times. Also known for his political action (he was the minister for Education between 2002 and 2004), Luc Ferry has a great career as a writer and as a teacher. These skills enable him to deliver an amazingly clear-to-understand speech, exclusively recorded in studio for Fremeaux & Associes, in various set devoted to a great philosopher (Kant, Nietzsche). In this new release, Luc Ferry has chosen a different approach and explains the philosophical background of Christianity. Not as a believer, but in order to understand the evolution compared to the Greeks, and the basis of our societies. In French.
