A minimum of notes for a maximum a music - and for ambition the triumph of singing in all conditions.

Trop souvent, les animaux, preserves pendant des millenaires par le permafrost, ce sol perpetuellement gele du Grand Nord Siberien, ont ete abîmes par l’alternance gel-degel des saisons et par les pratiques musclees – A la lance A incendie – de ceux qui les ont degages de leur gangue de glace. C’est pour eviter cela que Bernard Buigues, directeur de l’association francaise Cercles polaires expeditions, responsable de l’expedition Mammuthus, dont la direction scientifique est assuree par Yves Coppens, paleoanthropologue au College de France, a decide de maintenir une chaîne du froid autour de Jarkov. “Plutôt que d’envoyer des morceaux de ces animaux, seches ou decomposes, aux laboratoires etrangers, nous avons eu l’idee de le conserver sur place en bon etat, et de faire venir les chercheurs jusqu’A Khatanga”, precise Yves Coppens. » Christiane Galus, LE MONDE / « Un “Jurassic Park” A la mode mammouth? Les geneticiens, japonais et americains en tête, ont dejA clairement affiche leur souhait de tenter un clonage pour “fabriquer” un mammouth du XXIe siecle bien vivant! Pour se faire, il suffirait que la congelation de Jarkov ait permis une bonne conservation de cellules intactes. A partir de l’ADN retrouve, on peut imaginer que les chercheurs remplacent le code genetique d’un embryon d’elephant d’Asie par celui de Jarkov, avant de placer l’embryon qui en resultera dans l’uterus d’une elephante pour esperer faire naître un bebe mammouth... Un “Jurassic Park” A la mode mammouth ? » Jean-Marc Guilbert, LA DEPECHE

Apres l’edition de l'integrale des etudes de Fernando Sor interpretees par Alain Prevost, il etait naturel d’editer une anthologie des fantaisies pour guitare du même auteur. Beaucoup plus que de simples exercices d’etude, le travail de compositeur de Fer

They called her Lady Patachou and, in fifties’ Montmartre, her cabaret was a “must” where she used to gather all the great names whose songs she sang, from Georges Brassens and Guy Beart to Charles Aznavour and Leo Ferre. This anthology compiled by Dany Lallemand brings to light a selection of recordings made by Patachou as an icon of Parisian music-halls, a major figure combining the popular accents of Paris with the elegance of Montmartre. Claude COLOMBINI FReMEAUX

Gifted with a unique voice of bewitching charm, the Guadeloupe singer Moune de Rivel took Creole song to its peak. Jean-Pierre MEUNIER

“This 3 CD boxset feature one of the founder writings of France 17th century’s literature. Through the portraits of mankind various way of being, La Bruyere also gives a genuine testimony of Louis the 14th. Read in French by famous Denis Podalydes, member of the Comedie Francaise.” Claude Colombini-Fremeaux

Guy Touvron n’a pas choisi la facilite. Toutes ces pages trouvent ici une fraîcheur, un ton nouveau: qualite du son (c’est la trompette en etat d’apesanteur), du phrase, de la virtuosite impeccable. Tous les trompettistes devraient ecouter ce disque ils

“Music is like a small flame placed under the screen to help warm it’, said the American symphonic composer Aaron Copland, defining the role that music played in films. It’s an opinion shared by Claude Bolling, a major figure in European jazz and a man whose highly original scores have left an indelible mark on the collective memory: Borsalino, Lucky Luke, Le Magnifique, Les Brigades du Tigre… Fifty years after writing the music for his first short film, the great Bolling jumped at the idea of this retrospective, an entertaining project that would associate his twin statures as a pianist and film-composer within the same album.” Stephane LEROUGE Claude Bolling is the great ambassador of big-band jazz and one of the greatest film-music composers of the 20th century. He’s also the man behind the term “crossover” designating the music-genre which mixes jazz with classical music, thanks to a dozen duo records which paired Bolling with trumpeter Maurice Andre, guitarist Alexandre Lagoya, cellist Yo-Yo Ma or flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal... Claude Bolling’s “Suite for Flute and Piano” with Rampal remained in the U.S. sales-charts of “Billboard” magazine for more than ten years. Patrick FReMEAUX

This 2 CD set offers a debate on psychoanalysis, with Philosopher Michel Onfray and psychoanalyst-psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik. A few month after an intense debate in France regarding Michel Onfray’s writings about Freud, at last two hours are given to the philosopher and great professional Boris Cyrulnik, to have a true philosophical discussion about the ways psychoanalysis acts today. In French.

Politician, writer, artist, Andre Malraux was also one of the major tribune of his century. French national assembly found in its archives this previously unreleased recording: Andre Malraux’s audition, May 12, 1976 at the “Commission for liberties”. In french. Patrick Fremeaux

“João Gilberto’s first two albums made in Rio de Janeiro in 1958 gave Bossa Nova its birth certificate: misleading indolence, simplified samba rhythms, altereted chords, and a new way of placing the voice while shifting the rhythm on guitar. He gave jazzmen, record-producers and American radio a new musical language. Through the prism of their own codes, his contributions freed themselves from traditional rules to provide savoury new vitality to popular music, and the Bossa Nova spread throughout the world like a universal remedy.” Teca CALAZANS

"This set brings together all the recordings by Taos Amrouche originally released on the Arion label. The 5CDs propose an unrivalled synthesis of our knowledge of the artistry and oral culture contained in these neglected gems from the Mediterranean regions: the Berber songs of Kabylia, and Spanish songs of ancient times. The Amrouche family – both Taos and her brother Jean – have enjoyed an extraordinary destiny: having perfectly assimilated French culture, they have at the same time spread and enhanced the glorious cultural heritage of their Berber ancestors. Thanks to Taos Amrouche and Laurence Bourdil-Amrouche, herdaughter and heir, these poems and songs have been saved from oblivion, as testified by this boxed-set and its 88-page booklet, a precious document for generations to come." Benjamin Goldenstein

A 5 CD audiobook by Luc Ferry (Philosopher, former Teaching Minister) about the love marriages revolution in Western society. Love replaces traditional culture and puts the individual in the middle of the society. In French

This 2 CD set delivers philosophical chronicles by Jacques Ricot – famed philosopher and professor in France. 34 philosophical exercises, in brief chronicles (3 to 4 minutes each), remember to the listener the very basis of the philosophical first background on the fundamental themes: the Subject, the Culture, Reason and Reality, Morality and Politics. In French.

This 2 CD Box delivers two conferences by Guy Dumur, French writer famous for his writings on the Theatre. The first conference, about Pirandello, was recorded in 1957. The second, made in 1958 has for subject Andre Gide and the theatre plays. In French.