(2-CD set) Tango - one of the strongest forms of popular artistic expression in South America, genuine world music from the very beginning of the XXth century, which combines the gitano hoarseness of Andalusia, the melodic style of Italy and the expression of Central Europe, and yet it's true cultural identity lies in Buenos Aires. This Latin tale of dance and desire, illustrated with 36 titles, is related by Philippe Lesage. -

Fremeaux & Associes / historial presents a 6 CDs production reuniting hours of original recordings, with participants amongst anonymous witnesses and the luminaries of the period. The recordings are in the language of each country (French, American, German, English, Canadian, Russian, etc.). The linking texts and liner notes inside the booklet are exclusively in French.

This 2 CD set delivers the original soundtrack of Marcel Pagnol’s movie “La Fille du Puisatier”. The 1932 dialogues have been remixed in 1962 by Marcel Pagnol himself, who has also recorded an extra narrative part to make of this story a proper audiobook! In French.

(3-CD set) This 3 CD boxset delivers a living history of the French Polar expeditions by three major personalities from three different times of French scientific and cultural knowledge: Paul-Emile Victor (recorded in 1962, speaking about his late 1930's travels), Robert Gessain (recorded in 1982) and Claude Lorius (recorded in 1982 and in 2006). These recordings were made by "Paroles, Images et sons", who worked to help promote oral history. The questions are from children, and recorded in their classroom, to mix together history and easy-to-understand responses to questions by great scientists. In French.

“For over a century, the Banjo has always been a vital part of the musical history of North America. Its early history is represented in this 40 tracks boxset by banjo specialist Gerard de Smaele. These titles reflect the adventure of the United States of America in an outstanding anthropological topic, detailed in a 36 pages booklet with both French and English notes. From its African and European origins until the roots of the “Folk Revival”, a decisive entry into American culture and identity.” Patrick Fremeaux

Born in Menilmontant, Jo Privat was one of the greatest lumi naries of the “squeeze-box”. The work of this inspired composer and virtuoso accordionist can be situated at the confines of “musette” and gypsy music, and many of this incomparable performer’s unforgettable waltzes are today considered classics. In this set, Dany Lallemand explores the discography of the man they called “the white gypsy”, with a detailed biographical essay accompanied by rare recordings, some with their pitch corrected to restore the original timbres to the digital transfers. Claude COLOMBINI FReMEAUX

This Cd presents some masterpieces of Children’s literature: the best tales from Sweden and Norway. For this production, two outstanding actors have accepted the challenge of interpreting the tales: Marina Foïs and Thierry Lhermitte, surrounded with a musical creations by Jean-Francois Alexandre, Frederik Martin and Patrick Burgan. Audiobook in French.

Georges Moustaki was one of the most brilliant French singer-songwriters, building an audience by performing the songs of others before reaching fame at the end of the Sixties with his own song “Le Meteque.” He wrote lyrics and music for some of the greatest artists of his time, among them Montand, Barbara, Cora Vaucaire, Dalida, Serge Reggiani, and especially Edith Piaf, for whom he wrote “Milord”, one of her best-known songs. In this 3CD set, Olivier Julien examines the early work of this activist-dreamer, an artist whose hundreds of songs are part of France’s cultural heritage. Patrick FReMEAUX

First released in 1994 and 1996, these two now-legendary albums have equal reputations as being both rare and major works in the genre they incarnate to perfection. The spirit of Django Reinhardt guides the playing of Fapy Lafertin: his choruses all show a rare elegance and precision together with a rhythmic pulse second to none, which make Lafertin more than a mere heir to the Master. Reissued in 2012 through Lejazzetal, this edition, re-mastered and augmented, presents Swing Guitar and Hungaria, recorded under pre-war conditions (direct sound-takes encircling a Thirties’ mic) and produced by Dave Kelbie, an unavoidable iconoclast and jazz figure, and probably the genre’s greatest producer (with credits including Evan Christopher’s Django A la Creole, Tcha Limberger etc.) Swing Guitar and Hungaria are indispensible to any jazz fan’s collection. Benjamin GOLDENSTEIN & Augustin BONDOUX

Sophisticated production of concert in the magnificent setting of the Palace of Versailles. The suite, first performed in 1975, has been one of the most successful Classical/Jazz crossover recordings....ten years in the Billboard top 50!

With this volume # 16, Michel Onfray continues if focus speach on Freud… A 13 CDs box set by Michel Onfray. In French. A Counter History of Philosophy by famous French philosopher Michel Onfray - with 750 000 records sold until today! "A parallel history of thinking, that rehabilitates the hedonist and materialist tradition, that resuscitates the gnostics, libertines, baroques, dyonisiac socialists, free spirits and other visionaries..." Robert Maggiori, Liberation

Nicolas Gogol is one of Russian literature's major representatives. Considered as the creator of "fantastic" literature, in 1835 he published a collection of novels (Mirgorod) from wich is extracted the "Journal d'un Fou" (Diary of a mad man). This novel depicts the growth of madness in a little office worker wo builds up the world of his dreams to escape from his true disappointing world. Can he then keep the control of his imagination? Read in French by famous actor Jean Topart. Recorded for the National Radio in 1956.

(3-CD box set) Published in 1839, "L'Abbesse de Castro" is one of Stendhal's "Chroniques Italienne." Italy fascinated Stendhal and has probably never been honored with more grace and talent by any other French writer than by him. Energy, passion and instinct are the main words to describe Stendhal's Italy and the energy of his book, read in this 3-CD box set by famed actor Jean Piat for the French national Radio in 1956. In French.

3-CD box set features great French explorer Paul-Emile Victor reading his book "The Great Starvation," recorded by the National Radio in year 1956. 20 years earlier, the navigator returned from a winter expedition in the North Pole. There, he had spent the entire winter with an Eskimo community, and to get to know them better, he learned their language and culture. The book he wrote when he came back features the genuine story of a major trauma in the Eskimo's history: the great famine of the years 1882 and 1883. In French.

This 3 CD set features an historic reading by famed actor Jean Desailly in 1959 of Jules Verne books "De la Terre A la Lune" (From Earth to the Moon) and "Autour de la Lune" (Around the Moon). Jules Verne is since more than 150 years a source of dreams and inspiration for any of his readers - whether young or old. In these books, written circa 1865, Jules Verne allready figures out the conquest of the Moon by mankind. In French.