(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.

(2-CD set) In the 'Roots of Rock'n'Roll' series, this volume focuses on 1950 - a year of verve, invention, rhythm and humour - the ingredients for pure Rock'n'Roll. Competition is strong between the newcomers from Rhythm & Blues - Fats Domino, La Vern Baker, Ruth Brown - and those from a Country Music background - Tennessee Ernie Ford, Charline Arthur and Lefty Frizzel. OMIT-3/4/08-Capitol

A CD of the songs of wetland Warblers and their allies: Hypolais warblers that are excellent mimics, leaf warblers and crests that hunt in tree foliage. The more than one hour of recordings is accompanied by a 12 page booklet, generously illustrated, which includes a description of each recording and colour drawing of each species.

This 22 track CD contains the music of Reunion Island, a cultural meeting place located in the Mascarene Island group in the Indian Ocean, which also contains the Maurice and Rodrigues Islands. This collection presents for the first time a panorama of the popular creole big bands which used "fanfare"-style brass instruments in their music. Features L'Orchestra Toussaint (led by Miquel Toussaint) on 18 tracks and Les Cuivres Harnomiques du Sud (orchestra led by Henri Mahe) on 3 tracks.

(10-CD set box) The Complete Charles Trenet collection regroups the 5 double albums "Integrale Charles Trenet". Includes a 80 page booklet with both French and English notes.

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.

Dedicated to gypsy-swing's world capital, Romane's album Samois-sur-Seine captures the atmosphere of the gypsy-bars and restaurants on the banks of the river Seine. Romane's guests are some of the greatest players on the manouche scene, including guitarists Angelo Debarre and Babik Reinhardt and violinist Florin Niculescu. Romane also broadens his vocabulary by inviting the great classical guitarist Roland Dyens. This fifth volume in the complete works of Romane, recorded in the magical atmosphere of the town where Django Reinhardt was laid to rest, provides unique testimony to the virtuosity and vitality of the gypsy-music scene.

You think you know how to listen to the blues, as you know certain terms such as a riff, 12-bar, a rocking chair etc. However, anyone can cry at the wrong time in mid-concert, or come out with badly-timed 'That's right man'! For newbies and connoisseurs alike, Professor Jacques Morgantini enables the former to learn and the latter to consolidate the culture necessary to love jazz even more. An exemplary selection is explained in a 24-page booklet so you can really listen to the blues.

The cradle of celtic music finds the majority of it's origins in Ireland. From here, over the centuries, it has evolved and been carried across the seas to North America in the world. IAN McCAMY, a native New Yorker, is one of the rare breeds of traditional urban fiddler. Whether it's fast lilting reels, foot-moving jigs, expressive airs, or swinging ragtime, thier rowdy high spirirts and consummate musical skills will not fail to bring the most unwilling dancer to thier feet. If the atmosphere of the lower decks in the "Titanic" brougth joy to your heartthen the music of Ian McCamy and his celtic reelers will carry you away back to those simple pleasures so well known before by the popular classes.

“This CD concerns the smaller members of the thrush family, all excellent musicians, closely allied to Thrushes and the Blackbird, other good songsters. On this CD of more than an hour, Jean C. Roche and Jerôme Chevreau have also included Saharan Wheatears, with surprising songs. Generously illustrated, the 12 page booklet includes a description of each recording and drawing of each species.” Patrick Fremeaux

This album highlights the cosmopolitan universe of one of today's greatest guitarists, Rapha�l Fa�s. In associating Paris with Seville he has produced a musical manifesto, and here he expresses all his passion for gypsy music and flamenco with extraordinary brio. This musical journey gives us the opportunity to experience the atmosphere at the Chope des Puces in Paris during it's golden age, and also that of Seville's famous bars in Triana. Once again, Rapha�l Fa�s demonstrates all of his marvellous gifts as a composer-instrumentalist in this tribute to the wood from which a guitar's body is made: a wood shared by Tzigane and gypsy cultures alike. Here his guitar ends it's resonance and breath to these musical cousins filled with the spirit of the lives, and liberty, of the nomads.

Recorded at Orsay Museum's Auditorium during the exhibition "Splendour and destitution, images of prostitution 1850-1910", the album Cafe Polisson reminds us in song of sketches by the likes of Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas or Steinlein, and it provides a glimpse of the illegal underworld of the cafe concerts during the Belle �poque. Actress-singer Nathalie Joly is the greatest exponent of the genre 'parle chante,' and universally recognized by critics for her immense performances of works by Yvette Guilbert (collected in the trilogy "Yvette ! Yvette ! Yvette !" (FA5679, the complete songs of Yvette Guilbert by Nathalie Joly.) This recording is a wonderful recital by a master performer, featuring material by the great writers (Bruant, Guilbert, Xanrof etc.) mingled with bawdy popular songs. These works are by turns humorous or cruel, realistic or poetic, but always coarse and daring. They echo the misery, resentment, and indeed pride, shown by these so-called "loose" women.

Jeanne Moreau remains an icon, one of the greatest in France's national heritage. She was the muse of the Nouvelle Vague, and incarnated the highest summit of elegance, femininity and freedom. Jacques Verzier here pays a wonderful tribute to Moreau in performing (mostly) titles that come from the "Cycle de Clarisse". Together with the complicity of his longstanding partner, pianist Patrick Laviosa, Verzier succeeds in restoring every flashand tasty nuance that make these m�lodies so delicately full of mischief.

Designed by writer Max-Pol Fouchet in 1966, "Afrique Noire" is a documentary film that is one of the most beautiful odes to Africa. It will overwhelm watchers with emotion, reflections, and curiosity about the otherness of other civilizations. With the maturity and the modernity to understand without judging, to explain without reducing, and to seduce with reality, Max-Pol Fouchet, author of the book The Naked Peoples, presents the unparalleled summit of the cultural documentary. Adeline Baldacchino, author of Max-Pol Fouchet's biography, explains that "Black Africa is poetry in the most essential form, that which brings us closer to the sacred. If it is necessary today to be interested in the vision of Max-Pol Fouchet, it is not simply as a historian, or even ethnologist, but in esthete."

David Jisse never ceased to express his unique and multi-faceted creativity as a leading figure of the �nouvelle chanson� as half of the duo David et Dominique, as a radio broadcaster and as a composer of electroacoustic music. Those closest to him - his family, the musicians and sound engineer that accompanied him - joined together to finish the album that the artist himself couldn't complete before his disappearance in 2020. A live performance complements the studio recording to give a whole picture of the artist's rich opus. David Jisse was a Jack of all trades and a dreamer. He has handed down lyrics and melodies that reflect the true artist he was: sincere, mischievous, poetic, dedicated.