"Boris Vian is one of those solitary adventurers who throw themselves headlong into a new world, song. If the songs of Boris Vian didn't exist, we'd be missing something. They have that irreplaceable je-ne-sais-quoi which makes any work of art interesting and timely. I've heard some people say they didn't like them. Much good may it do them! There'll come a time, as they say, when dogs will need their tails and every audience will need the songs of Boris Vian." Georges Brassens

This 6 CDs box set features the reading by Marcel Pagnol himself of his book « Le Temps des Secrets ». Following “La Gloire de mon pere” and “Le Chateau de ma mere”, « Le Temps des Secrets » tells the teenager life of Marcel Pagnol, getting out of childhood to enter an adult life were the time of secrets begins. Audiobook in French.

After his excellent tribute to Oscar Peterson in West Side Story, Ludovic de Preissac is back with L'enjeu des paradoxes, a sextet album featuring his own compositions. Apart from his skills as a pianist, de Preissac's composing and arranging talents make this album a major contribution to the French jazz scene. The guest artist here is virtuoso saxophonist Sylvain Beuf, whose brio combines with that of the others to produce some truly sumptuous improvisations.

This CD features an historical reading (very popular in France since 1954) of four stories from 'Les lettres de mon moulin' by Fernandel, one of the most popular French actors of the 20th Century. Fremeaux. 2006.

(2-CD set) “You only find a musician like Django once in a century". Rex STEWART. Includes a 40 page booklet with both French and English notes.

Classical Music

A Giant of Afro-American music. James Brown turned rhythm & blues upside down and inside out when he blew the verve of Gospel right through it. This collection by Bruno Blum tells the story of the «Godfather of Soul» from the beginning with his splendid first recordings (including the legendary «Please, Please, Please»). One listen to these, and you can already feel the storm which this Soul Giant and unrivalled Funk King was going to kick all the way across the planet. Patrick FReMEAUX

A monument of South-American music, author, singer, guitarist and composer Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-1992) was born Hector Roberto Chavero in Pergamino, a province of Buenos Aires. He took a stage name that paid tribute to two Incan rulers and became a revolutionary who studied indigenous cultures. His ethnographic work became internationally known; he performed with Edith Piaf and his compositions were later recorded by the likes of Mercedes Sosa. Yupanqui is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century, and this 1982 album, Buenas Noches, Compatriotas, reissued here on Fremeaux, is now considered a historical recording.

It is no accident that the first book written in the history of mankind in the 18th century BC, Gilgamesh’s Epic, tells of the awful suffering that takes hold of humans when death comes to take away from them. Since then, wise men, theologians, and philosophers have constantly offered answers, seeing solutions in the face of this rift. In this release, Luc Ferry exposes and analyzes in as clear and precise a manner as possible what the Jews, the Greek philosophers, the Buddhists, and the Christians believe about life’s only certainty- death. He also proposes a history of love and philosophical categories that try to identify the meaning and scope of our lives. Luc Ferry is a French philosopher and proponent of secular humanism. He has taught at the Institut d’etudes politiques de Lyon, Caen University, and Paris Diderot University.

« 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

This 2CD boxset delivers a public conference by Michel Onfray about Justice in our societies. Invited by the "Syndicat des Avocats de France", Michel Onfray analyses the notion of Justice in front of professionals of this question. The second CD features the questions of the audience and the answers by Michel Onfray. In French

Located within the borders of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, the Golden Triangle is a remote region of Southeast Asia at the crossroads of Chinese and Indian influences. On the outskirts of steep mountain passes and of its foothills covered with luxuriant jungles live peoples of Chinese origin isolated from the rest of the world that Francois Jouffa recorded in an area known for its dangerousness, in the late 1970s, on the Cold War and traffic drugs background. This sound recording, here presented on a double CD, is a rare audio testimony which lists the different types of music, the songs and the music instruments of the Meo, the Lisu, the Shan, the Lahu Nyi, the Yao, the Akha and the Karen Sgaw peoples, the traditions and customs of which are very ancient. Patrick FReMEAUX

"He was the alchemist who transformed the dark, brooding sentiment of keen, living death into ecstasy. And also the one who, in the depths of ecstasy, collected a precipitate of bitterness." Fremeaux & Associes’ « Quintessence » products have undergone an analogical and digital restoration process which is recognized throughout the world. Each 2 CD set edition includes liner notes in English as well as a guarantee. This 2 CD set present a selection of the best recordings by Art Pepper between 1950 and 1960.

"The big band era corresponds exactly to the great period of classic jazz in which black band leaders, arrangers and musicians added that something special to popular American music. Jacques Morgantini presents the greatest Black Big Bands of the 1930-1956 era in a 40 tracks selection presented in a 36 pages booklet." Patrick FReMEAUX

”Her pure talent caused a huge stir when she appeared in the world of Fado at the age of 19, and for several decades, both at home and abroad, Amália Rodrigues symbolized the quintessence of this urban popular genre whose heart lay in Lisbon. Amália made the reper-toire richer by introducing major new composers and poets who seduced intellectuals, yet she never renounced her origins: she remained devoted to the most traditional Fado styles. This new Fremeaux release gives new life to 38 exemplary titles recorded between 1945 and1957, the decade in which Amália Rodrigues won international acclaim while creating the history of modern Fado.” Teca CALAZANS & Philippe LESAGE