This 2 CDs boxset proposes a smart analysis on Hannah Arendt's philosophy on cultural studies, explained by Jean-Francois Mattei one of the most important French philosopher and press columnist.

(2-CD set) Music packed with melodic gems, endowed with astounding harmonic richness. Includes a 16 page booklet with both French and English notes.

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.

Serge Gainsbourg remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th century to this day. In this second volume, Olivier Julien and Frederic Regent have gathered all of Gainsbourg’s works from the period 1960-1962, a little-known period when French song was in transition, in a context where rock ’n’ roll was emerging at the same time as the beginnings of the tidal wave in French pop they called “Ye-Ye”. This 3CD set contains titles sung by not only Gainsbourg himself, but great stars of the early Sixties, including Juliette Greco, Philippe Clay, Catherine Sauvage and Petula Clark. Patrick FReMEAUX

With his great Soul voice and elegant guitar, B.B. King is the musician who deserves most credit for making the world discover the Blues. This anthology compiled by Bruno Blum includes the best titles from the guitarist’s most authentic period, the years in which he imposed his influential, highly personal style to become a King of the Blues. Patrick FReMEAUX

This CD features Claude Bolling's big band in full and Guylenn's warm and accomplished voice infused into the subtle arrangements. The Bulletin du Hot Club de France stated: "the quality of the arrangements, it's precise and dynamic playing and the calibre of the soloists give it first place among the big jazz bands active today." Includes the songs Warm up the band * Tonky bop * Night and day * Heaven's there for you and me * Harlem airshaft * High society * You go to my head * Moanin' * Stardust * La Marseillaise in swing * the Lady is a tramp * Children's game * Bye bye blues * Nostalgia * Le Clan * Yolande * Seventh avenue express.

Un guitariste qui clarifie A la perfection le contrepoint et favorise les harmonies en nous menant aux frontieres de la polyphonie. La melodie est presente dans cette architecture magistrale, mais les basses trouvent bien plus naturellement leur place son

In the 1960s, Marcel Pagnol set out to record the full text of My Father's Glory, My Mother's Castle and The Time of Secrets. In literature and film Pagnol had always shown a high sensitivity to sound dimension and originally intended to release these recordings to be successful across France, but unfortunately, the recordings remained in the shadow of film and this recording was never made available to the public. Thanks to the Marcel Pagnol succession, the Librairie Sonore published by Frémeaux & Associés has had the honor of presenting these totally unpublished recordings of one of the best-known French-language literary sagas in the world. Here they are gathered for the first time in a set of 14 albums. More than a posthumous testament, the voice of Marcel Pagnol reveals us an intemperate imagination "Because I now have little children, I often want to tell stories. It is the natural function of grandfathers, and perhaps their greatest merit. Mine, told me about Donkey Skin, Beauty and the Beast, Riquet with the puff; but today, the fairies do not have fun anymore to change a pumpkin into a carriage, and it's a great pity, because they would make us, with a pumpkin, a "citroën", with a cucumber, a "dauphine", and with a swallow, a "dovetail" ... For me, I preferred to tell you the childhood of a little boy, who was also that of your grandfathers, and who is perhaps not very different from the Yours, for the little boys of all the countries of the world and of all times have always had the same problems, the same malice, the same loves.” (Marcel PAGNOL)

One of his illustrious careers has been his ownership of the Caveau de la Huchette in Paris, the city's underground jazz temple and the last club in the world where jazz is for dancing. The other is that Dany Doriz is a grand master of the vibraphone and a peerless bandleader. Including many rarities items and previously unreleased sessions, this 3-album set looks back on 60 years of jazz history, and the vibes player has sailed through the decades with an indestructible sense of swing. Lionel Hampton once dubbed Doriz his "spiritual son" and, since the early 60s, Dany has pursued a playing career in an incredible groove that has featured the likes of St�phane Grappelli, Hampton or Claude Bolling, Rhoda Scott and Sacha Distel, not to mention Memphis Slim, Manu Dibango or Marcel Azzola

"This 2CD boxset delivers the recording of a Forum organized by one of the major newspaper in France: Liberation, with the objective of letting two major characters of the subject treated discuss in public. This discussion between Denis Mac Shane (former UK Minister of State for European Affairs) and Martin Hirsch (the former head of Emmaüs France and the High Commissioner for Active Solidarities against Poverty in the government of Francois Fillon) was focused on the subject: “Le marche cree-t-il de la pauvrete ?” (Does Market cause Poverty ?). In French." Patrick Fremeaux

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.

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“Want to talk about music? With all due respect, I’d say hush!... There’s no rush. It’s all about respect, silence and music. Here are three converging voices for a threefold and thrilling musical experience.” Francois Lacharme Fremeaux & Associes are reissuing the historic 1988 recording on the La Lichere label which marked Cesarius Alvim's first meeting with Eddie Gomez.

(3-CD Set) This box set features three conferences from Michel Onfray at the prestigious Bibliotheque Nationale de France. With simplicity, pedagogy and precision, Michel Onfray proposes a vast overview of the thesis that founded his entire philosophical point of view: a re-evaluation of hedonism. Contains three conferences (in French) on the following subjects: history, ethics, politics.

"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