(2-CD set) This CD set connecting the Balkan countries with Afghanistan covers a long history of political and religious exploitations from the days of Alexander of Macedonia till today through his communist and the fundamentalist Islamic followers. Fortunately for those living there now, life can be still vibrant with occasional singing voices.

Bob Lenox presents a rare synthesis of blues-folk music passed down from the seventies with a contemporary musical aspect. A dissenting child in the United States and an artist in the bubbling postwar ambiance of New York, at an early age Bob Lenox was greatly esteemed by the biggest names in music such as Ike & Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Mingus and Hendrix in the late sixties. The artist goes to the source of his creativity and soul in order to offer twelve tracks of rare potency, placing Bob Lenox in the front line of America's best blues and folk musicians along pioneers such as Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and the more contemporary Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.

“Everything she did she did well… Whatever she did she did it with all her heart. She was always magnificent.” Clyde Wright (Golden Gate Quartet)

Montaigne's "Essais" (Essay) are one of the greatest and most important books of the French literature. They were written at the end of the 16th century. This release present a selection of Montaigne's "chef d'�uvre" made for a contemporary man or woman's preoccupations. The selection has been adapted for an oral transmission. Only a great actor could pretend to take up this challenge, and this is the brilliant Michel Piccoli who did it in this 4-album box. "A universal voice: [...] This so modern, surprisingly contemporary voice sings of tolerance, cries out for freedom, murmurs the fragility of" the human condition ". Music in a language that the actor Michel Piccoli gives us to hear, taking as much pleasure in putting it in the mouth as we experience listening to it. [...]" S.V. - PHILOSOPHY MAGAZINE

This anthology from a discreet artisan of song has the title "Lost Treasures" (Tresors perdus) and it completes the Gaston Coute retrospective published in 2016. If poets were antiques, Gerard Pierron would be an antiques hunter, as shown by his efforts to shed light on the work of such popular poets as Louis Brauquier or Allain Leprest. Perron has a unique feel for the musicality behind words, and has given us some remarkable thematic records (songs of the river Loire, the sea, the countryside, wines and people, etc.) This release retraces the discography of an adventurer in song whose career (distinguished by several awards from France's Academie Charles Cros, and praised by the media) remains off the beaten track, with treasures picked up from the by-roads and some unusual encounters.

The "Horseman on the Roof" is a 1951 novel written by Jean Giono. This 2 CD presents a radio dramatisation of the novel, directed by Andre Bourdil, with Jeanne Moreau and Gerard Philipe. In French.

Presses Universitaires de France and Fremeaux & Associates offer this biography of King Arthur, told and explained by Alban Gautier, professor of medieval history at the University of Caen. Did King Arthur really exist? Arthur is a character, at the same time historical, literary, and mythical. From Britain in the fifth century, during the decline of the Roman Empire, until today, Arthur has continued to exist under many faces. His heroic figure has been used for diametrically opposing political purposes, among these the Welsh people during the ninth century, the Plantagenets, and the Kings of the Tudor dynasty. To explore the character in his time, one must put him back into his era. It is this historical enigma that Alban Gautier proposes here to explore.

“Sylvain Kassap is today recognised as one of the major players in jazz and improvised music. In 1987 he recorded Foehn, a solo album constructed around the possibilities provided by overdubbing techniques, sampling and computer-programming. Foehn received a “Choc” award from the review Le Monde de la Musique, and the album was enthusiastically received by the specialist-press, notably the monthly journal Jazz Hot, whose March 1988 issue gave it this review: “First there’s that sound-carpet which recalls Renaissance bass-accompaniment, extra-modal music from outside Europe and also American repetitive music (Terry Riley, etc.) Based on the repetition-principle where the listener can hear subtle shifts in the music, the various instrument-families, after a moment, cease to stand out separately in the timbre, creating a spellbinding new sound. The warm winds of “Foehn” carry echoes of Eric Dolphy, John Gilmore, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler, Roland Kirk and Pharoah Sanders in this musical journey around the world. Alongside the Caribbean in Adelie, or Turkey in Taragot, The last drop, the last drop in the album, begins like a traditional Dominican piece before continuing over the accents of Word Of Mouth by Pastorius. So Long, Jaco. That, too, is jazz culture.” Didier MOREL, JAZZ HOT

This 4 CD box set delivers an analysis of Nietzsche's work by Luc Ferry. Mainly known for his political history (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) about one of the most important philosopher of all times: Nietzsche. In French.

(3-CD box set) Jacqueline Pagnol reads the classic story "Bonjour Tristesse," written by Francoise Sagan and touted by some as the French "Catcher In The Rye." "Bonjour Tristesse" is the story of a spoiled teenager who acts with a high-society sophistication beyond her years. The girl plots to end the relationship of her playboy father's new love interest with equal parts conniving ruthlessness and juvenile prankishness, too self-absorbed to even consider the brutal results of her actions.

'There was a time when French popular music was represented by Georges Brassens, Boris Vian and Gilbert B�caud. The encounter between the variety repertory and jazz was quite natural and legitimate. Claude Bolling. Fremealux. 2006.

Fremeaux & Associes proudly presents Manuia! by the Ukulele Club de Paris, first issued by Universal, that became quite mythical and gained the press and public enthusiasm: “Cravic and his fellow club members perform well-constructed compositions (…). Their repertoire includes Hawaiian and Javanese tunes, sambas, comedy songs, repetitive instrumental passages A la Terry Riley, original compositions, and old favorites, such as Hoagy Carmichael’s ‘Hong Kong Blues’.” By Mike Zwerin – International Herald Tribune

Classical Music

Dressed in a waxed satin or nacred sheath clinging to her ephebic hips, revealing the shoulders of an Olympic swimmer and her back which aroused men and women alike, Solidor's ambiguity prevailed. Not to mention her face, voice and repertory.

Region by region, Fremeaux & Associes Geographic constructs a geography of sounds. It presents the listener with a series of authentic, unaltered landscapes without reconstruction or addition. The approach focuses on natural and technological soundscapes and the way these change with each passing hour or season or as the heavens open. Fremeaux & Associes Geographic baut eine Geographie der Töne auf, deren Region die Werkeinheit ist. Die CD bietet dem Gehör eine Folge von authentischen Landschaften, ohne Umwandlung, ohne Rekonstruktion und ohne Hinzufügung. Der Ansatz interessiert sich für unser Besitztum und ist auf natürliche und technologische Tonlandschaften orientiert, ihre Entwicklungen je nach Uhrzeit, Jahreszeit, die Niederschläge… Fremeaux & Associes Geographic construye una geografía de sonidos, donde la región constituye la unidad de la obra. El disco propone escuchar una serie de paisajes autenticos, sin transformaciones, sin reconstrucciones ni anadidos. El enfoque pretende destacar el patrimonio y está orientado hacia los paisajes sonoros naturales y tecnológicos, y su evolución segun la hora, la estación, la climatología… Fremeaux & Associes Geographic costruisce una geografia dei suoni, la cui regione e l’unitA d’opera. Il disco propone all’ascolto una serie di paesaggi autentici, senza trasformazione, ricostruzione o aggiunta. In questi paesaggi... L’approccio e patrimoniale e si orienta verso paesaggi sonori naturali e tecnologici, verso le loro evoluzioni a seconda dell’ora, della stagione, delle precipitazioni atmosferiche... Fremeaux & Associes Geographic stelt een geografie van geluiden op, waarbij de streek een deel van het oeuvre vormt. Fremeaux & Associes Geographic brengt een opeenvolging van authentieke landschappen ten gehore, zonder vervorming, reconstructie of toevoegingen. De benadering is patrimoniaal en is gericht op natuurlijke en technologische geluidslandschappen, en hun ontwikkeling die afhangt van de tijd, het seizoen, de neerslag…