Swing of France, the new-generation band that takes on the classics! After “Jazz Musette Strikes Back”, an album that set the scene for victory, this could be “Swing of France – The Return”! The western France combo is joined here by Daniel Givone, one of Django’s eminent heirs, for a tribute to the cult album “Manouche Partie”. Made in 1960 by the legendary accordionist Jo Privat (a jazz musette cornerstone), that one was a classic: it never went out of fashion, with every title a legacy of Swing… and every heir to the style has wanted to measure his own talent against it. Incredibly, that album is now unavailable, but this tribute more than makes up for it: no stylistic fl ourishes, no attempts at modern arrangements, and no repetition. The band Swing of France just transmits the emotions contained in the original melodies. The result is a marvellous success.

The Presses Universitaires de France and Fr�meaux & Associ�s offer this biography of Aim� C�saire, by V�ronique Corinus, specialist of the Antillean and African cultures, lecturer at the University Lumi�re Lyon 2. Poet and politician Martinique, Aim� C�saire was part of a struggle for political independence and cultural recognition of the black worlds. A fervent opponent of colonialism, he co-founded L�opold S�dar Senghor's concept of "n�gritude". V�ronique Corinus traces the career of this exceptional man throughout the 20th century. This four-album set is presented in French.

Accordion is a filmed document by Pierre Barouh traveling around the famous Accordion festival of Tulle (France) with some sequences of the Montmagny accordion festival (Canada) - where amateur and the greatest professional players (including Richard Gall).

This anthology brings together the first three albums by the Oignons, an inescapable jazz group whose mission was to restore to it's former glory every vigorous ounce of the New Orleans style: not by taking the old to make it something new, but by emphasizing all the avant garde power that lies behind the main style of the first era in jazz. And the band puts it's own inimitable signature to the compositions and arrangements here by adding a tap-dancer to the rhythm section: the result overflows with communicative energy. This retrospective set underlines how much trumpeter and leader Julien Silvand succeeded in establishing his band as the worthy heirs to France's eminent New Orleans representatives, from Claude Luter to the Haricots Rouges and Orph�on C�lesta.

Classical Music

72 philosophical concepts explained in 2/3 minutes by French Philosopher Luc Ferry. Playful. In French

To coincide with the exhibition “Mayas, Revelation of an Endless Time”, Fremeaux & Associes and the Quai Branly Museum are to make available again a series of field-recordings carried out onsite in Mexico, not only among the Maya population but also the Totonac and Cora peoples. From the late Sixties to the early Seventies, Francois Jouffa and Serge Roterman set up several expeditions to Latin America to record popular and religious music forms. The art of music captured here shows a collective, functional, and also esoteric and sacred, character. Forty years after the event, these recordings are exceptionally well-preserved; they bear witness to a tradition and incorporeal heritage handed down orally over centuries, and whose great representatives are now gone. Patrick FReMEAUX

The rhythms and music of Brazil have become famous worldwide, and today they’re fully recognized as an integral part of international music-culture. This anthology represents the cream of contemporary samba with 36 titles from the independent Sao Paulo label CPC UMES, whose commitment to the artistic tradition & the heart of Brazilian culture guarantees its vivacity. Philippe LESAGE & Patrick FReMEAUX

Classical Music

Fascinating evidence of mystic Afro-Jamaican religious practices inherited from the days of slavery. Accompanied by these songs, drums and trances, ancestral spirits took possession of initiates in authentic ceremonies which inspired fiction’s zombies and voodoo… These rare sounds probably come closest to the legendary bamboulas held in New Orleans’ Congo Square in the 19th century: the true origins of Negro spirituals, jazz and gospel. The deep African roots of reggae and Rastafarianism are revealed here and include the earliest Rasta ritual recordings ever made. Deciphered and clarified by Bruno Blum, this Revivalist spiritual music is supplemented by Mento pieces and some savoury traditional songs. Patrick FReMEAUX

“In those days, music was in a period some have labeled the “cool school”. Most musicians spent their time practicing chord changes and checking out Stravisky or Bartok. Nobody was making money, but musically, it was an interesting time.” Helen MERRILL

This is the second volume of Fremeaux's new collection, about French History. Directed by Claude Gauvard, an esteemed historian and college Professor, in coedition with famed editor "Presses Universitaires de France" (PUF), this collection proposes historical lectures on French history by the best specialists of the different periods. In this 4 CDs boxed set Claude GAUVARD tells us the history of France during the Capetian Dynasty (from the 10th century to the 14th century).

According to Raphael Stevens and Pablo Servigne, collapsology is not a messianic prediction but: "the transdisciplinary exercise of studying the collapse of our thermo-industrial civilization, and what might succeed it, based on the two cognitive modes of reason and intuition, and on known scientific work". Comment tout peut s'�ffondrer ("How Everything Can Fall Apart") demonstrates the vulnerability of our societies and the systemic risk of their possible collapse. Because today, utopia has changed sides. A utopian is someone who believes that everything can continue as before. The �ditions philosophiques Fr�meaux & Associ�s welcome this seminal work from 2015, completed by an update in 2021, which formalizes the new paradigms of the challenges facing humanity. Audiobook, in French.

"As months go by, the sounds of nature change. Sleet, wind, water courses, birds, field crickets, Red deer… interpret the oldest concert in the world. In this album, four movements of 15 minutes each mark the seasons and reveal very different natural soundscapes that vary accordingly." Patrick FReMEAUX

This 3-CD set box features three conferences held by the prestigious "Universite de tous les savoirs." They are all devolved to the notion of "mondialisation." You will find, thanks to these conferences, the complementary conceptions of an economist, a philosopher and a sociologist. Spoken in the French language. With economist Laurence Tubiana, philosopher/geopolitician Pierre Hassner, and sociologist Gerard LeClerk.