Ten years after their last collaboration, Jacques Duvall and Benjamin Schoos return with Plein Sommeil, a duo album that is at once melancholic, ironic, and tender-a poetic mirror of the fatigue of the modern world. The legendary lyricist for Lio, Chamfort, and Daho meets the indie pop producer and sonic adventurer of Freaksville, in a generational union as improbable as it is natural. Between Brussels and Paris, they weave songs about slowness, worn-out love, and resistance through gentleness. Blending original compositions and delicate covers (The Kinks, Higelin, Daho), the album evokes a sensual and lucid refuge amid the overheating of everyday life. Recorded with Bertrand Burgalat, The Loved Drones, and lush string arrangements, Plein Sommeil embraces a handcrafted, timeless aesthetic. It's motto: "Slow business" - a manifesto against the speed and emptiness of contemporary times. Each song, balancing irony and elegance, celebrates fragility and humanity.
Ten years after their last collaboration, Jacques Duvall and Benjamin Schoos return with Plein Sommeil, a duo album that is at once melancholic, ironic, and tender-a poetic mirror of the fatigue of the modern world. The legendary lyricist for Lio, Chamfort, and Daho meets the indie pop producer and sonic adventurer of Freaksville, in a generational union as improbable as it is natural. Between Brussels and Paris, they weave songs about slowness, worn-out love, and resistance through gentleness. Blending original compositions and delicate covers (The Kinks, Higelin, Daho), the album evokes a sensual and lucid refuge amid the overheating of everyday life. Recorded with Bertrand Burgalat, The Loved Drones, and lush string arrangements, Plein Sommeil embraces a handcrafted, timeless aesthetic. It's motto: "Slow business" - a manifesto against the speed and emptiness of contemporary times. Each song, balancing irony and elegance, celebrates fragility and humanity.
TRIBUTE TO ANNE SYLVESTRE These Rendez-vous are a vibrant and contemporary tribute, performed by fifteen artists from different generations and backgrounds who have come together to celebrate the extraordinary legacy left by Anne Sylvestre through music. Each of them has expressed, in their own way, their deep attachment to her world. Whether they knew her, sang her songs, or simply admired her, they pay her a sincere tribute here, on a human level, in the emotion of a live performance. Rendez-vous Sylvestre is not just a series of videos or an album. It is a bridge between generations, a living memory, a group of artists who affirm that Anne Sylvestre's words are more necessary than ever. The location was not chosen at random: these recordings took place in the legendary Studio Ferber in Paris, where she made her last albums. Each artist chose their own cover version and provided their own musical direction. This artistic freedom gave rise to fifteen unique, deeply personal interpretations, imbued with emotion, rebellion, humor, and tenderness, echoing all the facets that illuminate Anne Sylvestre's art and personality.
After My Voyage I, Live in Guyana, the Afro-Amazonian, Valerie Tribord presents: My Voyage #2, recorded between Paris, Macon, Abidjan, Kinshasa, and New York... Renowned musicians from diverse backgrounds and musical cultures: France, the Caribbean, Guyana, and Haiti: Thierry Fanfant, Jay Brixxx, Mike Clinton, Julien Lacharme, Christophe Cravero, Lister Haussman, (Kinshasa) Master Kebs, Marie Paule Tribord, Georges Granville, Kristof Negrit, Alex Poignet, Dabo Carlos, Djanuno, (New York / Haiti) Noldy Cadet, Jp and the Beat, (Dominique) Ibis Lawrence, Bublaz (Jamaica)... 13 tracks, including various works from the solar universe, by Valerie Tribord. From Creole to French, Portuguese, and English, to Reggae, Afrobeat, Zouk/Kompa, and Brazilian ballads, what a musical journey, without borders, through My Journey II. Featured artists: Julien Lacharme (Solaar System), Lyricson, the very talented Guinean artist, and Afro Zouk diva, Ivorian singer Monique Seka, STREAMS HITS. In concert, Valerie must send you everything... On tour, starting in September 2025
Whoever has seen them, Mounia and Areski, rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile or elsewhere, a little eternal hat for him, a gavroche cap for her, quickly grasps the content of their bond. Between the actress-author and the mythical composer, the sun has been shining for a long time. "With Areski, we have been fraternizing for a few years, we can say that we are celebrating our decade, she smiles between two runs, and much more besides since we met in 2013. And it is almost halfway through this relationship that I approached him for a joint project aimed at nourishing our friendship and making it grow, I thought we needed to work together. I proposed to him a theatrical and musical show for which he would do all the music. It gave Les Momes Porteurs and this album is the original soundtrack or more exactly it was imagined, dreamed like a sound film. For all that, after twenty-three albums, most of them with his wife and partner Brigitte Fontaine, the score that Areski delivers here is once again particularly inspired, he himself rightly recognizes it's "rock dimension, trance and uppercut".
Whoever has seen them, Mounia and Areski, rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile or elsewhere, a little eternal hat for him, a gavroche cap for her, quickly grasps the content of their bond. Between the actress-author and the mythical composer, the sun has been shining for a long time. "With Areski, we have been fraternizing for a few years, we can say that we are celebrating our decade, she smiles between two runs, and much more besides since we met in 2013. And it is almost halfway through this relationship that I approached him for a joint project aimed at nourishing our friendship and making it grow, I thought we needed to work together. I proposed to him a theatrical and musical show for which he would do all the music. It gave Les Momes Porteurs and this album is the original soundtrack or more exactly it was imagined, dreamed like a sound film. For all that, after twenty-three albums, most of them with his wife and partner Brigitte Fontaine, the score that Areski delivers here is once again particularly inspired, he himself rightly recognizes it's "rock dimension, trance and uppercut".
