2023-05-03 17:01:56
► Dom La Nena, mystic of the cello
Leon, sun the babe
Un CD Sabia/Big Wax/Alter K
His cello and lifelong accomplice, Dom La Nena calls him “Leon”. The virtuoso Franco-Brazilian musician and singer has made Leon her best ally, whom she shines in solo with four albums to her credit, including the aerial Tempo in 2021, or with Rosemary Standley in the duo Birds on a Wire.
Album instrumental, Leon opens up purified and voluptuous soundscapes. Drones held in weightlessness, melodic whirlwinds, throbbing string patterns, inhabited silences… create a mystique of the cello, a hypnotic and lyrical universe conducive to meditation or dreaming.
Concerts from May 19, dates on the Dom La Nena website
► Sublime Arthur H
The life, Arthur H
Un CD Believe
“In the beginning, everything resounds, everything shines, everything lights up, everything flies away”, and at the end “this infamous trap that closes, that traps you, controls you until you feel sick”. When he talks about life itself, Arthur H creates great songs that give you the thrill and you won’t forget.
Lyricism and melancholy, the singer-poet is at the top in this album where each title is thought of as a short film. With a beautiful sound depth inhabited by piano, strings and choirs, Arthur H tells short stories. A couple battling cancer, a family secret, a musician from the Titanica man in front of the ocean… “The heart grows bigger, it thought itself small…” We would listen to it endlessly.
Concerts from May 4, dates on Arthur H’s website
► Maissiat in warm waves…
Delta, Maize
On CD Cinq7/Wagram Music
A strange place, vaporous and full of life, a delta is divided between land, sea and sky. The singer, author and composer Amandine Maissiat restores the palpitation in an album oscillating between happiness and sorrow.
A poetic atmosphere and a radiant vibration settle over his eleven songs composed in piano-voice and interpreted with an intimate sensitivity. “I see myself as a child devouring summer, in warm waves, where no one thought it would turn outmal… », sings Maissiat. Capturing the emotions with delicacy, it is part of the tradition of Françoise Hardy, gaining complexity and inspiration with each listening.
Concerts from May 4, dates on the Maissiat website
► Toufic Farroukh, long-distance journeys
Untamed EleganceToufic Farroukh
Un CD Scale Art & Culture/Baco Distribution
Rare are the musicians who know how to combine jazz with harmonies and tempos from the Orient. The dosage is difficult and there is a great temptation to multiply the melodic arabesques to infinity on the pretext of giving color. Since his first album, Ali On Broadway (1994), the Lebanese saxophonist Toufic Farroukh avoids these pitfalls and navigates cheerfully between multiple musical continents.
In this new album, he once again happily mixes brass and strings to present us with a dozen compositions in elegant hues, arranged with pianist Leandro Aconcha. Note among the musicians, in addition to the always talented Sylvain Gontard on trumpet, a young less experienced trombonist, Paco Endreo, with a beautiful and very promising sound.
► Katie Melua, the melody of happiness
Love & MoneyKatie Noise
Un CD BMG
Enchanter of soft pop, Katie Melua won with three songs: Wonderful Life, Nine Million Bicycles et The Closest Thing to Crazy have made the British singer of Georgian origin an endearing star who has sold 11 million records. Love & Money, his ninth disc, sings a romantic and inspired melody of happiness. Recorded while the young woman was pregnant with her first child, this album once again bears witness to her exquisite vocal freshness and the clear line of her inspiration.
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