THE MORNING LIST
After a first selection, proposed at the beginning of October, of books on music, here is a second, this time of six works, among the many on this theme which accompany the autumn 2022 return to publishing. There is song with Bashung, hip-hop with Cut Killer, guitarist Jimi Hendrix in pictures, a youth encyclopedia on rap, portraits of 150 drum personalities and the influence of Marcel Proust on Oxmo Puccino .
Behind the musical scenes of Alain Bashung
In the wake of Gainsbook (Paperback, 2019), a work that took us behind the scenes of the albums and songs of “man with the cabbage head” during their recording process, it was Alain Bashung’s turn to have the honors of the same editorial concept. Editions Seghers entrusted this heavy task to the former editor of Unbreakable Christophe Conte, who had the privilege of meeting the late singer on several occasions, who died in 2009 at the age of 61.
For the development ofIn the studio with BashungChristophe Conte collected the testimonies of more than sixty close collaborators of the French rock figure, from all periods, including his favorite lyricists Jean Fauque and Boris Bergman, the English producer Ian Caple, the American guitarist Marc Ribot, the Valentins or even Dominique A…
Each chapter goes back chronologically through the thirteen albums, from the confidential beginnings of Roman-Photo (1977) at Blue oil (2009) and the posthumous Upstream (2018) through experiments with Gainsbarre on Play Bessures (1982), exile to Memphis fromDare Josephine (1991), without forgetting the consecration military fantasy (1998).
The “Bashung method” – his art of collage and his sense of the collective – is dissected with erudition without being aimed exclusively at experienced musicians. The book is full of tasty anecdotes and is copiously illustrated with photos and documents, some unpublished. Note, the parallel output of an audio complement In the studio with Bashungwith five titles from the TV movie Car Graveyards (1983), reworked in their long versions. Frank Colombani
The autobiographical mixtape of DJ Cut Killer
He is the most popular hip-hop DJ in France. DJ Snake, international star who wrote the foreword to this book, is one of his biggest fans, it’s « mon DJ number 1 », and Joey Starr, its most regular master of ceremonies in evenings as explosive as they are festive.
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