2023-10-16 00:15:05
THE MORNING LIST
This week, we offer you six discs and a box set appreciated and reviewed by the critics in the music section of the Monde and which were marketed in September. In chronological order of releases: a jazz stroll through pop and rock by pianist Baptiste Trotignon in trio; the eighth and final opera by Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans (1936-2022); the new album from the Texan group Explosions in the Sky; a box set bringing together two concerts by the short-lived trio formed by Jeff Beck (1944-2023), Tim Bogert (1944-2021) and Carmine Appice; the move towards synthetic urban sounds of the psychedelic folk troubadour of American-Venezuelan origin Devendra Banhart; nine compositions by Tunisian Jasser Haj Youssef on viola d’amore; the new album by English soul singer Jorja Smith.
« Falling or Flying », de Jorja Smith
For this new album, Falling or Flying, Jorja Smith could have worked with the biggest producers. Asked for numerous duets, some of which with Stormzy or Burna Boy turned into hits, the English soul singer nevertheless declined their offers.
The interpreter of Blues Lights preferred to work with girls like her from the West Midlands: the Dame Dame duo, two Franco-Congolese women she has known since adolescence. On this record, osmosis is evident. She recounts her transformation, from a candid young girl, dressing like a Betty Boop, to this self-confident woman capable of politely sending her boyfriend for a walk on the sublime What if my heart beats faster ?or nicely flirting with a dancer on the remarkable Little Things.
On this track, the duo of producers recreated the atmosphere of English rave parties where we go from a grime room to a space where the DJ plays drum and bass, house music or R & B. According to Jorja Smith, her transition to her life as a woman is not easy, because it takes place under the public eye. Listening to the introductory piece, Try Meit doesn’t seem to intimidate him that much. St. B.
Pochette de l’album « Falling or Flying », de Jorja Smith (Because Music, sortie le 29 septembre). BECAUSE MUSIC
« Brexit Music », de Baptiste Trotignon
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Police, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and others are put to jazz in this successful fort Brexit Music, by pianist Baptiste Trotignon. In trio with double bassist Matt Penman and drummer Greg Hutchinson, for acoustic covers of pop and rock compositions, attentive to the recall of the original melodies, in a treatment which reinvents the atmosphere.
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