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Live at the Grand studio: the Franco-Tunisian artist Amina performs 2 tracks from her latest album with Léonard Lasry on the piano. Ditto for Canadian songwriter Patrick Watson.
Our first guest is Amina for the album release The light of my choices (Believe Music / 29 Music).
Appeared on the music scene in the 80s, making the link between world music and Western pop, Amina spread its wings in the 90s.
Whether it’s during his triumph at Eurovision in 1st ex-aequo, or in the cinema in front of the cameras of Bernardo Bertolucci, Claude Lelouch or Maiwen. His solo albums are all critical and public successes. In 94, she is the 3rd female voice on the album PARIS by Malcolm McLaren alongside Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Hardy. Her appearances suddenly became rarer at the turn of the 2000s, but Amina did not completely disappear. For 10 years, she went into exile in Sweden where she produced albums and concerts with a jazz formation (Norrbotten Jazz band).
Career plans, Amina does not make any, she trusts her instincts, her desires and the deep freedom that inhabits her. In 2016, she met Leonard Lasry and together they record Radwoi for a video of the Cartier house and thus begin the preparation of a new project allowing each other to explore other facets of their musicality.
Titles performed at RFI
– Radwoi Live RFI a trio
– You play so well, excerpt from the album The light of my choices
– We are asked to please each other Live RFI a duo see the clip.
Line Up
– Amina Prophet, chant
– Valentine Duteilcello
– Leonard Lasrypianist, vocals.
Then we receive the Quebecois Patrick Watson for his new album Better in the Shade (Secret City Rd).
Patrick Watson released their seventh full-length studio album, Better in the Shade, via Secret City Records. The CD and a limited edition version on colored vinyl will be released later this year. Alongside the album launch, Watson also shared a stop-motion music video (stop-motion) directed by Elisabeth Perrault for the title track.
According Patrick Watson, Better in the Shade “is about living in a world where you no longer know what is real. I spent a lot of time reading to improve my lyrics for this record,” he says. “I was heavily inspired by Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, The Waves by Virginia Woolf and Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin. The lyrics bring together little thoughts that were going through my mind. We have multiplied our efforts to reinvent our arrangements, by integrating a greater electronic dimension “, he continues. “The addition of modular synths allowed for a warmer, soulful and fluid approach to electronic sounds, which sound as acoustic as the rest of the instruments. In short, I redid my classes during the last two years in order to bring something new. andrew des Barr Brothers plays drums with us on this record. It was a pleasure to play with such a talented musician.”
Patrick Watson composes, performs and records his albums with his collaborator and longtime musician Mishka Stein. Winners of Polaris Music Prize in 2007, in addition to having received several nominations for Prix JUNO and the Polaris, Watson and his band have performed on every continent, sometimes even with full orchestras, to bring their rich music to life. Their most recent tour stopped at some of their biggest venues to date, including the Barbican (London), L’Olympia (Paris), Coliseu (Lisbon), El Plaza Condesa (Mexico City), and many more. Growing up in Montreal, where he still resides, Watson composed several scores for film and television, including a trailer for The Walking Dead and the movie in 3D Everything Will Be Fine the Wim Wenders.
Titles performed at RFI
– Better in the shade see the clip
– Stay,excerpt from the album Better in the Shade
– Little Moments.
Line Up
Patrick Watson, piano, voice.
Son : Mathias Taylor, Benoît Letirant.
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