Shower of stars for Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen. / Tony Vaccaro/Bridgeman
The legendary Canadian who died in 2016 continues to be (re)visited. Witness this album produced by studio legend Larry Klein and performed by stars. Norah Jones, Peter Gabriel, Mavis Staples, Iggy Pop and Gregory Porter (on Suzanne) are in the game. Jewels stand out like Famous Blue Raincoat, covered in blues mode by Nathaniel Rateliff. We are expecting Sarah McLachlan on Hallelujah and guitarist Bill Frisell for Bird on the Wire.
Here It Is : A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, collective album, Blue Note/Decca, on October 14.
Yaron Herman, pianist in weightlessness
Pianist Yaron Herman at the Colmar jazz festival in 2011. / Jean-Frédéric Surdey/L’Alsace/MaxPPP
From the vibration, breathing and harmonies of his music emerges a raw and deep emotion, which catches up to amazement in concert. The Franco-Israeli pianist Yaron Herman is revered by jazz lovers for the weightless improvisations of which he has the secret. After ten albums, alone or with his trio, he allows himself for the first time an entirely improvised record. Fluid and inspired, the musical tracks ofAlma open doors to adventure, imagination and letting go.
Alma by Yaron Herman, Naïve, 14 October.
Dominique A, a musical enchantment
The singer Dominique A. / Jerome Bonnet / Wagram
Bright and spacious, The real world, as inhabited by Dominique A, sparkles with the aura of masterful albums, those of which we discover new riches with each listening. Associated with double bassist Sébastien Boisseau and a set of virtuoso musicians, the artist makes the strings speak on a large scale and interprets with intensity this fourteenth album placed under the sign of Laughing Stock, de Talk Talk. Last call of the forest, the opening track, sets up a dreamlike atmosphere of rare beauty. The enchantment continues over the News from the distant world, auscultated with empathy.
The real world, by Dominique A, Cinq7/Wagram on September 16
La Féline’s ode to her hometown
The Feline. / Lucination/Kwaidan Records
“Learning discs” exist, like novels. Agnès Gayraud alias La Féline sings in Tarbes an ode to his hometown and his youth. A drum machine, a bass and a guitar, the composer summons her memories in electro pop mode with a beautiful breadth for her voice and choirs. Normalian and doctor of philosophy, she tells an intimate story anchored in her familiar places, from the Place de Verdun at the quays of the Adour, which finds the poetic breakaway of a song of wild beauty, The Panther of the Pyrenees.
Tarbes from La Féline, Kwaidan Records/IDOL, on October 14th.
Apple, a dreamy perfume
Apple singer. / Lian Benoit/Polydor
At only 26 years old, Claire Pommet impresses with the brilliance of her talent. A bewitching voice, melodious songs, a sound designed with musician Flavien Berger, Consolation sing “what feels good”. Apple honors the women who matter to her, Barbara (B.)writer Nelly Arcan (Nelly) ou Chihiro, the heroine of Miyazaki’s film (River). She gives her music a scent of childhood and dreams in the spirit of the drawings of the immense Claude Ponti, invited to illustrate the disc.
Consolation, de Pomme, Polydor, released on August 26.
Biolay, to dance with melancholy
Benjamin Biolay. / Mathieu Cesar/Polydor
The city of Sète rocked Benjamin Biolay to inspire him with an exemplary, pop and committed album. Seventeen titles with heady melodies, intimate and universal lyrics, inscribed in the tradition of The superb and of Grand Prize. Under the English influence of the Smiths or the American of the Strokes, he dances with melancholy on Pink cheeks, return love! or Saint Clare (with Clara Luciani). He dares an intense and romantic ballad, (A) Ravelwith a sublime classicism.
Saint-Clair, by Benjamin Biolay, Polydor, September 9.