In 2019, Arthur Teboul and Julien Doré were in the castingAnd so on Flight. 2the album of duets that the singer Christophe (1945-2020) had recorded with guests, covering a selection of his songs (including The beautiful bizarre, interpreter with Teboul and La Dolce Vita, with Doré). Five years later, his singer-poet Group fire! Chatterton And former winner of “New Star” from the M6has become a confirmed star, again practices the art of the cover, with two albums, released a few weeks apart: The piano voice for Arthur Teboul, accompanied by the jazz pianist Baptiste TrotignonAnd Impostor for Julien Doré. Two public successes which, if they have a title in common – A happy manFROM William Sheller (present in Piano voice More, extended version of The piano voice, released on December 4) –, outline two approaches and, implicitly, two very different conceptions of the Francophone repertoire.
Recorded in public during two duo concerts at La Seine musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), The piano voice celebrates above all the aristocracy of “text songs”. Barbara, Jacques Brel, Alain Bashung, Brigitte Fontaine, Jacques Higelin or Léo Ferré and Georges Brassens (through the music they composed for the texts of Louis Aragon) are served by the respectful presence of the singer and the nimble sobriety of the pianist.
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