Author: Bigras, Dan

Release Date: 01-28-2003

Details: Amazon.ca If we are to believe him, Dan Bigras has ended his career as a singer. The compilation 1992/2002: Tout…, which brings together the songs that the Quebec rocker has not denied, is therefore a bit of an event. On the menu: 18 titles, including those that made its success and reputation, from "Kill me" to "Animal Angel" (with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra), from "I invented despair" to "Three Little Pigs". A tribute to all those – and, above all, to all those – who accompanied him over his 10-year career, Tout… brings together several beautiful duets with Luce Dufault, Isabelle Boulay, Laurence Jalbert, Nanette Workman, Boom Desjardins, Éric Lapointe and Rosalie Bigras, his niece. It is true that the artist likes to share the stage and the microphone and that he is never more comfortable than surrounded by his accomplices. Bigras also afforded the luxury of appropriating the songs of two other skinned alive - Jacques Brel ("La Chanson des vieux amants") and Léo Ferré ("Avec le temps") - and to resume, following Serge Reggiani, the moving "It would suffice of almost nothing", three pieces which lend themselves superbly to his harsh lyricism. The result is very seductive and captures the richness of the rocker's universe, his inimitable voice – hoarse, by turns hollow and high-pitched – his intensity and his true talent as a pianist. --Pascale Millot

UPC: 622406920524

EAN: 0622406920524

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood