Author: Katerine

Format: Enhanced

Release Date: 19-11-2002

Details: Amazon.ca Katerine digs a little further into the furrow he had begun to explore on the excellent and previous The Creatures & the Three-Handed Man (two discs released together). Already, the Recyclers, a flagship trio of French improvised music since the 90s (Benoît Delbecq on the piano, Steve Arguëlles on the drums, while the guitarist Noël Akchoté was replaced by Christophe Minck), tickled the singer there, shaking up the handsome easy-listening ordering of his universe, which was at work on some of his first (very good) albums. This being the case, the man is still marked by the Brazilian rhythms of bossa-nova and the sophisticated arrangements inherited from Gainsbourg from The Story of Melody Nelson. To his palette of influences, however, he has for some time added the somewhat brazen atmospheres that Brigitte Fontaine built on her productions for the Saravah label in the 1970s ( As on the radio for example) as evidenced here by a certain taste for surreal and offbeat humor (see the priceless Fifrelin and Boulette that Katerine invented). Perpetually on the go, Katerine is here by turns funny, subtle, melancholy, acid, ambiguous... --Philip Robert

UPC: 044006649627

EAN: 0044006649627

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New