Author: Edith Butler

Format: Best of

Release Date: 02-25-2003

Details: Amazon.ca After being eclipsed for no less than eight years, Édith Butler is making a comeback with a completely revised musical approach. In Madame Butlerfly: Timeless Legends, she puts a decidedly modern spin on songs that are decades or even centuries old, with Catherine Lara and Thierry Eliez (Deep Forest) arranging and producing. However, under the many layers of synthesizers and drum machines that invariably recall Lara's Aral project, we realize that Edith Butler has remained essentially the same and that this musical turning point, halfway between new age and electro -pop, is not negotiated very well. The boiling Acadian seems to be suffocating under the mass of electronic sounds bathed in an annoying reverberation, in this mishmash of world music where pieces like "À la claire fontaine", "L'Enfant au tambour" and "Wing tra la". This aesthetic choice, which distorts Butler's work more than it updates it, unfortunately taints what could have been a great comeback, because the lady is still good in voice and knows how to interpret these pieces with sensitivity. --Nicolas Houle

UPC: 064027272925

EAN: 0064027272925

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New