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L'album de sa vie

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The album of his life by Alain Bashung, a new 3CD compilation, brings together the major tracks from one of the most hit-filled repertoires in French rock music. The album of his life (What a life!) thus begins with Gaby Oh Gaby, the match that ignited the singer's career at the dawn of the 80s, before tracing the journey of this multifaceted, popular, and demanding artist through some forty memorable tracks. A final CD, devoted to the numerous covers that Bashung scattered throughout his career, also shows the breadth of inspiration (from Léo Ferré to Manset, from Elvis to Leonard Cohen) that nourished this unique body of work. Through this snapshot of thirty years of full effervescence, his sense of immortal melody (Vertiges de l'amour, Osez Joséphine, Madame rêve, La nuit je mens), his hairpin musical turns, his powerful, singular voice, and his taste for highly poetic nonsense, cultivated through contact with exceptional lyricists (Boris Bergman, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Fauque...), which has now become a language in its own right.A miraculous unreleased trackBut the big surprise of this new anthology is the presence of an unreleased piece, On n'a pas l'air..., which dates from 1981 and was exhumed and mixed forty years later by Mitch Olivier, the sound engineer from the sessions of that era. You can hear echoes of the ska of the time through a lively saxophone, a bluesy harmonica that reflects Bashung's fidelity to his foundational influences, but the guitars and rhythm reveal the future chapter a few hours early. An essential discovery that is nothing short of a miracle.

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  • Album L'album de sa vie
  • Artist Alain Bashung
  • Release date 2024-03-08
  • Label Barclay
  • Distributor UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE
  • Format CD (coffret)
  • EAN 0600753994931
  • Number of discs 3
  • Number of tracks 58

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Disc 1

  1. Gaby oh Gaby
  2. Bijou bijou
  3. Vertige de l'amour
  4. Rebel
  5. C'est comment qu'on freine
  6. Volontaire
  7. What's In A Bird
  8. S.O.S. Amor
  9. Bombez
  10. Osez Joséphine
  11. Happe
  12. J'écume
  13. Madame Rêve
  14. Volutes
  15. Ma Petite Entreprise
  16. J'passe pour une caravane
  17. L'apiculteur
  18. A perte de vue
  19. Seul le chien
  20. On n'a pas l'air...

Disc 2

  1. La Nuit Je Mens
  2. Angora
  3. Aucun express
  4. Malaxe
  5. Fantaisie militaire
  6. Résidents De La République
  7. Je t'ai manqué
  8. Sur un trapèze
  9. Hier à Sousse
  10. Venus
  11. Je tuerai la pianiste
  12. Comme un Lego
  13. Le secret des banquises
  14. Tant de nuits
  15. Immortels
  16. Les Salines
  17. Elle me dit les mêmes mots
  18. Montevideo

Disc 3

  1. Hey Joe
  2. Hey Gyp
  3. All Over Now
  4. That's All Right Mama
  5. Well All Right
  6. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
  7. She Belongs To Me
  8. Nights In White Satin
  9. Les amants d'un jour
  10. Les mots bleus
  11. Le tango funèbre
  12. Céline
  13. L'eau et le vin
  14. Avec le temps
  15. Le sud
  16. Bruxelles
  17. Suzanne
  18. Il voyage en solitaire
  19. L'homme à tête de chou
  20. Everybody's Talkin'

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