Métamorphose

Description

Lavilliers and large orchestras have regularly crossed paths. We remember his tribute to Léo Ferré at the Théâtre du Chatelet in 2006 with the Pasdeloup symphony orchestra... Just a year ago, he gave a one-off concert at the Maison de la Radio with the Radio France orchestra. The experience made the singer want to pick up the thread of that evening by recording part of his repertoire with a large classical orchestra. After Sous un soleil énorme, conceived in the middle of the pandemic and at a distance from his musicians, the singer wanted to reconnect with the spirit of “old-school” recordings, finding himself right in the middle of his musicians for the recording of an entire album. This without nostalgia, rather with the spirit of a go-between that characterizes him, as if he were also telling us a little of the history of recorded music through this gesture. Accompanied by composer and arranger Cyrille Aufort, a symphony orchestra of more than fifty musicians, and four longtime companions (Xavier Tribolet on keyboards and arranger of 3 songs, Antoine Reininger on bass, Michaël Lapie on drums and Vincent Faucher on guitar), Bernard Lavilliers invites us to witness the metamorphosis of 13 of his great songs and reveals an unreleased track...