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Dick Annergarn marks with this twelfth album his great return to the musical forefront that he had left in 1978, in reaction to a showbiz too hypocritical and conformist in his eyes. After a few little-noticed records since then, this former student of the Petit Conservatoire de Mireille comes out of his voluntary exile and offers us a new opus whose production is entrusted to Dominique Blanc-Francard, who once worked for Bowie, Souchon, Chagrin d'Amour...
We find here everything that had made the success of his first 30 cm, Sacré Géranium released in 1973: a stentorian voice with Flemish accents, recognizable among a thousand, avant-garde poetic lyrics, sometimes flirting with surrealism, but also very carefully crafted arrangements. It is with the singer Joseph Racaille that he signs the latter, sometimes with gypsy colors ("Les Tchèques"), sometimes jazzy ("Tu mènes ta vie"). Strings and brass blend together skillfully. Both insiders and novices should not hesitate to follow to the letter the advice of this marginal figure of chanson and to get closer to him by acquiring this key album, whose booklet photos are (in addition!) signed Jean-Baptiste Mondino...