Dolce vita

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Francesca Solleville returns with an exceptional new album Dolce vita where, true to her habits, she sings the poets Allain Leprest, Michel Buhler, Jean-michel Piton, Aimé Césaire, and Bernard Dimey. Her songs speak to us of frail boats on the Mediterranean, of those men, women, and children fleeing the horrors of war for lands they imagine to be more welcoming, of all those swallowed by the sea... The Mediterranean, by Eric Pellerin, and La vague, a superb song among all by Michel Bühler: "Where must they go / It is not without risk / That one engages their life." A record without dead time, made of peaks of emotion, of never-restrained anger, and of vast spaces of pure tenderness that are extended by the delicate touches of Nathalie Fortin and Michel Precastelli, her faithful companions of all time. As long as Solleville stands, she will sing, raise her fist, and give voice to old revolutionaries like Pottier and Clément and to young artists she wishes for.