Les chevaux du plaisir (Boulay chante Bashung)

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« Walking on water, avoiding tolls, never suffering, just making the horses of pleasure neigh... » It is from this stanza from the song Osez Joséphine by Alain Bashung that Isabelle Boulay took the title of her new album. An album of covers but also of surprises, as the meeting between the Alsatian artist and the Quebec interpreter seemed improbable. « I had been circling around his work for years, I found it so demanding, from a literary and musical point of view. It was as if I had watched his songs run like wild horses and I told myself I wanted to ride at least one. » The horses of pleasure, the album Boulay sings Bashung is, more than a daring gallop, a convincing team. Undoubtedly because the interpreter approached these eleven songs with respect and humility, while making them her own. As confirmed by Jean Fauque who has already written for Isabelle, the author of most of Bashung's titles: « I had long dreamed of a woman singing Alain's songs. He is the most feminist man I know. » Dare, dare, Isabelle...