Avec des si

Description

The 16th studio album by Jean Guidoni, ‘Avec des si,’ could have been a retrospective record, almost a testament, revisiting the usual themes that have marked his exceptional nearly 50-year career, along a path shared with Michel Legrand, Jacques Prévert, Astor Piazzolla, Allain Leprest, Claude Lelouch, Pierre Philippe, or more recently Juliette, Jeanne Cherhal, Mathias Malzieu, and Dominique A. - - But Guidoni has not aged; he has simply lived. - - It is with a light heart that he opens up, delivering 12 new songs. - - Each one becomes a piece of a puzzle that, once assembled, paints a realistic and modest portrait of Guidoni today. The emotion remains intact, and there is a happy melancholy of someone without regrets. From the gray dawns of Place Clichy to the haunted hotels of California. From highway cafés to train station buffets. Between cabaret dreams and promises of tomorrow. Memories of the sea, of lagoons, without resentment, without bitterness. He loves, he dances, he vibrates, more alive than ever. Free from his painful ghosts, or welcoming them as repentant guests, for a wild dance at the gates of paradise. - - Five years after ‘Légendes Urbaines,’ his last album for which he wrote the lyrics himself, Jean Guidoni this time interprets texts by Arnaud Bousquet, always set to the music of Didier Pascalis, which alternates between intimate and intoxicating. - - Staying true to what he has always done, Guidoni does not retreat into easy habits and reflex songs. - - He opens up to new styles, new themes, new partners in play and writing. An exciting risk-taking, like the mirror of his life. - - With ‘Avec des si,’ everything starts anew, here.