Encore!

Description

A café in Paris, a cocktail bar in Palm Springs, a seaside bar in Rio de Janeiro, a lokanta in Istanbul. Jill Barber's French repertoire is played around the world and has earned her an audience that transcends language barriers. Her music has become the soundtrack of an experience. This is a remarkable feat for an English-speaking artist who only began her affair with the French language in her late twenties, after a moment at the Montreal Jazz Festival, where she sang a few notes in French to a cheering crowd. Inspired by their reaction, Jill enrolled in an immersive French school in the south of France, eventually emerging with her own recordings of the songs and poets that inspired her the most: Piaf, Gainsbourg, Aznavour. The album "Chansons" was released in 2013 and has since become Jill's most successful record to date, having been streamed over 120 million times - with more than 35 million streams in the past year alone. A decade later, Jill reunited with Grammy-nominated producer Drew Jurecka and the musicians who accompanied her on "Chansons" to produce "ENCORE!", her highly anticipated follow-up. "ENCORE!" is a deliciously arranged and richly orchestrated album, featuring all-new interpretations of classic songs by Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Blossom Dearie, Django Reinhardt, Robert Charlebois, Josephine Baker, and Barbara. "For me, singing in French is an embodied and sensual experience... it's a new language in which to explore and express myself artistically - and to be vulnerable." The French have a saying for a particularly pleasant sensation that is so unique it is hard to express in words - when Jill Barber sings in French, there is a delightful quality, a "je ne sais quoi" that is difficult to describe but easy to appreciate. And now, she has done it again - ENCORE!