C'est pas Blanche-Neige ni Cendrillon

Description

Madame Robert could just as well be the nickname of a lovely madam running a small Pigalle brothel in the 1950s as that of your neighbor on the 5th floor, not nice for two cents, who lives with her three angora tomcats, or even that of your math teacher, a bit sly, in fifth grade. Madame Robert is also a song by Nino Ferrer (well, well). Madame Robert is now and above all the name of a generous Rhythm & Blues band, straight out of the jukebox of that neighborhood dive where you used to go play foosball after class. You came out smelling of tobacco, but you still had a great time. Madame Robert is not a gathering of thugs (led by Reuno from Lofofora, Stef, former bassist of Parabellum) come to shake you down for your cash. What we have here is more of a cast of top guns, come to make you snap your fingers, tap your feet and work up a sweat. Old school. Even if it means ruffling the sideburns of the squares, with them there’s no nervous breakdown, just sleepless nights that make you forget that infernal béchamel called life. Six years after the release of their first album, Madame Robert is back to hit harder, first for their own pleasure but also to remind the squares that Rhythm & Blues and irony are not dead. The old-school, no-tricks recording — everything was done live, giving the ten tracks on this new album that characteristic warmth and groove — took place at Studio E, in Ecotay l'Olme, in the Loire, with Bruno Preynat (Mickey3D, Kent, Parabellum). On the cover, Divina Boom, the band’s muse, is back in action and this time takes on the apron of a bar owner, just the kind we’d like to see much more often! Madame Robert is Madame Robert, she’s not Snow White or Cinderella!