Maxime (Et moi)

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An important figure in French chanson for about twenty years, author of a dozen studio or live albums, and thousands of concerts, Yves Jamait wanted to pay tribute to Maxime Le Forestier. With "Maxime (Et Moi)", Yves Jamait very elegantly revisits 13 songs by one of the artists who has mattered most in his life as a man and an artist: "I don't know what kind of person I would be if I hadn't crossed paths with the work of Maxime Le Forestier... There's a saying: 'What we learn from others is only the blossoming of what is within us.' Well, before this encounter, what was within me was so buried that I felt an abyssal, dizzying void. Maxime Le Forestier's songs gave birth to a kind of light. A tiny, tenuous light—it's the star I followed. I held on to it, and I called it 'Hope'. I wish for everyone to find their spark. This record is, for me, a way of saying thank you. And it does the child I once was good... So thank you, Maxime. All my admiration and gratitude."