Prohibition

Description

Brigitte Fontaine is back. Without formula or gimmick. With clenched fists. With a banner title, Brigitte Fontaine sings the present, a present that is written with blows of laws that castrate, that reduce. This record, with tones as much rock as subliminal, admirably produced by the Welsh Ivor Guest (the producer of the latest Grace Jones) from London and of course composed by the indispensable Areski Belkacem, honors poetry, "this fascination for the violent charm of things" and the struggle. An independent record, proud, made of rage and sidelong smiles, of lascivious undulations and flesh never resigned. Of immobile travels and Gods devouring their own dogmas. Of words above all. All imagined by Brigitte Fontaine. Words that strike, that give birth to laughter, desires for barricades, sometimes tears too. Words always at the center, alternating salvatory roars and intimate emotions, dizzying visions and the lightness of a transfigured daily life.