{"product_id":"brisa-roche-et-fred-fortuny_freeze-where-u-r-vinyl_2021_lad","title":"FREEZE WHERE U R (vinyl)","description":"“AN EXTRAORDINARY VOCAL PERFORMANCE.” ---TÉLÉRAMA ---. He had long dreamed of an album that was \"very Fred Fortuny, American,\" something sparkling, extremely melodic, and also very natural – in the style of the beautiful records written in Laurel Canyon (in the Hollywood Hills) in the 60s-70s, those sunny songs by the Mamas and Papas, the Byrds, and Joni Mitchell, whom he cites with passion, just as he would later cite Jimmy Webb, Carole King, and of course, the entire New York aesthetic of the Brill Building. So many perfectly assimilated references: Fortuny is not the guardian of a temple closed with a double lock; he is (perhaps unknowingly) one of its most honest and authentic heirs. She is the most beautiful of American voices residing in France – Brisa Roché – a \"total\" artist: singer, composer, writer, and painter. Discovered in the jazz circuit (first signing with Blue Note), she then ventured into freer territories (troubled pop, contemporary folk, arty electro-pop), until returning here, in a perfect duo with her friend Fortuny, to her first love: vocal albums! Songs that come from afar, that come from the heart. A pianist-composer at the peak of his art, and a proud voice, that of a pop princess who sings there, with no apparent effort, the most powerful and touching melodies you will hear in 2021. M AS IN MELODIES This album is a treasure chest. You haven't finished admiring one of its jewels before the next one catches your eye. Their method? Fred Fortuny first wrote a set of music, themes, elegant refrains. Brisa joyfully approved them, impressed by the beauty of the sketches. Then, as is often her practice as a musician, the Californian recorded herself, alone. At home, in Paris. A voice, a microphone. Almost improvisation: Brisa starts the music, she goes for it, she launches in. The strength of her vocal melodies is this nonchalance, this audacity, this ability to keep \"the first draft,\" the instinctive impulse. And only then did the band go into the studio to record the finalized version: at the legendary ICP studio in Brussels, specifically in studio C, equipped with a 1973 NEVE console. This ensured, with such songs and such musicians, a sound that was both vintage and ultra-modern. C AS IN CALIFORNIA Why is this album so captivating, so charismatic? Because it seals the encounter between two fiercely independent spirits. Instinctive Brisa is a child of America, but with a journey that is atypical, to say the least. She was born in a small house on a beach in Arcata Bay, in that hidden, almost inaccessible Northern California that locals call \"The Lost Coast,\" or \"behind the redwood curtain.\" When she was 13, her family lived in the forest, cut off from everything. At 16, Brisa left for Seattle: it was an adventure, life singing in her ear, \"come on, don't be afraid, we'll see what happens...\" Could she have become anything other than this jack-of-all-trades artist who ultimately chose Paris as her playground? The fact remains that this hidden California, safe from clichés, is her intimate sanctuary, her refuge. And it can be heard in the album, which has that youthful flamboyance, that inner joy inherited from childhood, a touch of magic that illuminates the most touching works. F AS IN FEMININE In its voice, in its lyrics, FREEZE WHERE U ARE is a woman's album. And perhaps even women's – plural. \"The themes I address are those of an entire life, but observed, dissected from where I am today,\" explains Brisa. \"These songs speak of emancipation, lost loves, nostalgia, anger against men, separation, impossible stories... of pages turning, of new pages opening... but I also wanted to evoke our addiction to new technologies and to this virtual world, so often fake, which makes us true slaves.\" When the time came to interpret these very intimate lyrics, something astonishing happened: behind her microphone, as she began to sing, Brisa Roché suddenly felt connected to those magnificent women's voices she listened to on records as a child: Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell... Voices of yesterday, but which still seem to resonate through her today. \"Sometimes, albums are neither here nor there. This one has a tail (of a white tie) and a head (crowned). A pianist-composer at the peak of his art, and a proud voice, that of a pop princess who sings there, with no apparent effort, the most powerful and touching melodies you will hear in 2021.\" --- Emmanuel Tellier for December Square ---.","brand":"Brisa ROCHE et Fred FORTUNY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310277575000,"sku":null,"price":20210205.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3521381564228_51551233-9a1f-403f-997e-ec095190133b.jpg?v=1760318056","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/brisa-roche-et-fred-fortuny_freeze-where-u-r-vinyl_2021_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}