Dick Annegarn responds to the times with joy, poetry, and tenderness, delivering a luminous, cheerful, and profound album. “A morning album,” he calls it. Morning for momentum, breath, desire, the great “let’s go” of joy. Even when he evokes darkness, feet move and the body vibrates. It's a matter of impulse; a life impulse. He confesses to having been deeply moved by Antoine Leiris's “You Will Not Have My Hate” after November 13th, so Dick Annegarn wanted them not to have his anguish, his stress, his rage either. Instead, there will be *Twist*, the most cheerful album of his career. With Philippe Avril at the console, the album was recorded in that tranquil atmosphere at Studio Ferber. Many first takes were kept, as the songs flowed so smoothly. Around him were musicians who share his desire for simplicity, elasticity, and rebound: Jean-Pierre Soules on trumpet, Christophe Cravero on violin and piano, Olivier Koundouno on cello. His friend Raphaël came for a duet. Why *Twist*? “The twist is not a movement with deep social roots like jazz, blues, or rhythm'n'blues. It's a culture of carefree abandon, playfulness, cheekiness, provocation...” *Twist* is happy, pop, and prodigious.
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