{"product_id":"gainsbourg-serge_aux-armes-et-caetera_2016_uni","title":"Aux Armes Et Caetera","description":"100% Reggae, recorded by Gainsbourg in Kingston, featuring heavyweights like Sly \u0026amp; Robbie and Rita Marley's I Threes, this album is his biggest reinterpretation of a genre. Huge success (finally), it will give its author a new aura among the youth as well as a new momentum to his live performances. Breaking away from his concept albums of the 70s, it is certainly less musically developed, even if his reggae is of excellent quality. But the mismatch of French talk-over and Jamaican groove creates a brilliantly carefree atmosphere. Carefree, but oh so subversive, this reggae cover of \"La Marseillaise\" will generate so much ink. Here, Gainsbourg plays up the excess of his \"dirty and unshaven\" image that a certain part of France sticks to him, and it gives us \"Eau et gaz à tous les étages,\" \"Les locataires,\" or \"Des laids des laids.\" He pretends to be a false tough guy, with a hint of Javanese, talking for the first time about drugs (\"Brigade des stups\") or fighting (\"Relax baby be cool\"), but it's without touching it and just to add small impressionistic touches to an album entirely dedicated to redoing his portrait. A cover of an American song \"You rascal you\" already released in France in '51 and that Gainsbourg will reinterpret later in a big band jazz version with Eddy Mitchell. Sex again, but without the innocence of the lolitas and with a more explicit metaphor in \"Lola rastaquouère\" (even though we \"take off vibrating towards the African skies\" just like for a \"Transit à Marilou\"). And then, at 51, time is running out, Gainsbourg not yet Gainsbarre will not last \"long\" here. Finally (another reference to \"L'homme à la tête de chou\") the logical reprise of the piece that inspired this new reggae direction with \"Marilou reggae dub.\" The verses, here less finely crafted, strike more through these little vignettes they suggest with humor and cool detachment. The whole thing, always extremely balanced, completely masks the repetitive side of reggae: the most \"nice\" album by Gainsbourg. Paula Haddad - Copyright 2017 Music Story","brand":"Gainsbourg Serge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57732071752024,"sku":null,"price":20160225.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/gainsbourg-serge_aux-armes-et-caetera_2016_uni","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}