When one of the most thrilling sopranos of our time performs the most beautiful melodies of Erik Satie and the Belle Époque of the early 20th century with 4 virtuoso musicians... A bold and personal tribute to freedom, lightness, and fantasy! "What could Satie have heard while strolling through Paris and frequenting its cabarets?" Julie Fuchs asks herself. She answers with a journey guided by the "variety of styles." This "trademark" that is dear to her and often recognized in the singer's projects. A variety that the composer would undoubtedly have applauded, he who followed an artistic path as singular as it was original, far from academia, and in constant renewal. A variety also ensured by the arrangements, signed by Cyrille Lehn, Arthur Lavandier, and Thibault Perrine, rich in delightful instrumental combinations where accordion, violin, double bass, and piano intersect (Félicien Brut, Alexis Cardenas, Davide Vittone, Alphonse Cemin). Satie wanders through this album as through Paris: both present everywhere and elusive. Julie Fuchs, with a contagious joy of sharing, makes eras, styles, words, and sounds dialogue. She recreates the atmosphere of a vibrant artistic Paris, that of cabarets, salons, concert halls, where song, humor, tenderness, and modernity mingle. A journey both learned and light, driven by the conviction that music, as Satie said, is first and foremost a matter of sincerity, imagination, and freedom.
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