{"product_id":"les-primitifs-du-futur_les-crimes-du-musette-cd_2026_soc","title":"Les Crimes Du Musette","description":"The adventure of this truly unique band began in 1986 with the meeting of Dominique Cravic and Robert Crumb, the underground comic book author best known in France for his drawings published in the libertarian monthly Actuel ten years earlier. Les Primitifs du Futur, with their slightly offbeat music and a name that seems borrowed from a Jorge Luis Borges short story, have almost surreptitiously carved out a place in the musical landscape. The band has long been a variable-geometry orchestra, with Dominique Cravic always at the helm. While the early musette quickly took exhilarating detours into blues and manouche, the music has never stopped evolving, successively incorporating touches of typical and tropical aesthetics like biguine, echoes of ballroom dances like the waltz, or folk influences from the Maghreb of the 1930s. Les Primitifs play with styles and disregard temporal barriers. This approach continues with this new album, Les Crimes du musette, a title that references the condescending reserve many still express toward this famous genre, which they consider less noble than bebop, free jazz, rockabilly, chanson, or even rock. In this jubilant opus, the repertoire draws from new sources. One track evokes Chet Baker, another is a salute to Henri Salvador, not to mention a tribute to the piano bars of grand hotels and a piece in the form of an African postcard. Notable are two delightful adaptations, in French s'il vous plaît: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, which brings Django Reinhardt to mind, and Paul Desmond's Take Five, inspired by Richard Anthony's French version, along with two songs with lyrics written by the new Académie des Beaux-Arts member Emmanuel Guibert. Several threads run through these \"Crimes,\" which play like a series of luminous little pastels. First, a scent of eternity, with this elegant way of making all these past-sourced musics feel so current, their assembly defying labels. There are also those strolls through Paris that Patrick Modiano wouldn't disown, passing through the Jardin des Plantes, the banks of the Seine, the Luxembourg Gardens, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and the Porte d'Orléans, with stops at bistros with checkered tablecloths or a Chinese restaurant in Belleville, plus a side trip to Chatou... Then, a definitive restoration of the accordion to its rightful place, thanks to a lineup of virtuosos from different worlds: Raúl Barboza, Daniel Mille, Daniel Colin, Grégory Veux, Christophe Lampidecchia, Francis Varis, and Seppe Vande Walle: all contribute to restoring the instrument's nobility. Les Crimes du musette is also a goldmine for connoisseurs, a true treasure hunt where, among authors, composers, and inspirers, you can find, in addition to the great names already mentioned, Pierre Barouh and Allain Leprest, Juliette Gréco and François Truffaut, Jerome Kern and Tino Rossi, Paul Verlaine and Gino Bordin, Christophe and Joséphine Baker, Johnny Mercer and Ernst Lubitsch, Sanseverino and Alain Jean-Marie, Vincent Segal, Jean-Jacques Milteau, Fats Waller and Gunther Schuller, Glenn Miller... The same goes for the instruments: bendir, clavietta, marimba, musical saw, đàn bầu, Hawaiian guitar, theremin, ukulele, sanshin, woodblock, and castanets, all contribute to the success of this record, synonymous with lost and found happiness. \"The young have the fire, but the old have the light,\" smiles Dominique Cravic, quoting a customer from the bar Le bon coin in his hometown of Dreux. He elaborates: \"This is an album by old guys, and we own it. Colin, Barboza, Milteau, Huck, Crumb, me, we've all passed 70.\" --- Pascal Bussy ---","brand":"Les Primitifs Du Futur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483635949912,"sku":null,"price":20260522.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/les-primitifs-du-futur_les-crimes-du-musette-cd_2026_soc","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}