{"product_id":"michel-houellebecq-frederic-lo_souvenez-vous-de-lhomme_2026_mdl","title":"Souvenez-Vous De L'Homme","description":"The blue color of the sky; a beer in a Parisian café; a glass of red wine; the battered poetry of Daniel Darc; the memory of the sea; the solitude of creation; Psalm XXIII... It's not hard to see that these two men share several passions and that ultimately, their meeting wasn't as coincidental as some might think... Of Michel Houellebecq, we know, of course, his novels translated into over 40 languages, his Goncourt Prize (The Map and the Territory, 2010), his few appearances on the big screen, his controversies, but probably less so a first album released exactly a quarter of a century ago on the Tricatel label. Behind \"Présence Humaine\" (a cult album orchestrated by Bertrand Burgalat and the musicians of Eiffel and the almost involuntary progenitor of the band AS Dragon), the shadows of \"L'Homme à la Tête de Chou\", a disillusioned Procol Harum, and a world-weary Burt Bacharach hovered over Houellebecq's poems. Twelve thousand copies and a few concerts later, the writer decided, or so we thought, to bid farewell to the stage to better make headlines and taste literary success. Of Frédéric Lo, we know, of course, that he is an outstanding lyricist, composer, arranger, and producer, author of a sublime fourth solo album (L'Outrebleu, released last March), and a master in the art of working in pairs: the English Bill Pritchard and Peter Doherty know a thing or two about it. He is also a savior, a maker of pop(ular) miracles. The parable has been told a thousand times but we never tire of it: by reaching out to a neighbor named Daniel Darc, he ended up signing one of the most beautiful albums of French song, whose title already announced the pains... At the time of \"Crèvecœur\", the duo signed the soundtrack of a kind of ideal melancholy, which captivated, among many other mourners, a weeping Michel Houellebecq. Originally, Houellebecq and Frédéric Lo met for the tribute album that Lo was concocting for the tenth anniversary of Daniel Darc's passing. But the version they recorded of \"Psaume XXIII\" was, to their great dismay, rejected by the label and therefore did not appear on the final version of \"Cœur Sacré\" (2023). Fortunately, every cloud has a silver lining – or almost. The two men decided to go a little further in their collaboration. So, in his studio in Pantin, Lo set the writer's words to music. Music close to the bone, draped in electronics, dressed in piano and antediluvian drum machines, often minimalist, sometimes repetitive music, a perfect setting for twelve texts that question and reflect on the past and future of man — if indeed there is one. Reflections on the human condition in the 21st century, a work of anticipation imagined by two eternally modern \"young people\", \"Souvenez-Vous de l'Homme\" is an album.","brand":"Michel Houellebecq \u0026 Frederic Lo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56568026202456,"sku":null,"price":20260306.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3700604779421.jpg?v=1769711975","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/michel-houellebecq-frederic-lo_souvenez-vous-de-lhomme_2026_mdl","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}