Sujet libre

Art Mengo

Mengo’s world has been limited too often to the themes of the songs that have given him his reputation – love, and the longing and heartbreak it involves… In response to this far too reductive image, the Toulousain who loves wide open spaces has chosen to forget any notion of categories or compartments, formats, styles; everything that could restrict or constrain [...]

Buscando la luz

“Buscando la Luz” is this quartet’s second opus. This new repertory was built progressively, it has developed naturally in the course of time. We’ve been kneading it, transforming it until the very last moments of this recording. I wish this collective dynamics to endure and evolve, I wish it to carry on this search for sounds which is ours, this search for light... “Buscando la Luz” is both Eduardo Chillida’s [...]

Berceuses du monde entier

Lullabies of the whole world

Mothers of the whole world, lullaby is your singing. Its charm allays sighs and sobs. Its melody tames the night and its evil spells. Reassuring presence, almost entrancing, which accompanies us beyond the darkness as it enveloped us already before our birth. Crystalline or mellow voices, guttural or suaves, it is thanks to your love singing that we grow [...]

El sentido del aire

Juan Carmona

El sentido del aire marks a new stage in the constant return to grass roots, to the original wellspring of his inspiration and practice of flamenco.
Thanks to the body of experience and wealth of encounters he has behind him, Juan Carmona now offers a repertoire as brilliant as it is dense and haunting, limpid as spring water, subtle as [...]

Five Men Swinging

Les Pommes de ma douche

Today Les Pommes set off in the direction of the Americas – or at least they turn their plectrum or bow or accordion in that direction so they can take up with the real cradle(s) of swing. They’ve sought it out in every genre of American music, from Tin Pan Alley (‘Lady is a Tramp’, ‘Night & Day’) to Hollywood (‘Mannix’), via Kansas [...]