Festival de la Chanson à Texte de Montcuq : Dorothée Daniel, Garance, Sophie Le Cam, Marie-Thérèse Orain, Raphaëlle Saudinos chantent Boby Lapointe

With Dorothée Daniel (piano and arrangements), Garance, Marie-Thérèse Orain, Raphaëlle Saudinos, Sophie Le Cam. Lyrics and music: Boby Lapointe. My encounter with the artist came via TV and a screening of an extract from Truffaut?s Tirez sur le pianiste, in which he is accompanied on screen by Charles Aznavour on piano, singing Avanie et Frambois? with subtitles? But it was a long time later that I realized what a colorful Nivernais aesthete he was (from Nevers, France, if you can?t see, try speaking). If you've got your ?LPs? back, we should be able to measure which songs you like best? On this CD, there are 6 out of 14 that I'd be happy to play over and over again. Of course, the five singers have put their stamp on the songs, but they've done it with finesse. Just so we realize that others can sing them with respect, without homage, because they are good. So, for Mon Plaisir, I'm keeping Madam? mado m?a dit, at least for the last four words, Revanche because it can stand being sung off-key and at the top of one?s lungs (try it, it?s a relief), Comprend qui peut because it?s a beautiful love song, Ça va ça vient for its tenderness, Avanie et framboise for those ?davantage d?avantages? that ?avantagent davantage? and of course Ta Katie t?a quitté for the diction exercise and the alarm clock. The others I'm saving for when I fancy a bit of fantasy or Insomnia? And I just imagined how nice it would be if, for a few end-of-year school parties, a few teachers put on a Boby Lapointe show with their pupils: can you imagine a mixed choir of around twenty children singing La Maman des poissons or Revanche?