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Chronique amazon.fr:
Entre deux tournages, Jacques Dutronc rend son habituelle visite discographique. La dernière remonte aux Brèves rencontres de 1995, où se croisaient déjà David Mc Neil et Thomas Dutronc. À soixante ans, le chanteur fête ses retrouvailles avec Jacques Lanzmann, écrivain-journaliste abandonné en 1980 pendant les commémorations de Guerre et Paix célébrées avec Serge Gainsbourg. Si la dérision mi-chantée, mi-parlée suivant les méthodes de Gainsbarre reste le fer de lance du tandem, "Face à la merde" (comme un lointain écho de "Merde in France"), "La Vie en live" ou "Madame l'Existence", les deux Jacques savent aussi lâcher l'ironie pour la tendresse et la pudeur "C'est peut-être ça" ou "Voulez-vous". Et là, Jacques Dutronc se la joue crooner avec grand orchestre et tapis de violons, de harpes et de hautbois. Il revisite le patrimoine via Mouloudji "Un jour tu verras" ou Eddie Constantine "L'Homme et l'Enfant", reprises nostalgiques découlant peut-être de ce magnifique duo interprété avec Françoise Hardy en 2000, "Puisque vous partez en voyage". Enregistré entre Paris et son fief corse, le 13e album studio de Jacques Dutronc prend souvent des allures jazzy, à la Django Reinhardt, un choix fidèle à sa légendaire nonchalance. --Sabrina Silamo


A Taste of Bittersweet:
One of the most important forces in popular music, Jacques Dutronc is all but unknown in America. And it is our loss. While his wife, Francoise Hardy has bridged the gap by recording a number of English language songs, Dutronc has never made that particular compromise. However, listening to his music (and with the help of Babelfish) you don't need to be fluent in French to understand you are hearing one of the most remarkable voices in popular culture today....and for the last 30 years. He is referred to the Man with the Cigar and Black Glasses...ironic, audacious, terminally hip, and sexy---he is the essence of cool. And yet, "Madame L'Existence" is a sober and somewhat bittersweet album which drops the facade of nonchalance and projects a mature man asking all the questions which come in one's middle years. Yes, Dutronc is back...and he is as great as he ever was...yet he shows much more of himself and his remarkable voice which will speaks to all of us, no matter what our language. People new to Dutronc might wish to sample him in his excellent live performance album, "Dutronc au Casino" which he did about ten years ago. That and Madame L'Existence are an excellent introduction this wonderful artist....and after a few listens (and with the help of Babelfish, you will return for more. (also Dutronc is one of the most important actors in France, as well....and has been called to Yves Montand of his generation.)


Artist:Jacques Dutronc
Binding:Audio CD
EAN:5099751122425
Format:Import
Original Release Date:2003-07-01
Release Date:2003-05-26


Tracks:
  • Madame l'Existence
  • Vie en Live
  • Jour Tu Verras
  • Face À la Merde
  • Homme et l'Enfant - Jacques Dutronc,
  • Voulez Vous
  • Ere de Rien
  • Transat en Solitaire
  • C'est Peut Étre Ça
  • Sainte Suzanne
  • Dou Douce



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