Michael Jackson, Dominique A, Etta James, S-Crew…

???? BAD – MICHAEL JACKSON

Released in 1987. The clip was directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Richard Price, shot in Los Angeles against a backdrop of violence and street gangs. Michael Jackson, and at his side, Roberta Flack, Wesley Snipes. A must-see anthology short film. This album arouses immeasurable expectation: it must succeed “Thriller”, the best-selling album in the world, so we can imagine how much Michael Jackson is expected at the turn. Finally no disappointment, Bad will sell more than 40 million copies, one of the best-selling albums in history, after “Thriller”, the one that contains the most songs classified n ° 1 in all the imaginable musical hierarchies.

???? DOMINO – WORLD

His new track which calls for euphoria and the dancing body. Last year already he had invested our summer with “The Sun”, here rebelote. The producer and DJ produced this title with Tom McFarland, half of the English duo Jungle.

???? DISAPPOINTED – FRIDAY AT SEA

???? MURDERS AT NIGHT – ARTHUR H

A memory of 2018 taken from his album “Amour Chien Fou”. He wanted to revolve around sensations such as love, joy and ecstasy. Always close to poetry which leaves all the potential of the language open, which can express inaccessible things, go down inside ourselves and explore hidden things.

????LOVE YOU BETTER – MONOPHONICS

The American psychedelic soul sensation. The San Fransisco band that returns with a concept album that sets to music the stories of the Sage Motel, a quaint stopover hotel for travelers and truckers in the 1940s, located in San Fransisco Bay and which in the 60s and 70s turned into a haunt of bohemians, welcoming all wandering souls a little lost, artists, musicians from all walks of life.

???? THE MOON AND THE SUN – BONNIE BANANA

Project and character. The one who wants her identity to be killed and who, when she’s not Bonnie, wants to be left alone. The moon and the sun in which we were diving, a title from his album “Sexy Planet” which was released 2 years ago. The starting point of her album is, according to her, a bit accidental, linked to the disappearance of a loved one in the summer of 2017. She then put on this disc something damaged, linked to mourning, to the loss of a body and its history. But on this sad and tragic framework she wanted to shed light, so that each of her songs could be perceived as a boost, something that elevates us, pulls us up.

???? THE DEALER – NILUFER YANYA

Extract from his album “Painless” released this year!

???? I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU – ETTA JAMES

The voice of Etta James in 1960 on this blues standard written in 1954 by Willie Dixon, sung for the first time by Muddy Waters but which she made popular by changing a few little bits of lyrics.

???? NEWS FROM THE DISTANT WORLD – DOMINIQUE A

This is the single he released, announcing the release of his album “the real world” on September 16. Its title was inspired precisely by the pollution of screens, their presence everywhere, all the time. For this album Dominique A worked with faithful like David Euverte, multi-instrumentalist and string arranger but also newcomers in his universe whose names he has not yet revealed. He experimented with a new way of recording.

???? BEAUTIFUL EMILY – KEZIAH JONES

2003, she was coiled up hidden on the 8th track of her album “Black Orpheus”. Keziah Jones would work on three projects: an anniversary album which should be released by the end of the year, a kind of compilation of his best or most emblematic titles, an album of poetry on the piano, and another, totally instrumental ranging navigate rather in the universe of the jazz.

???? 2001 – S CREW

Title of their new album “SZR 2001”, SZR for Seine Zoo Records, Nekfeu’s label and 2001 for the year of creation of their group. Zu.

???? I AM AFRICAN – RACHID TAHA

Piece from the album “I am African” published posthumously in September 2019. One year after the death of Rachid Taha, the abundant album he had completed during his lifetime. This disc, finished in June then mixed and mastered in July 2018, was ready when the Algerian singer, who had never obtained French nationality, died of a heart attack in his sleep on September 12, 2018. hoarse, warm and mischievous voice, Rachid Taha sings on this album in Arabic and French about love, nomadism and the night, but he is also political, casually, and knits tasty puns.

???? MO JODI – DELGRES

The character whose spirit sponsors the music of the trio, Louis Delgres, is a great resister to the reestablishment of slavery under Napoleon. Obscure hero, he is very present in the identity of Pascal Danaë whose great-great grandmother would have been born free if he had won his fight. Guitarist and singer in the group Rivière Noire, his Creole blues project was born one day when, in the Netherlands, he started playing Dobro. The first piece set up by the musicians, Mo Jodi and which will give its title to this album, is a decisive marker in their journey because it speaks precisely of Louis Delgres.

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