Sébastien Tellier
La Ritournelle

Limited edition for Record Store Day 2022.

Raï is the music of a youth hungover from Algeria's recent independence. It became a space for a liberated, transgressive dialogue that told the social truths of its time -- an up-front yet poetic voice that covers the taboos and frustrations of daily life, expressing emotion without detour. This voice is heard at weddings, cabarets, in the nightclubs of the Oranese coast, and casually on the street... With the boom of the audio cassette, an avalanche of raï tapes were produced in Oran and diffused all over the world. Both women and men sang and listened to the new sound, as raï is intimately tied to parties, alcohol and the night. With the spontaneous improvisation of its singers as the main part of each song, raï keeps reinventing itself. In this style, Cheb Hasni, along with Cheb Nasro, incarnates a second generation of musicians. With the "love raï", or sentimental raï, Hasni sings about love, passion and its setbacks -- moving away from the bittersweet daily chronicles of the first chebs and chebates. Having recorded nearly 150 cassettes, Cheb Hasni remains one of the most prolific and talented raï singers of his generation. Almost thirty years after his death, this three-volume compilation of rare tracks from his cassette releases on the Oriental Music Production label is a tribute to the lasting legacy of Cheb Hasni -- ya raï! The third volume of three is presented here.CHEB HASNIVol 3 Outre National

Born from a carte blanche at Cave12 in Geneva in October 2016, TOUT BLEU is the solo project of SIMONE AUBERT (guitarist in MASSICOT / drummer and singer in HYPERCULTE) which has developed into a trio, accompanied by the electronics of the Stakhanovist musician POL, and the deeply ample & masterful electrified violin played by AGATHE MAX. Simone explores with her first album, a sort of atmospheric no-wave, a pre-rock invitation of travel and introspection. Simone's voice, reminiscent of Siouxie, Anne Clark or Nico arises on mesmerizing sound texture and calls as much to a new collective meaning than a crying out, a desperate shout alone, far from all, in the middle of the forest. The result is an all-encompassing music, dark, tense but full of sweetness and nourished with hope.crédits

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Après “Vertigo”, premier album sorti en 2018, revoilà les parisiens de BLOW avec le bien nommé “Shake The Disease”. Produit par Crayon, cet album est une collection de morceaux plus épurés, plus organiques. Si leurs méthodes d'enregistrement et la vie en studio ont changé, on retrouve la même équipe à l'écriture et à la composition : Quentin aux textes, Thomas à la basse, et Jean à la guitare.Pour celles et ceux qui auraient un besoin d'étiquettes et de traçabilité, citons des sources qui nourrissent le groupe depuis des années : Pink Floyd, Moderat, Darkside, Jungle, les Beatles, Weather Report, Anderson Paak, Flying Lotus, Jai Paul. Ces sources sont multiples. Rien d'anormal pour un groupe curieux et attaché à la diversité. Pour l'image, les mots, on pense à ceux de Ian Curtis, de Jim Morrison.