The Price of Love, by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
The Price of Love, a song enveloped in a nocturnal aura, both dramatic and romantic, is indicative of one of the greatest qualities of Raise the Roof, second collaboration between Alison Krauss and Robert Plant: the perfect musical harmony between the two performers. This country-folk record, with more rock accents here and more bluegrass there, is of great finesse.
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Raise the Roof, by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Chega Mais, by CéU
Like just about everything CéU has touched since its inception, Um Gosto de Sol is full of grace and energy that also carries Chega Mais, song borrowed from Rita Lee. You don’t need to find all the transcendent covers to taste these sambas of different colors, offered in a mostly acoustic pop case and enhanced by the nuanced playing of guitarist Andreas Kisser (Sepultura).
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Um Gosto de Sol, by CéU
Masked Blues, by François Bourassa
Masked Blues, like everything on this first solo flight by pianist François Bourassa, is of great beauty. The impact of silence combines modern jazz and contemporary music with what that can mean of abstraction and dissonance, but without ever losing sight of the emotion or the listener. We do not dive into it, we let ourselves be taken in.
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The impact of silence, by François Bourassa
Beauty, by Ariane Moffatt
There is a little everything that Ariane Moffatt knows how to do well here: marriage of acoustic and electronic tones, delicate ballads, mellow romanticism and cloudy passages. And yet, nothing that makesCrimson a beautiful record. It is this je ne sais quoi that emanates from Ariane Moffatt from Beauty, the first piece, and which transcends everything: maturity, vulnerability, abandonment.
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Crimson, by Ariane Moffatt
Chismiten, by Mdou Moctar
On Chismiten, the desert blues takes on a very rocky tangent, almost “Hendrixian”. Mdou Moctar creates powerful waves and does not hesitate to use sound effects which root his melodies as much as they make his atmospheres floating. And even when he lowers the volume, leaving more room for choirs and rhythms, he never loses the fiery that sets him apart.
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Africa victim, by Mdou Moctar