By adding the five new songs from this mini-album to the five others from his first EP, Push, released last August, Tina Leon offers us a delightful debut album that finds its balance between soul song and traditional R&B and modern production. The musician was able to count on many friends, who owe her a lot and who gathered around her to help her launch her personal project: Marie-Christine Depestre (her real name) is a chorister in great demand in the middle. Alex McMahon, Ariane Moffatt, Félix Petit (director of Les Louanges and Hubert Lenoir), among other accomplished people, lend a hand, as instrumentalists or producers. Delicate hip-hop touches appear on the rhythm of Tiens moi and of float (which we hear like a nod to I Want You Back of the Jackson 5 and to those who sampled her), the orchestrations give as much importance to the brass as to the strings, without masking the finesse of the grain and the softness of the tremolo of this musician very capable of flying on her own wings.
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