With Jeanne Added, the voice is always used as the most transparent of emotions. Since her first solo album seven years ago, the singer and musician, initially trained in jazz, considers her music only as a mirror of what she feels. No reason to change with By Your Sidethis third album which began to emerge at the start of the first confinement, in 2020, just before the release of an EP, Air. “This album, I have no other way to describe it than as a kind of end of cycle, she confesses. Besides, it was not easy to write it, because I was really living it when I was writing it.“.
“I’m crossing my fingers that my affect has something in common with that of others.”
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Moreover, as in the shocking title Byethis sensitivity passes more and more by French, where his singing was resolutely English.
All the songs on this third album were recorded at the Ferber studio in Paris, through hard-line discussions with a big name in songwriting, Renaud Létang. Among the new tracks, fewer vocal flights: “I tried to sing in the studio as usual, with a lot more projection, but the voice, as I often say, is a picture of where we are, and it didn’t follow.“. Consequently, Jeanne Added sings in the hollow of the ear, and she recognizes it herself easily: “There’s something more sensitive and sensual about it“.
“For the first time I felt a pressure, from me and that others put on me, this awareness that maybe I had something to lose.”
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A sensual disc, therefore, very beautiful, different. Because Jeanne Added is now expected, after the success of Radiatesher previous album crowned by two Victoires de la Musique, speaking of pressures sometimes coming from outside, which she managed to evacuate because they are “contradictory with writing music“. Let her reassure herself, more than her music, her return is a total success.
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to listen
Jeanne Added, By Your Side (naive). Album available. On tour, notably on October 11 at the Nancy Jazz Pulsations festival and on October 20 at the Grand Rex in Paris.