Styles: Vocal
Year: 2024
Time: 41:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 95,4 MB
Art: Front
(2:51) 1. Plus je t’embrasse
(4:05) 2. Ménilmontant
(3:07) 3. Nuages
(2:52) 4. De temps en temps
(3:42) 5. Padam padam
(2:58) 6. La mer
(4:06) 7. Ordinaire
(6:06) 8. Mal de vivre
(4:12) 9. Les eaux de Mars
(3:42) 10. Que reste-t-il de nos amours?
(3:39) 11. Parlez-moi d’amour
“For me, singing in French is a physical, sensory experience ... It’s a new language in which I can express myself artistically and be vulnerable.” (Jill Barber under her homepage)
It is already the fourth album with/by JILL BARBER, which we discuss under our side and – let's say it her voice is still getting used to. Many say guarantees: “Wow, a really charismatic voice that is recognized again always and everywhere!”
Others, on the other hand, could also notice: “Oh, strange this voice, which gives the songs a clearly recognizable, but somehow sometimes childlike charisma in high tones!”
It is always a matter of subjective (listening) feeling – and that is decisive and decisive in music. But especially with JILL BARBER the boundaries of sky high jayscent to quite annoyed are quite fluent.
This feeling does not change on their current album “ ENCORE! ”. But, but, but...
...and here we would be at a real plus point in the context of her 2024 album: “ ENCORE! “ Barbers (second) purely French-language album, which follows her most successful (also French-language) album “Chansons” from 2013, in which she covered a large number of classic French chansons, which accompany the language of this language in the French language.
And right here – with her now eleven-year-old album JILL BARBER ENCORE!is once again using “ENCORE!”: Where “Chansons” stopped, she is now setting her new interpretations of French-language classics, including songs by BLOSSOM DEARIE, ROBERT CHARLEBOIS, CHARLES TRENET, who now she now include the legendary PIdeveloped the extra classreation, which would certainly have inspired the good Edith in this intensity, away.
Thus, “ ENCORE!” actually becomes an absolutely fascinating album for friends of French chansons, which, in addition to the specially chosen cover versions, the quiet chanson and cocktail lounge atmosphere, which can probably best be described as the adjective 'dreamlike'.
But it is not only the aura of the French Chanteuse Piaf, which the Canadian musician knows how to capture perfectly, also another musician, this time from a completely different genre, revives her in an inimitable way with “De temps en temps”: the American-born, dancing and singing actress JOSEPHINE BAKER, who accepted French citizenship in 1937 and belonged to the Resistance in the Second World War. With her fascinating as well as very revealing manner, she was the muse of many artists and was considered the 'Black Venus'.
It is precisely this aura that JILL BARBER revives with her Baker song like a 'White Venus' by noting herself: "The black-American, Anglophone Joséphine Baker made this song famous in 1939 and later became one of the greatest stars in France. At that time, it was daring for a woman to sing about her desire for physical affection without the need for a relationship and I think it is still quite sexy and empowering today.”
And that behind every note and many texts on “ ENCORE!” now also a lot of eroticism plays a big role, is quite striking. But eroticism and chanson basically often belong as closely together as the swing and the big band, which also often sounds on Barber's album. But the French chanson is simply much more intimate, which can be enjoyed to the fullest of this finely designed yellow LP, which is why another special song from the LP is “Oridinaire”, which JILL BARBER explicitly emphasizes: “When I first heard this classic by Robert Charlebois, I was completely enchanted... It is a conjuring of a famous singer. I approached this performance like an actress by becoming the central figure of the song in all her fragility. In combination with Drew's lush and dramatic string orchestration, this is really pure emotion.”
But not only “Ordinaire” is the pure emotion on “ENCORE! “.
Basically, it is each of the 11 songs that literally strip before us in the versions of the Canadian musician until we discover her whole beauty. And this is exactly where this extraordinary voice from JILL BARBER fits perfectly.
FAZIT: One decade after her world success “Chanson” JILL BARBER once again collaborates with the Grammy-nominated producer Drew Jurecka and the musicians, who accompanied her eleven years earlier on “Chanson’s” (their most successful album to date) to produce “ENCORE!”, the long-awaited sequel. “ ENCORE!” is a wonderfully arranged and richly orchestrated album that contains completely new interpretations of classic songs by Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Blossom Dearie, Django Reinhardt, Robert Charlebois, Josephine Baker and others, and continues the atmosphere like Aura, with which JILL BARBER has already conquered the hearts of their fans with the French language and selected cover songs.
However, it will become apparent whether, after so many years, there is still favourable to the easing musical times for this 11-year-old success concept. “ ENCORE!” is a successful 'addition' of the "Chansons" album. Especially recommended is the coloured vinyl pressing, which spreads a similarly warm and relaxed-dream mood on the turntable as the songs between the grooves.
http://www.musikreviews.de/reviews/2024/Jill-Barber/ENCORE/
Personnel: Vocals - Jill Barber; Bass - Chris Banks; Guitar - Nathan Hiltz, Justin DuHaime; Others - Winds, strings, harps, bandoneo, accordion
Encore!
