The Ultra Nuc – On the program this week, the new album of the American and the emergence of a best-of of the English group led by Richard Ashcroft.
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
This singer is one of the emblematic figures of the American independent scene since its inception about fifteen years ago. Tramp et Are We There Are big records, released in 2012 and 2014. On her new album, the young woman changed aesthetics as a composition technique. She has indeed chosen to incorporate her guides – gathered under the name The Attachment Theory – in the creative process from the start. By carrying out old-fashioned “jam-sessions”, during which an electronic instrumentarium full of analog synths was used abundantly. The art of Sharon Van Etten flourishes with it with happiness, pushing the limits of his inspiration, song after song. Less dark than before, its titles show a new power and a momentum of vitality that are happy to hear. By opening the windows large and agreeing to let other musicians enter his room, the artist acquires a new dimension and signs one of the biggest albums of this beginning of the year. She will be in concert on March 6 at the Trianon (Paris 18th), it is not to be missed.
The Verve, This is The Music : the singles 92-98
Richard Ashcroft will sing in the first part of the next Parisian concert by Lenny Kravitz on March 29. A welcome return for the fifties who made the great hours of one of the most beautiful training in English rock in the 1990s, The Verve. In a few years, the group has successfully passed from psychedelic jams to delicious well -structured pop compositions, carried by the skull voice of Ashcroft, very charismatic leader. In 1997, they aligned no less than four solid gold tubes: Sonnet, The Drugs don’t Work, Lucky Manand, above all, Bitter Sweet Symphony. In the shadow of Blur and Oasis, The Verve then signed a real triumph with this song citing the orchestral arrangement of an instrumental version of the The Last Time Rolling Stones. But the melody and the structure of the song are Richard Ashcroft’s pen, Génial Songwriter, who had his rights recognized after a long procedure. Bitter Sweet Symphony is the tree that hides the forest of multiple titles composed by man, considered by Chris Martin de Coldplay as the best singer in the world and as a genius by Noel Gallagher, who knows about it in writing songs. It is unreservedly immersed in this beautiful anthology, which benefits from a first vinyl outing this year, twenty years after its appearance in CD.