ENGLISH TEXTS the same style: hearty and powerful. Completely wrong. Here, elegance and smoothness call for a winter dish, yes, but one you can adapt: a rack of lamb with oriental spices, a local duck breast but not heavy, a fine rib steak served with grilled vegetables and salad. And with a red wine, avoid cheese! Prefer its little brother in dry white, the Pacherenc-du-Vic-Bilh appellation, aged for two years in 600-litre barrels.
MU- SIQUE MAES- TRO!
BY SERGE OKEY
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U2: Days of Ash Forty-three years after War and its mythical“ Sunday Bloody Sunday”, U2 are still at war for peace. Bono, The Edge & Co stunned the entire rock planet by releasing, on Ash Wednesday( February 18), a six-track EP to be heard as a“ Before” ahead of their forthcoming album announced for release later this year.“ These songs could not wait to be unveiled to the world. They are songs of defiance and dismay, of lamentation,” the band explained. From Minneapolis to Ukraine, via Iran, Sudan, Gaza and Israel, this maxi denounces injustice and pays tribute to several figures of freedom. Musically, the best is unquestionably found in the first two tracks and the final one. Between fever, ballad and ode, substance prevails over style. But U2 remain on the front line.
Blue Samu:( K) NOT In the land of Wellington and Waregem, Salomé dos Santos, by her real name, is no longer a yearling( 30 years old), but she has all the hallmarks of a new revelation. Not everything is perfectly polished across this eleven-track debut long-format release after ten years on stage, but the overall impression is more than positive and several gems invite repeated listening with delight. Starting with the impeccable“ Nonsense” and the effective“ Breakfast”. Noticed as a support act for Angèle, this Belgian-Portuguese artist has everything going for her: flow, energy, sensitivity, and above all a solid eclecticism. It sounds like rap, soul, R & B, electro, with even a few hints of fado. A paradoxically very modern yet singular record. An artist finally well launched from the stalls.
Kompromat: Playing, Praying Between two Monets, refrains, Pomme and Aphex Twin, a song closes Klapisch’ s latest film La venue de l’ avenir with hysteria:“ No stranger to heartbreak”. A completely mad track at the heart of this powerful collaboration between two heavyweights of the electro scene: Rebeka
Warrior and Vitalic. More striking than impressionistic, it sets the tone for a cutting-edge opus, as Rahim Redcar( formerly Christine and the Queens) sings about“ la fureur de vivre”. Switching freely between English and French, the lyrics can seem as raw as steak tartare. But these two masters of electro body music( EBM), the current armed wing of new wave, are unmatched when it comes to plunging the dancefloor into dark adrenaline, propelled by sensual sighs until the end of the night. Like an impression at sunset. Without compromise.
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