Montcuq Song to Text Festival: Dorothée Daniel, Garance, Sophie Le Cam, Marie-Thérèse Orain, Raphaëlle Saudinos sing Boby Lapointe

With Dorothée Daniel (piano and arrangements), Garance, Marie-Thérèse Orain, Raphaëlle Saudinos, Sophie Le Cam.

Words and music: Boby Lapointe.

My meeting with the artist came through TV and a presentation of an extract from Truffaut's Tirez sur le pianiste where he is accompanied on the screen by Charles Aznavour on the piano and sings Avanie et Frambois' with subtitles... But It was a long time later that I realized what color his Nivernais esthete was (resident of Nevers, France, if you can't 'see', try it orally). If you have found your 'microgrooves', we should be able to measure which songs you like... On this CD there are 6 out of 14 that I would happily play on repeat. Of course the five performers left their mark on the songs, but they did so with finesse. Just so that we see that others can sing them with respect, without homage, because they are good.
So I keep for My Pleasure: Madam' mado told me, at least for the last four words, Revenge because she can tolerate being sung out of tune and at the top of her lungs (try it, it's relieving), Understands who can because that it's a beautiful love song, It's going to come for its tenderness, Avanie and raspberry for these 'more advantages' which 'advantage more' and of course Your Katie left you for the diction exercise and the alarm clock. The others I save for when I fancy a little bit of fantasy or Insomnia... And I just imagined that it would be good if for a few end-of-year school parties there was a few teachers who put on a show with their students with songs by Boby Lapointe: you imagine a mixed choir of around twenty children singing La Maman des Poissons or Revanche…