GABI HARTMANN - Little Song Lines | LP

After the great success of her eponymous debut album, an international tour (New York, Berlin, London, Istanbul, Tokyo,...) and several sold-out dates at La Seine Musicale, Les Francos de La Rochelle and La Cigale, and before a major show at the Olympia, France's #1 Jazz artist unveils a brand new acoustic guitar/vocal EP with folk accents... Gabi Hartmann's new EP "Little Songlines" is conceived as an interlude, a breath, between her first album and her second, currently in preparation. Composed of live-recorded acoustic tracks, Gabi sings while accompanying herself on guitar, without any click track and very few arrangements. In the tradition of folk singer-songwriters, in an intimate atmosphere, the recording captures the essence of the songs, their stories, in their purest and rawest forms. The title, Little Songlines, is inspired by the songlines of Australian Aborigines, a veritable system, a vast labyrinth of invisible paths like a desert map, where songs act as guardians of the spiritual world of the ancestors. What if songs were, for artists, powerful vectors of memories, allowing them to connect with strong emotions to find answers to their deepest questions? From this secret and sad place, Gabi Hartmann shares a more intimate part of herself, presenting not only new versions of tracks from her previous album, but also drawing inspiration from a cover by Mexican-American singer-songwriter Lhasa de Sela (who has a great influence on Gabi's work and is also a prominent female role model). The EP also features a new song, 'Nowhere To Hide', the French song 'L'amour incompris' and a protest track 'Azza Fi Awak', magnified by flautist Ghandi Adam. Not to mention the bonus track, the magnificent duet between Gabi and Moh Kouyaté 'Tanoun'...Again and again, Gabi continues to celebrate the blending of cultures.