JULIE FUCHS - I want you | CD

When one of the greatest sopranos of our time performs the most beautiful melodies by Erik Satie and from the Belle Époque of the early 20th century with four virtuoso musicians... An audacious and personal tribute to freedom, lightness, and fantasy! "What could Satie have heard while strolling through Paris and frequenting its cabarets?" wonders Julie Fuchs. She answers this question with a journey guided by "a variety of styles." This "trademark" is dear to her and is often recognized in the singer's projects. A variety that the composer would undoubtedly have applauded, as he pursued an artistic path as singular as it was original, far from academia, and in perpetual renewal. This variety is also ensured by the arrangements, signed by Cyrille Lehn, Arthur Lavandier, and Thibault Perrine, rich in delicious instrumental combinations where accordion, violin, double bass, and piano meet (Félicien Brut, Alexis Cardenas, Davide Vittone, Alphonse Cemin). Satie strolls through this album as he did through Paris: both everywhere present and elusive. Julie Fuchs, with an infectious joy of sharing, makes eras, styles, words, and sounds converse. She recreates the atmosphere of an artistic Paris in full effervescence, that of cabarets, salons, and concert halls, where song, humor, tenderness, and modernity mingle. A journey both scholarly and light, driven by the conviction that music, as Satie said, is above all a matter of sincerity, imagination, and freedom.