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After a first selection, proposed in early October, of books on music, here is a second, this time of six works, among the many on this theme that accompanies the fall 2022 school year of the edition. There is song with Bashung, hip-hop with cut killer, guitarist Jimi Hendrix puts in images, an encyclopedia youth on rap, portraits of 150 drum personalities and the influence of Marcel Proust on Oxmo Puccino .
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In the wake of the Gainsbook (Paperback, 2019), a sum that plunges us behind the scenes of the albums and songs of “the man at the head of cabbage” during their recording process, that’s around by Alain Bashung to have the honors of the same editorial concept. Seghers editions have entrusted this heavy task to the former editor of the inrockuptibles Christophe Conte, who had the privilege of meeting on several occasions the late singer, died in 2009 at the age of 61.
For the development of in studio with Bashung, Christophe Conte collected the testimonies of more than sixty close collaborators in the French rock figure, all periods combined, including his favorite lyricists Jean Fauque and Boris Bergman, English producer Ian Caple, American guitarist Marc Ribot, Valentins or Dominique A…
Each chapter chronologically goes up the thread of the thirteen albums, since the confidential beginnings of Roman-Photo (1977) in Bleu Pétole (2009) and posthumous upstream (2018) through experiments with Gainsbarre on Play Bessures (1982 ), the exile at Memphis of Osez Joséphine (1991), without forgetting the military fantasy consecration (1998).
The “Bashung method” – its art of collage and its sense of the collective – is dissected with erudition without addressing exclusively to experienced musicians. The work is full of tasty anecdotes and it is generously illustrated with photos and documents, some unpublished. Note, the parallel output of an audio complement in the studio with Bashung, with five titles from the TV movie Les cemetières des cars (1983), reworked in their long versions. Franck Colombani
The autobiographical mixtape of the DJ Cut Killer
This is the most popular hip-hop DJ in France. DJ Snake, an international star who wrote the preface to this book, is one of his biggest fans, it is “my DJ Number 1”, and Joey Starr, his most regular ceremony in evenings as explosive as festive .
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