Monday 28 June 2010

RENCONTRE AVEC ARNAUD FLEURENT-DIDER A FRANCOFOLIES DE MONTREAL


Above: setlist from L’Espace vert Desjardins

More on FrancoFolies de Montréal in due course.

The chance to see Arnaud Fleurent-Didier live and catch up with the man was pretty special. I’ve gone on about the album La Reproduction elsewhere, so here’s a snapshot of the Montréal experience: http://www.rockfort.info/content.aspx?cid=231

There’s no doubt that La Reproduction is a benchmark album, and it intrigued to find out how it might come over live.

Some feel that it’s a bit deliberate, the result of an experiment cooked up in a laboratory. But a listen to the album reminds that this is more than that: it’s living, breathing. And live – whatever the effort and stress involved with recasting, rearranging – it was stunning to hear these pared-down, newly-energised takes on the songs. Didier acknowledges that this is a work in progress. It can only get more striking.

1 comment:

  1. thanks for the article on arnaud, hope you get to review his album in mojo, the world needs his music.

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