
Three years after a very successful first album, the female duo “A Contrario” has just released a new album entitled: “D’Elles”.
With this second opus, double bassist Marie-Christine D’Acqui and jazz singer Sandrine Deschamps wanted to celebrate women, whether they are famous or unknown. Thus, the two artists continue to plow their furrow with happiness and for our greatest pleasure, always under the artistic direction of Daniel Yvinec.
This album features a mix of original compositions and standards – which the two artists have rearranged for the occasion. There is also the presence on some tracks of two excellent musicians, Jean-Charles Richard (saxophones) and the Franco-Iranian Keyvan Chemirani (percussions).
We are once again touched to the heart by this major chord between singing and double bass. Drawing their inspiration from the destiny of women known (Rosetta Tharpes, Baroness Pannonica, Mary Lou Williams…) or unknown, but clearly belonging to the circle of close family (a child, a mother, a grandmother…), the duo takes us on a feminine musical journey full of grace and subtlety.
The double bass supports the singing without ever weighing it down, constantly highlighting it, and the whole thing expresses with great sensitivity the joys, the sorrows, the wounds of life, but also the freedom to be, the love and the sharing that all the women highlighted in the album have known during their existence. In this, “D’Elles” is much more a manifesto than a tribute.
This duo made to last brings everything one can expect from music: beauty, musicality, improvisation, creativity and intelligence. “D’Elles” elevates the soul and one emerges grown from listening to it.
D’Elles was released under Diego Imbert’s label “Trebim Music“.
Line up:
Marie-Christine D’Acqui: double bass
Sandrine Deschamps: vocals
Guests:
Jean-Charles Richard* (saxophones)
Keyvan Chemirani** (percussions)
Daniel Yvinec: artistic direction
©Photos Nathalie Courau-Roudier
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