It’s no secret that I’m very fond of Françoiz Breut, she was one of my first guests at KPFK, and many of her records are amongst my favorites, particularly 2008’s A l’aveuglette which contains one of my absolute favorites of this first decade of the 21st century, “Les Jeunes Pousses” (clearly she’s such a favorite I can’t stop using the word favorite in order to describe her!). Four years was a long time to wait for new music, but a couple of months ago, she released La Chirurgie Des Sentiments in France. As she’s done on many of her prior records, there’s a slight shift in her sound. Whereas A l’aveuglette felt like an intimate record, produced effortlessly in a midnight session at a friend’s apartment, La Chirurgie Des Sentiment has the sound of an album recorded in a funky and smoky Parisian bar around 4am. Much of this is related to the use of keyboards, often layered around and on top of each other and sampled/found sounds throughout the record. “Marie-Lise” showcases this latest change in sound from Breut, for those having trouble getting a hold of this album in the States, there is a digital link to the album on Françoiz Breut’s bandcamp page. Hopefully we’ll get a US release for the album in 2013. As was the case with her last record, don’t be surprised if this ends up in my “Best Of” lists for this year and next!
Here’s another track, “Bruxelles (BXL) Bleuette,” that also gives a strong sense of the different style Françoiz is using on this album: