FREDDA - Land (+Bonustrack, LP+MP3)

Through her four solo albums and her parallel projects such as Radiomatic, Fredda, with her voice, her vibrant stamp so recognizable, knew, with discretion and force, to secure a special place in the heart of a French audience But also German. She returns with Land, completely invested in the choice of the realization, and affirms more in this fifth disc the richness of her songwriting to the French. The word Land signifies an elsewhere, country or landscape at the will of men. Thus the album is drawn, like an open land that distills songs with pure melodies and colorful arrangements. Fredda arranged and realized with her companion Pascal Parisot, they painted in the same space a painting whose aesthetics they invented, without posture, if not the pleasure of the duo. Taking the sound of the album Le chant des murmures released in 2014, they took common paths to a classical pop folk, Calexico, Nits, desires of American-Mexican brass, guitars inspired by the scene Of Tucson. Fredda walks on the same trail, gleaning new fruits with subtle tastes, as the list of her collaborators of different horizons and united by a sound. Sammy Decoster on the previous album, and now the guitarist Stéphane Louvain (French Cowboy / The Little Rabbits), as well as the bassist and drummer Nicolas Desse , Alexandre Viudes, precious rhythm of pop group Yerevan Tusk. The album was recorded live at home to enjoy an atypical space and an unrestricted instrumentarium: vintage keyboard, piano, ukulele, brass, strings ("what we have, or what we have made without thinking To own it "), then mixed in Tucson by producer-director Jim Waters. On the spot, at her side, she allows herself to record some additional mariachi trumpets and the guitar of Naim Amor (Amor Belhom Duo) on the title "Now". She finds a free echo to her desires with her new label 03H50, based in Marseille, as if nothing was due to chance, since it is the city of her adolescence. Fredda walks with pop ballads in icy rumbas ("Pink Neige", "Pauvre bouches"), towards a more raw ("On the moor") atmosphere or to a classical folk flirting with violins ("Au grand Tomple" ). The texts testify to a poetry of attention and moment, imprinted with Japanese forms, of haiku. Thus we find in the songs a lexical field and symbols borrowed from this particular poetry. The red thread, where the characters are dressed in wooden cloaks, wise guardians of flowers, white seasons, snow, even "Pink Snow" (the muse of the painter Fujita and then Desnos), a river River ") having as background the river Tetcha ultra polluted ... her chiseled words open up several readings, inspired by the exile and the exodus, of a people or a child who has grown up and leaves the family home, punctuated by the urgency of the news, caught up with the bend of " A Zen reading and her love for loved ones and nature. Record Label: Le Pop Musik Style: French Pop