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This is Carla Bruni's long awaited fourth album. The musician simultaneously explores a whole range of territories: folk, pop and traditional French song, as well as more exotic country, backed by Benedicte Schmitt's production. It was recorded at Labomatic with a group of elite musicians who know how to give it their all without ever going over the top. As usual, she recorded her vocals in her home at night, far from the racket and responsibilities....

Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An icon and iconoclast. His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo, provocation,...