CD "Salades de filles" Jean Claude Vannier

SALADES DE FILLES

TELERAMA

Not calibrated, not fashionable. Widely referenced, and yet fundamentally outside the box. If we had known nothing about its provenance, we would have wondered for a long time where such a record could have come from... Unreleased from the 1970s? Original soundtrack to a never-released musical?

Salades de Filles is the latest creation by Jean-Claude Vannier, a reference musician in French song (who notably worked on Gainsbourg's Melody Nelson), and who discreetly pursues a free and protean career as a singer and arranger. , composer and author. This time, he signed and arranged around ten titles for three young women in their twenties, including his daughter.

Each sings in turn, or joins her voice to that of the others, creating a strangely cinematic album, a series of often spicy skits, with Gainsbourian – or rather Vannierian – echoes. The delicious enumeration of swear words in Fortunately we were pretty recalls the pointed impertinence of Brigitte Fontaine. The tension of Café de la discorde, as much played as sung, almost makes it a theatrical piece. The suspended story of School Girl's Day is becoming worrying...

Everywhere, the originality is highlighted by that of the sounds and musical toys that Vannier handles like a facetious adult. As young as its singers.

— Valérie Lehoux