L'Imperatrice - Matahari - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With two successful albums and a sold-out world tour under their belt, Paris-based L'Impératrice have matriculated from a good-times instrumental act created by music critic Charles de Boisseguin to a six-piece powerhouse whose sashaying mixes of funk and French Touch, disco and deep house now include the fetching vocals of singer Flore Benguigui. Their new album Pulsar, is a focused but far-reaching record, the jubilant testament of a band with plenty to say and the skills to say it themselves. Across 10 tracks, L'Impératrice move freely and authoritatively among the sounds they love, bridging hip-hop, kosmische, and modern pop with their most unabashed embraces of French Touch and international house ever. Benguigui, meanwhile, boldly sings of self-empowerment by shirking beauty standards, ageism, and drab normalcy, with a little help from an exciting set of new friends.A longtime fan who had seen the band multiple times, Maggie Rogers flew to Paris to lead the svelte and graceful InchAny Way,Inch approaching the song with an unabashed vim. They had a similar encounter with Erick the Architect, who was so enthusiastic about the sample- based and panoramic InchSweet & SublimeInch that Benguigui scrapped one of her own verses to make more room for him. And Italian singer Fabiana Martone (Nu Genea) crafted the melody for InchDanza MariluInch the moment she heard it's disco thump. Throughout these 10 songs, L'Impératrice espouses the rare willingness to be real about life and it's woes while also sounding like a perfect picture of joy. Pulsar opens like a window being slid open onto an unimagined world. During the title-track finale, where a casual confession of suffering climbs into a mighty climax rooted in redemption, the band intertwines dubstep, turntablism, and symphonic strings to offer a bracing conclusion however we are is OK. Album Tracks 1. Cosmogonie

Detriti da canti precari (2017), a cycle of 14 short pieces, is the result of a profound artistic dialog between the composer Filippo Perocco (*1972) and the Ensemble L'Imaginaire. It occupies an important place in the ensemble's repertoire and stands for collaboration driven by a shared passion for sound, friendship and freedom. Album Tracks 1. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto soffocato 2. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da una canzone a ballo 3. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto in acquapietra 4. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto anonimo 5. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto desueto 6. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto di luglio 7. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto del Sile 8. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto 'nenia' 9. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto prima del viaggio 10. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto senza peso 11. Detriti da Canti Precari~Piccolo canto del foco incordo 12. Detriti da Canti Precari~Piccolo canto solitario 13. Detriti da Canti Precari~Da un canto di profilo 14. Detriti da Canti Precari~Canzona detta l'imaginaria

Album Tracks 1. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Sonade 2. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Allemande 3. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Courante 4. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Seconde Courante 5. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Sarabande 6. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Gigue Louree 7. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Gavotte 8. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Rondeau 9. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Bourree and Double 10. L'espagnole (Les Nations) Passacaille 11. Treizieme Concert (Les Gouts-Reunis) Vivement 12. Treizieme Concert (Les Gouts-Reunis) Air Agreablement 13. Treizieme Concert (Les Gouts-Reunis) Sarabande 14. Treizieme Concert (Les Gouts-Reunis) Chaconne Legere 15. La Piemontoise (Les Nations) Sonade 16. La Piemontoise (Les Nations) Allemande 17. La Piemontoise (Les Nations) Courante 18. La Piemontoise (Les Nations) Seconde Courante 19. La Piemontoise (Les Nations) Sarabande 20. La Piemontoise (Les Nations) Rondeau 21. La Piemontoise (Les Nations) Gigue