Stephane Varupenne - La Comedie-Francaise Chante Gainsbourg - VINYL LP

Quiet Money gets loud! The return of Az to the forefront of the rap scene is officially marked by his elevated new album, Doe Or Die III. The RIAA certified platinum artist with long time collaborators like Nas, The Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, and many Hip Hop icons is back to finish the trilogy which started 30 years ago, reminding the rap game that his legacy is forever cemented. Following the massive success of his previous masterpiece, this new body of work serves as an evolution from his first Doe or Die album to now. Doe or Die was the intro as Az made a name for himself. Doe or Die II cemented the legacy, and Doe or Die III is the masterpiece painting the picture of where Az is now, a legend

This album presents the songs from The Threepenny Opera in a new French translation by Alexandre Pateau. The recording was made at the 2023 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence during the run of the new production of the legendary work by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann, which features the troupe of the Comédie-Française and the musicians of Le Balcon, conducted by Maxime Pascal with Thomas Ostermeier as stage director. In this parody of an opera, the songs are the driving force behind the action and the characters ape the bourgeois lifestyle of the audience, the better to denounce the period of moral confusion they are going through. With Maxime Pascal at the helm of a dozen multi-instrumentalists from Le Balcon, we hear a version based on that of the first performance - hard-hitting and as close as possible to the tremendous creative energy deployed by the two creators of the work in the summer of 1928 - acted and sung by the troupe of the Comédie-Française, who rise to all it's challenges with brio. Other special features of this album are a previously unrecorded song on a text by Yvette Guilbert and the linking texts between the songs read in French by Ostermeier himself. As Diapason wrote of this production, 'Almost a century after it's premiere, The Threepenny Opera has lost none of it's subversive power.'

Frankie Rose is an artist with intent. She experimented with the recording process with a variety of people which resulted in Cage Tropical, her 4th album. Working with Jorge Elbrecht (Tamaryn, Gang Gang Dance, Violens), this is a cinematic album spotlighting vintage synthesizer, upside down atmosphere and redemption.