Birkin Gainsbourg - Le Symphonique (Limited) (CD2+DVD)

CD1

1. Lost Song
2. Dépression au-dessus du jardin
3. Baby Alone In Babylone
4. Physique et sans issue
5. Ces petits riens
6.  L’aquoiboniste
7. Valse de Melody
8. Fuir le bonheur de peur qu’il ne se sauve
9. Requiem pour un con
10. Une chose entre autres
11. Amour des feintes
12. Exercice en forme de Z
13. Manon
14. La chanson de Prévert
15. Les dessous chics
16. L’amour de moi
17. Pull marine
18. La gadoue
19. Jane B.
20. L’anamour
21. La Javanaise

CD2

1. Requiem pour un con (Live 2012)
2. Tombée des nues (Live 2012)
3. Di Doo Dah (Live 2012)
4. En rire de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer (Live 2012)
5. Marilou sous la neige (Live 2012)
6. Amour des feintes (Live 2012)
7. Le couteau dans le Play (Live 2012)
8. Ballade de Johnny Jane (Live 2012)
9. Con c'est con ces conséquences (Live 2012)
10. Classée X (Live 2012)
11. Ces petits riens (Live 2012)
12. Une chose entre autres (Live 2012)
13. Comic Strip (Live 2012)
14. Les amours perdues (Live 2012)
15. Ah! Melody (Live 2012)
16. Haine pour aime (Live 2012)
17. La chanson de Prévert (Live 2012)
18. Les dessous chics (Live 2012)
19. L'aquoiboniste (Live 2012)
20. Mon amour baiser (Live 2012)

DVD

1. Mes images de Serge

""One thing amongst other things that you don't know, you had the very best of me."

... Serge's words and so true, which explains 30 years of me singing Gainsbourg on stage, I could never have done this without the help of Philippe Lerichomme, who knew Serge every bit as much as I did, his tastes his loves his frailties, what he would have liked what he would have disliked, and then, as my director for the stage, what to sing, for 25 years, trying each time, to make the concert fresh with the same material...

Then one has "luck", as I flew towards Tokyo to be with the Japanese, after the tsunami Fukushima, I had suggested a mini concert, so I could give back what they, as an audience for... 40 years, had given me... I got to the hotel, the concert hall, the emotion was palpable, and there, on a little stage I sang with a pianist, the most beautiful arrangements, so delicate and moving, and I was told his name... Nobu, a composer in his own right... When I got back to Paris I tried to raise money for the homeless, in Japan... and I was reminded by my manager Olivier Gluzman, that I had promised to do 3 to 5 concerts in the USA...

How? what... and I thought of Nobu and away we went, with Serge’s songs and his arrangements, for 2 years with the concert Via Japan!

I had said to someone, that Serge used classical music so often, how lovely it would be with a symphony orchestra, and suddenly, it was upon me: Francofolies of Montreal proposed me to launch their 2016 edition by two concerts with the symphonic orchestra of Montreal.

What to do, Philippe Lerichomme would find great ideas, with whom, Nobu... I have just listened to his arrangements, some beauty of a strange kind, tangels of Mendelshon... of jazz, with great fun and charm...

I rubbed Serge and Philippe Lerichomme and Nobu together... and we have Gainsbourg Symphonic!"

- Jane Birkin