Des Chansons qui nous Ressemblent: Les Chansons de Jacques Prévert
Various Artists- LES FRERES JACQUES - En sortant de l’école
- LES FRERES JACQUES - Deux escargots s’en vont à l’enterrement
- JULIETTE GRECO - Les enfants qui s’aiment
- EDITH PIAF - Les feuilles mortes
- YVES MONTAND - Les cireurs de souliers de Broadway
- YVES MONTAND - Et la fête continue
- MARIANNE OSWALD - La chasse à l’enfant
- LES FRERES JACQUES - La pêche à la baleine
- CORA VAUCAIRE - Démons et merveilles
- CORA VAUCAIRE - Le tendre et dangereux visage de l’amour
- JULIETTE GRECO - A la belle étoile
- YVES MONTAND - Tournesol
- YVES MONTAND - Sanguine joli fruit
- LES FRERES JACQUES - Barbara, Les Frères Jacques
- JULIETTE GRECO - Et puis après (Je suis comme je suis)
- JULIETTE GRECO - Embrasse moi
- YVES MONTAND - Compagnons des mauvais jours
- LES FRERES JACQUES - Page d’écriture
- LES FRERES JACQUES - Inventaire
- JACQUES PREVERT - Chanson dans le sang
"We should try to be happy, just to give an example" said Prévert.
He tried to give this example in his songs; narrative songs, without tricks, where spontaneity takes over. An authentic ode to life, where a variety of feelings are developed: melancholy, anxiety, anger, sadness or tenderness. Some feelings above all humans, which made the songs even more lively.
The originality of Prévert was to portray his everyday life in songs, in a simple manner or rather fantasist, but always so we can relate to it.
The language is common, sometimes poetic, but every piece is borrowed from a certain dream which makes us travel in time.
These are poems set to music, accompanied by accordions, violons or pianos, and performed by artists who give us their sensitivity. These artists make the tracks more alive : the Frères Jacques who assigns their choirs to different plays, Marianne Oslwad who chants her lyrics or Juliette Gréco who almost talks to us.
A journey in a world where no one is left behind and where everything is possible : we can easily imagine the street chilren, lovers, pretty women and a bright sunshine.
"What a wonderfull world" sang Yves Montand back then.