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The choice of Alexandre Vigneault

SongbookNatalia Lafourcade

We saw Natalia Lafourcade on stage in Montreal two years ago, wearing a spectacular black dress which marvelously evoked the elegance and the spirit of mourning of some of her songs. She will be back on June 26 and 27 at Place des Arts at the invitation of the Jazz Festival, with a new collection of songs. Inspired by her country’s folklore, the Mexican singer articulates her new album around her guitar, also flirts on occasion with a bluish piano and multiplies collaborations of good taste with Israel Fernández (Clandestine love), David Aguilar (As I would like to love you) and Hermanos Gutiérrez. We press that we will be dealing with an artist at the top of his art during his visit.

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Songbook

Natalia Lafourcade

Sony Music Mexico

The choice of Philippe Beauchemin

Magic powersErika Hagen

For his first album, Erika Hagen offers a slacker rock that has nothing to envy to the great of the genre – Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile -, and all… in French. The fatty guitars (we recognize love for this instrument of the one who realizes here, Dany Closet) accompany very hard texts wonderfully, sometimes tinged with a black humor, where the young author reveals her share of shadow (“I would like to be Karate Kid to fight the monsters who leave holes in my belly”) and her quest to find – or not – love (“lying in my bathtub You, worse I’m so happy that you are not there ”), clean in the first place. Magic powers has everything to be your Icitte rock album this spring.

Rock

Magic powers

Erika Hagen

Self -production

The choice of Josée Lapointe

Anarcholique, Jérôme 50

Third album by Jérôme 50, Anarcholique is exactly what he announces: a disc where beer flows to waves, and which brews the established order. If a few songs still do in the neo-trad, the Quebec Chilleur plunges mainly in the punk-rock of his youth. Brought to the well intoxicated party, openly vulgar, angry when he talks about politics, he puts cards on the table and it is to take or leave. When a song is called Fuck you mon ostiethere is not much room for imagination! We admit, we like the fiery writing of Jérôme 50, often childish, but rare and inhabited by a real emergency. But it is the fragility and humanity of the title piece that we hope to hear more in the coming years.

Punk-rock

Anarcholique

Jérôme 50

Bravo Music

The choice of Pascal Leblanc

Good Music HypnotizesJimmie D et Nicholas Craven

With his low voice and her sharp speech, jimmie of order attention. And when he poses on beats Impected from Soul de Nicholas Craven, the result is hypnotizing. From the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district, Jimmie co-founded the Real Big Records label in the mid-2000s. The rapper met the one who was going to become his faithful producer a few years later, and both recorded together. For this occasion, the old friend Pay $ o, the compatriot Raz Fresco and the prolific Tha God Fahim contribute to couplets. The latter continues to chain the albums composed by Nicholas Craven, which has also just signed a play for Lloyd Banks and Ghostface Killah. The Quebecer also announced that his third collaboration with Boldy James will appear on July 11.

Rap

Good Music Hypnotizes

Jimmie D et Nicholas Craven

Independent

The choice of Emmanuel Bernier

J. S. Bach, Mass in B minorPygmalion and Raphaël Pichon

The Mass in Si From Bach, it’s a bit like the sixtine chapel of music. After several choral music discs from the Cantor of Leipzig, including an overwhelming Passion according to Saint Matthew (2022), Raphaël Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble attack this sound cathedral that Bach had first thought of as a business card to solicit a composer position at the Dresden court. The intensity of the chef and the beauty of the instrumental colors strike immediately. The quality of the choir and the quintet of soloists (including the excellent bass Christian Immler) is not less in this recording which will undoubtedly make date alongside those of John Eliot Gardiner and Frans Brüggen.

Classic

J. S. Bach, Mass in B minor

Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon

Harmonia