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Track Listings
| 1. Elisa (Live) |
| 2. Et Quand Bien Même (Live) |
| 3. L'amour De Moi (Live) |
| 4. Couleur Café (Live) |
| 5. Anno ''close To The River'' (Live) |
| 6. Dépression Au-Dessus Du Jardin (Live) |
| 7. Valse De Melody (Live) |
| 8. Haine Pour Aime (Live) |
| 9. Amours Des Feintes (Live) |
| 10. She Left Home (Live;instrumental) |
| 11. Les Dessous Chics (Live) |
| 12. Les Clefs Du Paradis (Live) |
| 13. Fuir Le Bonheur De Peur Qu'il Ne Se Sauve (Live) |
| 14. Comment Te Dire Adieu (Live) |
| 15. Baby Alone In Babylone (Live) |
| 16. La Javanaise (Live) |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
On Arabesque actress turned singer Jane Birkin reworks another set of songs by her former lover and mentor Serge Gainsbourg. It follows on from 1996's Versions Jane. This time she's accompanied, live in Paris, by the Algerian and Romany arrangements of a North African band, and their quavering violin and tinny, clattering percussion form an appropriately exotic backdrop to Gainsbourg's examinations of passionate relationships and the sweet minutiae of love. Birkin, her entrance occasionally heralded by the complex and vibrant chanting of Moumen, is not technically the greatest of singers, but she works hard to extract meaning and emotion from the songs, thus lending depth to Gainsbourg's sometimes overwrought phrasings.
There's variety here, too. "Amours Des Feintes", with its rolling piano, recalls Jacques Brel, "Baby Alone in Babylone" is like a cute Kurt Weill, "Close to the River" is a poem written by Birkin's brother's son, dead in an accident at 20, and the closing "La Javanaise" is a moving a cappella. And to think that Gainsbourg originally recorded "Je T'Aime…Moi Non Plus" with Brigitte Bardot, only calling in Birkin when Bardot decided the track might upset her husband. Had Bardot been a tad more selfish, the tasteful and touching Arabesque would never have happened. --Dominic Wills
Chronique amazon.fr
Arabesque ou le témoignage du spectacle donné en 1999, sur une initiative de France Culture, par Jane Birkin au Festival d'Avignon. Éternelle muse et gardienne de la mémoire de Serge Gainsbourg, la chanteuse revisite le répertoire de l'homme à la tête de chou en compagnie du violoniste oranais Djamel Benye, leader de Djam & Fam et collaborateur de Khaled, Cheb Mami comme de Florent Pagny ou Yannick Noah. Ses nouvelles variations aux couleurs arabo-andalouses donnent un second souffle à une sélection de chansons cultes telles "Couleur Café", "Élisa", "La Chanson de Prévert" ou "Comment te dire adieu". Des classiques qui se font rhabiller de sonorités kabyles tendues de violon, de tambour et de luth et soutenus par l'accent savoureusement acidulé de Jane Birkin. Une voix qui devient bouleversante à la lecture d'un poème d'Anno Birkin, son neveu mort à vingt ans dans un accident de voiture. Entre Orient et Occident, Jane Birkin vend l'âme slave aux percus orientales. Un échange orchestré de jolie manière. --Sabrina Silamo
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