FIP radio invites around ten artists (MC Solaar, Yael Naim, Gildaa, etc.) to a concert Tuesday evening in Paris celebrating ten years of Session Unik, during which previously unreleased duets were recorded and engraved on vinyl.
Since the first edition in 2014 with Jane Birkin and Emily Loizeau, these sessions have brought together around thirty artists for a live duet including Philippe Katerine and the Catastrophe collective, Arthur Teboul and Alain Chamfort or Angélique Kidjo and Catherine Ringer .
For the tenth anniversary concert, at the Maison de la radio and live on FIP, MC Solaar will revisit his “New Western” with the rock group The Limiñanas; singer Yael Naim will reprise her “Shine” alongside Franco-Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Gildaa and “I love you” by Billie Eilish will be reinterpreted by soul harpist Sophie Solyveau and saxophonist Laurent Bardainne.
“We are going to celebrate these ten years with a concert in the image of these years of Session Unik, namely a concert celebrating eclecticism around unprecedented encounters between artists of very different generations and universes”, explains to the AFP the director of FIP, Ruddy Aboab.
The unclassifiable saxophonist and singer Thomas de Pourquery will provide musical direction for the evening and the “backing band” of ten musicians.
As with each session, co-organized by the copyright management company Adami, the concert will be captured on vinyl made on site with the engraving machine that Radio France acquired in the early 2010s. In a hurry in a very limited edition, these collector records will then be put on sale during the next Record Store Day, in April, the annual day of promotion of independent record stores.
According to the director of FIP, the Session Unik project “perfectly tells the story of the close relationship that links the Maison de la radio to music, artists and innovation” and also celebrates the uniqueness of FIP's programming, radio 100 % musical and without algorithms.
“I challenge any artificial intelligence to design a program as improbable, ambitious, curious as this concert on Tuesday evening,” jokes Ruddy Aboab.
