Nine years apart, photographer Richard Dumas captured, in the same room at the Hôtel Vauban, in Brest, portraits of the singer Christophe Miossec, which illustrated two major albums from his discography. Released in 1995, sumptuously reissued in 2020, Drink launched the Breton’s career by slapping a French scene brutally awakened by the harshness of his words, his acoustic guitars and his sensuality. In 2004, Miossec celebrated its 40th anniversary with the unexpected caress of 1964, fifth album whose melancholy piano and string orchestrations guided future classics like Brest or I’m leaving.
Reissued today in the form of a double vinyl and a double CD, 1964 (20 ans) allows, in its new remastered version, access for the first time to the sessions that Miossec had recorded with the Orchester lyrique d’Avignon-Provence, a few months before the production of his record, for what had been a key moment of its creation. A great way for the Brestois to conclude 2024, after long months darkened by cancer of the vocal cords. Before a return to stage and a 2025 tour which will begin on February 7, in Hérouville-Saint-Clair (Calvados).
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