“Wild God”, “In a dream. Solovoice 1”, “Luck and Strange”… Our album choices

THE MORNING LIST

This week, we offer you six discs and a box set appreciated and reviewed by the critics of the music section of the Monde, and marketed at the end of August and during the month of September. In chronological order of release: the eighteenth album by Australian Nick Cave; an a cappella recital by soprano Anne Warthmann; the nine compositions from the new album by guitarist David Gilmour (Pink Floyd); the 50^e anniversary of the marketing of’Apostrophe (’) by Frank Zappa; the rapper’s second album Gringe; the new poetic ballad from the Angevin quintet Lo’Jo; the superb collection by British saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia.

“Wild God”: a lush and hopeful record from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

As his eighteenth album is released, rock preacher Nick Cave, 66, arouses admiration for his exceptional resilience. However, family tragedies have not spared him in recent years, after the successive deaths of his mother and two of his sons. With Wild God, the Australian delivers ten ample and grandiose tracks, mainly dominated by string arrangements. The choice of producer Dave Fridmann, a master in the field of lush orchestrations (Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips), is not the result of chance. The result can be heard from the first track, Song of the Lakethen on Joy et Wild Godthe latter carried away by a whirlwind of Ennio Morricone-style choruses. More intimate walks Final Rescue Attempt et Conversion are part of the extension of the albums Skeleton Tree or Ghosteen.

And even if a few ghosts still roam O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)a touching tribute to Anita Lane (1960-2021), former companion and muse of the 1970s and 1980s, the music is deliberately light and peaceful. With this successful transitional record, the gothic crooner confirms that he is one of the rare musicians of his generation to offer a renewed and relevant repertoire. Ms. C.

“In a dream. Solovoice 1”: the winning bet of soprano Anne Warthmann

Nineteen pieces (most lasting two to three minutes), around fifteen composers (including quite a few well-known names), an entirely a cappella recital… Anne Warthmann’s gamble was risky. He is won, “loud voice”. Devoid of instrumental support (with the exception of a few accessories such as the kalimba, which plays the exotic song guides in Melismasby Graciane Finzi), the voice is not suspended in the void or condemned to float in space. It constitutes a vast planet where multiple musical species thrive. Has an incantatory tendency (Descent from the starsd’Eric Tanguy) ou introspective (Onlyby Morton Feldman). At ease in all registers, Anne Warthmann also serves pure poetry (the very suggestive At night two songsby Betsy Jolas) that musical theater (theAlphabetby Jean-Christophe Rosaz). However, it is with Thierry Pécou that she seems to have the most affinities. The monologues (In a dream, Eurydice, Tess lament) then turn wonderfully into gentle madness and creative delirium. P. Gi

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