O+

Music:

Member Since: 7/14/2006
Band Website: oplus.org
Band Members:

Henri TACHAN
De la pluie et du beau temps

Style : Chanson
REF : OP123

This "friend" of Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens, is one of the last Giants of the French popular music. Henri crossed the modes inspired the new generation and conquered the heart of a whole public by his poetry. His magnificent writing is simple and sincere.

David LINX & The Brussels Jazz Orchestra
"Changing Faces"

Style : Jazz
REF : OP127
Featuring Natalie Dessay, Maria Joao, Ivan Lins

One of the jazz vocal leader in Europe with one of the most known Big Band in the World (awarded by the Critics Poll in 2004 Downbeat Mag.) Eleven arrangers chiselled this record note by note. They together shaped one homogeneous and magnificent jewel, David Linx and his guests made it precious.

www.myspace.com/davidlinx

Almo
Eleven Love Inventions

Style : Pop
REF : OP134

Born in Paris, ALMO was plunged into a heady musical atmosphere from earliest childhood. He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and after returning to France, he began a career as a composer, arranger and performer in advertising and for the cinema. He wrote the original soundtrack for the feature film Le Souffleur, directed by G. PIXIE (produced by Europa Corp./Avalanches) and released in March 2005. But ALMO's real love is songwriting. Brought up on soul (Stevie WONDER, Marvin GAYE) and pop (Paul McCARTNEY, Cat STEVENS), this talented songwriter is now striking out on his own.

www.myspace.com/almosoul

Alfredo RODRIGUEZ
Oye Afra

Style : Cuba
REF : OP119

Digital exclusivity

Oye Afra is a compilation made by Alfredo's wife : Miké Charropin. Always with him on the road, Miké has taken the time to select some of the greatest live performances of Alfredo Rodriguez, responding to the insisting profession and lovers of the Son Cubano.

Armande Altaï
Héroïnes Fantaisie

Style : French Pop
REF : OP131

Forget the screens, forget the clichés...
Listen to this album as if it had come out of nowhere &150; because it has.
Time has taken the edges off the angles, off the abrasiveness and sharpness. Now you can hear the tenderness, the warmth and the melancholy too.
Leaving aside all misunderstanding, we can now recognise Armande for what she is: a unique artiste, a proud and fragile mauve-accented poet.

RICARDO TETÉ
Geringonça

Style : World / Brésil
REF : OP114

Featuring : Irène Jacob, David Linx, Hamilton de Hollanda,
Nelson Veras, Stéphane Guillaume

If music were coffee, Ricardo Teté's music would be a subtle blend. A learned and an innocent union of elements that aren't often brought together. Sweetness and mystery. A certain naiveté; bright colours and childhood; a dash of intellect, of distance, of crystal. Instantly appealing melodies and multilayered lyrics.

Charlier/Sourisse
HERITAGE

Style : Jazz
REF : OP132

Featuring Kurt Rosenwinkel

They form the kind of duo that jazz fans love. Their careers seem so closely interlinked and complementary that people will speak about ‘Charlier/Sourisse' as if they were a single person. You hardly know which one is André and which one Benoît. The two artists seem to share a view of life and of music, which they have been making together for over fifteen years, both as a duo and alongside Didier Lockwood and Jean-Jacques Milteau.

JEAN PATRICK CAPDEVIELLE
Hérétique 13

Style : Rock
REF : OP128

His name rings in the ears of the rock amateurs, or those who were listening the top 50 beginning of the 80s. Capdevielle had then invaded the music charts.
More still he had then conquered a whole public amateurs of rock and poetry.
http://www.jpcapdevielle.com

TOUFIC FARROUKH
Tootya

Style : World Electro
REF : OP126

Jazz from unfamiliar angles. If Toufic Farroukh's new album ‘Tootya' is anything it is this. A touch of oriental roots, a tinge of electronica combined with lots of intense flavoring the accomplished Lebanese saxophonist's journey continues with this powerful follow up to 2002's groundbreaking DrabZeen.
www.touficfarroukh.com

CéU

Style : Brazil
REF OP110

From contemporary Brazil comes CéU, with an album blending force and grace.
Her roots are in samba, which “sticks to the soles of her feet”. But she covers many other musical territories too, from soul to afrobeat and electrojazz. With a rare maturity and finesse, she has taken a rich and eclectic musical culture and made it all her own.

RAY BARRETTO - Time was - Time is

Style : Latin Jazz
REF OP109

Ray Barretto-Congas & timbales
Joe Magnarelli -Trumpet, Flugehorn
Myron Walden -Alto Sax
Robert Rodriguez -Piano
Sean Conley -Doublebass
Vince Cherico - Drums
Bobby Sannabria - Percussions

48th Grammy Awards (2006) nominees (Best Latin Jazz Album)

GUY MARCHAND - Emilio

Style : French Pop
REF OP108

Guy Marchand is a well-known and appreciated French cinema actor who has also become a familiar face to television viewers. But fewer people are aware that before becoming an actor, Guy had already made a name for himself as a singer and that it was through music that he first took up acting

SARAH MORROW & The american all stars in Paris

FEATURING HAL SINGER & RHODA SCOTT

Style : Jazz
REF OP107

First appearing in Ray Charles and Dee Dee Bridgewater's bands, the trombonist Sarah Morrow is one of the most active jazzwomen. On All Stars in Paris, her third album, she has brought together several American legends living in France to play some well-established standards.

Mokhtar Samba - Dounia

Style : African Pop
REF OP105

This "drummer for the great" has blended bright arpeggios on the kora, insistent spirals of the Sahelian bards and the ornate style of the voices, as well as jazz improvisations and hints of classical music. The music thus moves between the white Africa of the Berber nomads and the black Africa of the great Empires fed by the Niger.

Stéphane Guillaume - Soul Role

Style : Jazz
REF OP104

Soul Role is the second album of one among the best french jazz musicians. He played among others with Quincy Jones, Wayne Krantz, Sara Lazarus, Claude Nougaro, Umberto Pagnini's “Cricca”, David Patrois, Steve Potts, Manuel Rocheman, Aldo Romano, Yoshco Seffer, Toots Thielemanns, Franck Tortiller, and Didier Lockwood's “New Quartet”.

méxico, mágico, místico
Flor de Luna - xochimetzli

Style : World / Mexico
REF OP103

Flor de luna is the expression of artists who are united in music, who have joined together with the desire of going beyond the ‘traditional' field of World Music. From Mexico to Cuba, from Venezuela to Ecuador, from Colombia to Argentina by way of India, Flor de luna is a hymn to the peoples in movement.

Featuring : Dr L. Subramaniam - Ofelia Medina - Orlando Valle "Maraca" - Marcel Loefeler.

Mario Canonge - Rhizome

Style : Latin Jazz
REF OP102

In a career lasting for nearly 20 years, Mario Canonge has so far given us 5 albums. He has a thirst for different musical experiences and exchanges, and has put his talents to work for the most diverse styles and cultures, from Cape Verde to Haiti, from Cuba to his native French West Indies.

Featuring Roy Hargrove & Richard Bona

Charlier / Sourisse - Eleven blues

Style : Jazz
REF : OP101

Featuring Kenny Garrett

This duo is considered as an essential element of the contemporary French jazz scene. They are remarkable both for their longevity and their talent, and have played with some of the world's most exceptional musicians.

Etienne Mbappe - Misiya

Style : African Pop
REF OP100

Featuring : Mokhtar Samba, Boddy James Nguime, Andy Narell, Miguel Sanchez

In his mother tongue, Douala (a Cameroonian dialect), he sings of love, of friendships, of his son's eyes&x2026; He composes odes to life and to his native land. We hear him sing sad, sensual ballads to the accompaniment of the guitar and the cello and then more upbeat songs that show his unique feel for dance rhythms.

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