Carla Bruni

Quelqu´un m´a dit

April 8, 2003

Originally best-known as an Italian-born model who had affairs with Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, Bruni has matured into a remarkably talented and self-possessed singer-composer-guitarist. Her debut album, sung mostly in French, could best be described as neo-chanson. Bruni's whispery, wobbly, husky voice, wryly deadpan delivery and introspective lyrics recall Francoise Hardy, Barbara, Jane Birkin and Nico. But unlike her forebears, who so often posed as waif-like child-women and doormat-like victims of passion, Bruni remains firmly on top. Her lyrics can and do celebrate true love but she also praises the delights of female sexual empowerment in no uncertain terms, as on J'en Connais ("I've Known A Few"). Musically, the tunes range from folk Français to echoes of le jazz hot to bluesy torch numbers. The spare, mostly acoustic instrumentation is unfussy and atmospheric, while the I-couldn't-care-less ambience is occasionally punctuated by chimes, insouciant whistling or an impudent, sly giggle. --Christina Roden


1. Quelqu'un M'A Dit
2. Raphaël
3. Tout le Monde
4. Noyée
5. Toi du Moi
6. Ciel Dans une Chambre (Il Cielo in Una Stanza)
7. J'En Connais
8. Plus Beau du Quartier
9. Chanson Triste
10. Excessive
11. Amour
12. Dernière Minute


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Carla Bruni

No promises
March 20, 2007

Filha de milionarios,linda de morrer, antecessora de Luciana Gimenez no cargo de amante de Mick Jagger, deu para o Donald Trump...Crédibilidade zero. Mas basta escutar para se convencer.
Na estréia, Quelq´un m´a dit (2002), ela canta e compõe como os preconceituosos imaginam que só a mais sofrida e vivida das barangas seria capaz. Agora a italiana radicada em Paris se reinventa trocando o francês pelo inglês Com arfar sutil, seu canto respirado dá vida a textos de Emily Dickinson, W.H.Auden e Dorothy Parker em clima semi-acústico. A adaptação de "Before the world was made" do irlandês W.B. Yeats, dá um banho na de Van Morrison. Pedro Só

1. Those Dancing Days Are Gone
2. Before This World Was Made
3. Lady Weeping at the Crossroads
4. I Felt My Life with Both My Hands
5. Promises Like Pie-Crust
6. Autumn
7. If You Were Coming in the Fall
8. I Went to Heaven
9. Afternoon
10. Ballade at the Thirty-Five
11. At Last the Secret Is Out


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