Paris Combo - Quesaco? '2022

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       Twenty-five years have passed since the band was founded, but it’s
clear from listening to the 11 songs on the new album that Paris Combo have lost
none of their magic. Quintessentially Parisian, yet timeless and international
with a deceptively light touch, their music weaves together elements of Django
Reinhardt-inspired gypsy jazz and Latin music, as well as cinematic and various
exotic influences, and is a testament to the group’s long journey
together.

Four years after their last album Tako Tsubo, Belle and the group’s core
members, David Lewis on piano and trumpet, Potzi on guitar and François
Jeannin on drums, are joined by Benoît Dunoyer de Segonzac on bass and
Rémy Kaprielan on percussion and vocals. Right from the outset we recognize
Belle’s whimsical take on life in the title she chose for the new album
— Quesaco?, a generations-old Provençal expression, meaning
“What is it?,” that lends a charming, old-world nuance to her
questions about the mystery of existence.

It took Belle’s talent as a poet of the everyday to think of using the
computer’s keyboard space-bar as a metaphor for all that’s missing
in our lives. It took her keen eye and her joyful heart to capture the simple
splendor of a couple’s stroll along the banks of the Seine. It took her
playful imagination to visualize a “pole-dance” between the North
Pole and the South Pole. And Belle knew how to shift the familiar and lend to it
an air of mystery

Tracklist:
1.01 - Paris Combo - Quesaco? (4:52)
1.02 - Paris Combo - Barre espace (3:50)
1.03 - Paris Combo - Seine de la vie parisienne (3:52)
1.04 - Paris Combo - Panic à bord (4:16)
1.05 - Paris Combo - Maudit money (3:45)
1.06 - Paris Combo - Première guerre (4:29)
1.07 - Paris Combo - Axe imaginaire (3:21)
1.08 - Paris Combo - Cap ou pas cap (3:37)
1.09 - Paris Combo - Tendre émoi (4:22)
1.10 - Paris Combo - Do you think (4:18)
1.11 - Paris Combo - Paresser par ici (3:11) 

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