Post by davidhr on Aug 27, 2013 8:45:51 GMT -5
While we are not quite yet into September, ‘La rentree’ has already occurred for Lara, who returned from vacation for the final filming of ‘The Best’, and immediately resumed her career activities. The big news was her announcement of the release of the second single from ‘Le Secret’. It is ‘Danse’. She originally indicated that in an instragram photo, at:
but subsequently Lara provided a link on her FB site to an article about it in ‘ChartsinFrance’, that includes the actual song for one to listen to. Here’s the translation:
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As promised, Lara Fabian will soon launch a new radio single, second single from her fifth album "Le Secret" released in April. The artist had announced at the beginning of the season that she would be advancing a release before the end of the summer. And it's no surprise the song "Danse" was selected to succeed "Deux ils, deux elles" the first single inscribed in the direct line of the song "La difference," dealing with gay and lesbian love.
A timely piece, even though the debate on the Taubira law granting marriage to homosexual animated the street. "I confess that I find it hard to understand the arguments of opponents. If I take a step back from everything that has been said and hold the arguments that have been advanced by the opponents, I understand one thing. It is that these people are scared”, Lara Fabian had confided to Pure Charts, refusing to be taxed to ride a political agenda to create a buzz around her comeback after several years of absence.
More intimate, the single "Danse" meanwhile evokes to her a feminine beauty and the pain of passing time. Written by Lara Fabian, the text of this song was set to music by Janey Clewer, with whom Lara Fabian has worked since her debut in the 90s. " ‘Le Secret’ is the story of our tandem" stated the artist about it, as fourteen of the seventeen tracks listed on this new album "Le Secret" were composed by Janey Clewer.
Entering straight to number one in sales, the new album by Lara Fabian has sold over 50,000 copies in four months. Not really promoted on the set of the show "Le Best", where Lara Fabian had been a judge (TF1), "Le Secret" will soon be brought on stage as part of a long tour of nearly nine months, and which will begin on October 4 Theatre Sebastopol Lille. [We know that it begins earlier than that in Belgium].
The singer of "Tout" will travel through the Hexagon including the cities of Marseille November 7 (Silo), Limoges January 22, 2014 (Opera Theatre), Lyon February 6 (Bourse du Travail), Nantes February 24 (City Centre) and Rouen March 14 (Zenith). Only two concerts are scheduled in the capital on November 16 and 17, at the Theatre du Chatelet. A theater that suits perfectly the mood of the rock opera album "The Secret". The ticket office is open.
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Interestingly, the version that was presented on this site included the segment that on the CD is included on the ending of the previous track, ‘Le Secret’. It makes perfect sense to have it as part of ‘Danse’, and one imagines that all of these interludes should probably have been physically placed as the introductions to each cut, rather than add-ons to the previous song.
The announcement met with surprisingly mixed reviews, with some fans indicating it was one of their favorite songs, but many others wishing for another choice. The primary ‘other’ songs mentioned were ‘Un ange est tombe’ which had been rumored to be the second single; ‘La Vie est la’; and even ‘Putain de grand amour’ (my favorite). The primary arguments in favor of ‘Danse’ was that it was rhythmic so might attract a younger audience, and it would be able to be the basis for a great video. We have yet to hear for sure that there will be a video, though it’s probably likely. There is a wonderful video that has already been put to it by the Ballet Joëlle Morane, visible at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_qi9nAKJHA
Lara could do worse than to use that as her official video!
The arguments against were that it was not the choice of the fans who Lara twice asked (‘Un ange est tombe’ was the leader), and that it is not representative of Lara’s best work as it does not contain the depths of emotion found in some of the other choices. Personally, I like it for it brings an air of excitement and sophistication, but I understand the comment from some that given its somewhat complex nature, it is not your typical ‘hit’ for radio.
Of course, none of this matters if the song is not played on the radio; several fans have stated that they’ve already heard it, but we’ll see where that goes, and what it can do for the sales of ‘Le Secret’. The article indicates that ‘Le Secret’ has been awarded a ‘gold record’; ‘ChartsinFrance’ says it has actully sold 48,500 copies but that may not be fully up to date. In any event, it was reported that during the taping of the finale for ‘The Best’, which Lara did in Paris this week, she actually received the ‘gold record’ [BTW, it isn’t actually gold
and may not physically be her record). Currently ‘Le Secret’ is 181st in France (up 3 places) and 26th in Belgium (also up 3 places), in its 18th week on each chart. Lara’s appearance on ‘The Best’ has not really provided a great boost but as the article also stated, the album has not been promoted on the show. That was a failing of some of Lara’s other TV appearances this past spring and one wonders whether she is taking literally her comments about not caring about money . Lara does much better selling physical CDs (where she is actually 111th in France) than for digital downloads, where she hasn’t been in the top 200 in 8 weeks. This is likely a sign of the age of her audience. Perhaps her hope is that ‘Danse’ will accentuate her appeal to the digital-downloading crowd.
Meanwhile, the fifth episode of ‘The Best’ aired on TF1, and it can be seen outside of France (by most people) at:
www.larafabianbrasil.com.br/2013/08/the-best-le-meilleur-artiste-assista-ao_25.html
(also see 'Lara Fabian. Connecting people' which is the actual source for this video).
Lara looked quite fetching in her semi-transparent black dress,
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=539698962750439&set=a.168982793155393.43222.166959643357708&type=1&theater
and got good reviews from her fans, although she had some trouble with the short dress, and apparently hurt her foot. There was the continuing feeling that Lara likes everything she is shown (even Kung Fu) – but as she explained prior to the show’s airing, at this level one is seeing professionals at work, so there is no reason to disparage what they do.
Patrick Sebastien, whose program ‘Le Plus Grand Cabaret du monde’ on France 2 can be thought of as a competitor of ‘The Best’, has given an interview for ‘Closer’ magazine in which he said (in translation), "We are not in the same sense. In my program, I get artists, not products! At a pinch, I understand that we can compare singers, but not an acrobat with a magician.” And also: "I do not appreciate all these emissions contests with jurors, it is harmful to society and our children. It accustoms them at an early age to be in permanent competition. I want to tell the kids that it's okay if they are not the first, the most important is to live their passion. " The article wondered if he was jealous of ‘The Best”, although he does make some good points.
With respect to Lara’s upcoming free concert, it will not be the first show on ‘Le Secret’ tour, as we suspected. Lara posted the following comment on her FB site (in translation):
---------------------------------------------------------
Dear All,
Before the tour for ‘Le Secret’ is launched on September 11 in Namur, I wanted to tell you that the free concert on the afternoon of September 8, which takes place in the north, will be expressed as a tour through my repertoire, the ‘Best Of ‘, some of my favorite covers.
This is somewhat of a goodbye concert that I played with my musicians in Russia and I had never played that way in Europe.
We have the opportunity to celebrate by dressing a little in the local colors and relive all the songs that bind us forever.
See you soon somewhere
Lara
--------------------------------------------------------------
Lara also posted on her FB site an interview she gave that just appeared in ‘Pschologies Magazine’. She doesn’t often do that, and so she must really want her fans to know about it. With that in mind, here’s the translation:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Onsei-do Saved Me.
Each month, a personality returns to a moment of spiritual or existential awareness. This month, it is Lara Fabian.
Her new CD, Le Secret, at the top of the sales and gold disc, spoke of this happiness that one must stop looking for outside of oneself. The singer, on an international tour with a stop at the theatre of Chatelet next November, testifies to an immense spiritual quest, nourished by the daily practice of an ancestral Japanese meditative art.
It was some years ago. Lara Fabian lives a difficult passage, jammed, she says, in an intimate mille-feuille of painful events. “Nothing anymore made sense. I had broken two vertebrae, just from an excess of stress. The pain was unbearable. And then there was this book on sonic therapies… (The Tao of Sound, sonic therapy for the 21st century of Fabien Maman, Guy Tredaniel Editor, 2011)). I was particularly attracted to a chapter dedicated to an ancient Japanese practice, the ‘onsei-do’ (onesei-do.com), literally “the path of sound”.
The artist remembers another book (The Path of Angels, Editions de Mortagne, 2000) written by one of the rare teachers Isabelle Padovani , who, in Europe, practices this thousand year-old art , also called ‘kototama’, the singing of these ‘soul-words’, words secretly guarded forever by the Japanese imperial family. One night of intense pain, she searches through her library and puts her hands on it. She calls it ‘the meeting’, and ‘knows’ that its author will be able to help. “Isabelle explains to me that the utilization of certain sounds, the ‘sound sources’, act strongly in resonance with emotions and permits the pacification of mental agitation, freeing also the physical and energetic tensions. That speaks to me immediately, since childhood, I know that singing, the music is my way of happiness.
Lara Fabian feels the need to clarify that Isabelle Padovani is not one of the ‘charlatans of esotericism’, neither guru nor recluse far from real life. She evokes a path of resilience that led to the healing of physical pain to that of mental suffering. “One is put on one’s knees on a small Japanese bench, and one executes a series of very precise sounds. That lasts for between 20 minutes and one hour. Little by little, one disconnects mentally, one leaves all forms of identification. We find again our original nature, far from the ‘I’ that we believe ourselves to be. The ‘onsei-do’ disconnects you from this incessant mental questioning about oneself which brings you to the meaning of your life. This practice quite simply made me discover that, when we suffer, it is our own hand that makes us suffer, we who transform an objective pain into an obsessional suffering”.
This meditation, is it a religious path which puts us in contact with God? “I’m a believer, but I don’t think that God is a person. God, it is the breath of wind in the leaves, it is the smile of my daughter, it is this marvelous orchid before us on this table. God, it is you, it is me, it is each man and each woman on this earth. Meditate, prayer, it is go to inside oneself, towards this divine parcel which ties us to others and to the world. It is to dare to enter into this life, to dare to live…the open heart.”
Bertrand Revillion
--------------------------------------------
And, relevant to open hearts: fans have been asking how old Lara's new husband is, given that he looks younger than her. On the MZ FB site, in response to that question, it was stated that Gabriel Di Giorgio is 35 years old, a difference of 8 years. Some interesting pictures of him are available at:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151810520572417&set=a.10151806862337417.1073741859.382393522416&type=1&theater
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151810551097417&set=a.10151806862337417.1073741859.382393522416&type=1&theater
The next episode of ‘The Best’ will air this coming Friday. While Lara has no other public appearances that we know of scheduled this coming week, given that she is now ‘back’, anything is possible. And in the next few weeks she starts her live concerts, which we will be living with for the following nine months – let’s hope they are a glorious creation capable of expanding her audience, without too many labor pains.
David
http://instagram.com/p/dZFuRXh82C#
but subsequently Lara provided a link on her FB site to an article about it in ‘ChartsinFrance’, that includes the actual song for one to listen to. Here’s the translation:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
As promised, Lara Fabian will soon launch a new radio single, second single from her fifth album "Le Secret" released in April. The artist had announced at the beginning of the season that she would be advancing a release before the end of the summer. And it's no surprise the song "Danse" was selected to succeed "Deux ils, deux elles" the first single inscribed in the direct line of the song "La difference," dealing with gay and lesbian love.
A timely piece, even though the debate on the Taubira law granting marriage to homosexual animated the street. "I confess that I find it hard to understand the arguments of opponents. If I take a step back from everything that has been said and hold the arguments that have been advanced by the opponents, I understand one thing. It is that these people are scared”, Lara Fabian had confided to Pure Charts, refusing to be taxed to ride a political agenda to create a buzz around her comeback after several years of absence.
More intimate, the single "Danse" meanwhile evokes to her a feminine beauty and the pain of passing time. Written by Lara Fabian, the text of this song was set to music by Janey Clewer, with whom Lara Fabian has worked since her debut in the 90s. " ‘Le Secret’ is the story of our tandem" stated the artist about it, as fourteen of the seventeen tracks listed on this new album "Le Secret" were composed by Janey Clewer.
Entering straight to number one in sales, the new album by Lara Fabian has sold over 50,000 copies in four months. Not really promoted on the set of the show "Le Best", where Lara Fabian had been a judge (TF1), "Le Secret" will soon be brought on stage as part of a long tour of nearly nine months, and which will begin on October 4 Theatre Sebastopol Lille. [We know that it begins earlier than that in Belgium].
The singer of "Tout" will travel through the Hexagon including the cities of Marseille November 7 (Silo), Limoges January 22, 2014 (Opera Theatre), Lyon February 6 (Bourse du Travail), Nantes February 24 (City Centre) and Rouen March 14 (Zenith). Only two concerts are scheduled in the capital on November 16 and 17, at the Theatre du Chatelet. A theater that suits perfectly the mood of the rock opera album "The Secret". The ticket office is open.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interestingly, the version that was presented on this site included the segment that on the CD is included on the ending of the previous track, ‘Le Secret’. It makes perfect sense to have it as part of ‘Danse’, and one imagines that all of these interludes should probably have been physically placed as the introductions to each cut, rather than add-ons to the previous song.
The announcement met with surprisingly mixed reviews, with some fans indicating it was one of their favorite songs, but many others wishing for another choice. The primary ‘other’ songs mentioned were ‘Un ange est tombe’ which had been rumored to be the second single; ‘La Vie est la’; and even ‘Putain de grand amour’ (my favorite). The primary arguments in favor of ‘Danse’ was that it was rhythmic so might attract a younger audience, and it would be able to be the basis for a great video. We have yet to hear for sure that there will be a video, though it’s probably likely. There is a wonderful video that has already been put to it by the Ballet Joëlle Morane, visible at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_qi9nAKJHA
Lara could do worse than to use that as her official video!
The arguments against were that it was not the choice of the fans who Lara twice asked (‘Un ange est tombe’ was the leader), and that it is not representative of Lara’s best work as it does not contain the depths of emotion found in some of the other choices. Personally, I like it for it brings an air of excitement and sophistication, but I understand the comment from some that given its somewhat complex nature, it is not your typical ‘hit’ for radio.
Of course, none of this matters if the song is not played on the radio; several fans have stated that they’ve already heard it, but we’ll see where that goes, and what it can do for the sales of ‘Le Secret’. The article indicates that ‘Le Secret’ has been awarded a ‘gold record’; ‘ChartsinFrance’ says it has actully sold 48,500 copies but that may not be fully up to date. In any event, it was reported that during the taping of the finale for ‘The Best’, which Lara did in Paris this week, she actually received the ‘gold record’ [BTW, it isn’t actually gold
and may not physically be her record). Currently ‘Le Secret’ is 181st in France (up 3 places) and 26th in Belgium (also up 3 places), in its 18th week on each chart. Lara’s appearance on ‘The Best’ has not really provided a great boost but as the article also stated, the album has not been promoted on the show. That was a failing of some of Lara’s other TV appearances this past spring and one wonders whether she is taking literally her comments about not caring about money . Lara does much better selling physical CDs (where she is actually 111th in France) than for digital downloads, where she hasn’t been in the top 200 in 8 weeks. This is likely a sign of the age of her audience. Perhaps her hope is that ‘Danse’ will accentuate her appeal to the digital-downloading crowd. Meanwhile, the fifth episode of ‘The Best’ aired on TF1, and it can be seen outside of France (by most people) at:
www.larafabianbrasil.com.br/2013/08/the-best-le-meilleur-artiste-assista-ao_25.html
(also see 'Lara Fabian. Connecting people' which is the actual source for this video).
Lara looked quite fetching in her semi-transparent black dress,
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=539698962750439&set=a.168982793155393.43222.166959643357708&type=1&theater
and got good reviews from her fans, although she had some trouble with the short dress, and apparently hurt her foot. There was the continuing feeling that Lara likes everything she is shown (even Kung Fu) – but as she explained prior to the show’s airing, at this level one is seeing professionals at work, so there is no reason to disparage what they do.
Patrick Sebastien, whose program ‘Le Plus Grand Cabaret du monde’ on France 2 can be thought of as a competitor of ‘The Best’, has given an interview for ‘Closer’ magazine in which he said (in translation), "We are not in the same sense. In my program, I get artists, not products! At a pinch, I understand that we can compare singers, but not an acrobat with a magician.” And also: "I do not appreciate all these emissions contests with jurors, it is harmful to society and our children. It accustoms them at an early age to be in permanent competition. I want to tell the kids that it's okay if they are not the first, the most important is to live their passion. " The article wondered if he was jealous of ‘The Best”, although he does make some good points.
With respect to Lara’s upcoming free concert, it will not be the first show on ‘Le Secret’ tour, as we suspected. Lara posted the following comment on her FB site (in translation):
---------------------------------------------------------
Dear All,
Before the tour for ‘Le Secret’ is launched on September 11 in Namur, I wanted to tell you that the free concert on the afternoon of September 8, which takes place in the north, will be expressed as a tour through my repertoire, the ‘Best Of ‘, some of my favorite covers.
This is somewhat of a goodbye concert that I played with my musicians in Russia and I had never played that way in Europe.
We have the opportunity to celebrate by dressing a little in the local colors and relive all the songs that bind us forever.
See you soon somewhere
Lara
--------------------------------------------------------------
Lara also posted on her FB site an interview she gave that just appeared in ‘Pschologies Magazine’. She doesn’t often do that, and so she must really want her fans to know about it. With that in mind, here’s the translation:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Onsei-do Saved Me.
Each month, a personality returns to a moment of spiritual or existential awareness. This month, it is Lara Fabian.
Her new CD, Le Secret, at the top of the sales and gold disc, spoke of this happiness that one must stop looking for outside of oneself. The singer, on an international tour with a stop at the theatre of Chatelet next November, testifies to an immense spiritual quest, nourished by the daily practice of an ancestral Japanese meditative art.
It was some years ago. Lara Fabian lives a difficult passage, jammed, she says, in an intimate mille-feuille of painful events. “Nothing anymore made sense. I had broken two vertebrae, just from an excess of stress. The pain was unbearable. And then there was this book on sonic therapies… (The Tao of Sound, sonic therapy for the 21st century of Fabien Maman, Guy Tredaniel Editor, 2011)). I was particularly attracted to a chapter dedicated to an ancient Japanese practice, the ‘onsei-do’ (onesei-do.com), literally “the path of sound”.
The artist remembers another book (The Path of Angels, Editions de Mortagne, 2000) written by one of the rare teachers Isabelle Padovani , who, in Europe, practices this thousand year-old art , also called ‘kototama’, the singing of these ‘soul-words’, words secretly guarded forever by the Japanese imperial family. One night of intense pain, she searches through her library and puts her hands on it. She calls it ‘the meeting’, and ‘knows’ that its author will be able to help. “Isabelle explains to me that the utilization of certain sounds, the ‘sound sources’, act strongly in resonance with emotions and permits the pacification of mental agitation, freeing also the physical and energetic tensions. That speaks to me immediately, since childhood, I know that singing, the music is my way of happiness.
Lara Fabian feels the need to clarify that Isabelle Padovani is not one of the ‘charlatans of esotericism’, neither guru nor recluse far from real life. She evokes a path of resilience that led to the healing of physical pain to that of mental suffering. “One is put on one’s knees on a small Japanese bench, and one executes a series of very precise sounds. That lasts for between 20 minutes and one hour. Little by little, one disconnects mentally, one leaves all forms of identification. We find again our original nature, far from the ‘I’ that we believe ourselves to be. The ‘onsei-do’ disconnects you from this incessant mental questioning about oneself which brings you to the meaning of your life. This practice quite simply made me discover that, when we suffer, it is our own hand that makes us suffer, we who transform an objective pain into an obsessional suffering”.
This meditation, is it a religious path which puts us in contact with God? “I’m a believer, but I don’t think that God is a person. God, it is the breath of wind in the leaves, it is the smile of my daughter, it is this marvelous orchid before us on this table. God, it is you, it is me, it is each man and each woman on this earth. Meditate, prayer, it is go to inside oneself, towards this divine parcel which ties us to others and to the world. It is to dare to enter into this life, to dare to live…the open heart.”
Bertrand Revillion
--------------------------------------------
And, relevant to open hearts: fans have been asking how old Lara's new husband is, given that he looks younger than her. On the MZ FB site, in response to that question, it was stated that Gabriel Di Giorgio is 35 years old, a difference of 8 years. Some interesting pictures of him are available at:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151810520572417&set=a.10151806862337417.1073741859.382393522416&type=1&theater
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151810551097417&set=a.10151806862337417.1073741859.382393522416&type=1&theater
The next episode of ‘The Best’ will air this coming Friday. While Lara has no other public appearances that we know of scheduled this coming week, given that she is now ‘back’, anything is possible. And in the next few weeks she starts her live concerts, which we will be living with for the following nine months – let’s hope they are a glorious creation capable of expanding her audience, without too many labor pains.
David
