Post by lapayin on Oct 14, 2006 21:14:44 GMT -5
Thanks David.
News Update: 10/14
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Activity picks up in preparation for the coming Live album release…
Lara released a new message on her official site today, with some interesting information.
She notes that the promotion of the new album will continue through December, and following that she will focus on the Italian album. Here's her quote:
"Thinking about it is over now, I’m doing it. There is a duet with Gigi d’Alessio, an Italian artist I introduced to you in March at the Zénith. This duet will be on Gigi’s album this fall; then on my album, you will find “Aime” (“Love”) in Italian, personal and original compositions and some songs written by some great Italians…Italy is this part of me I haven’t musically explored yet and this opportunity finally comes to me. Let “FESTA” begin!!!
I hope you will like the project. Personally, I am really excited about it, excited like a child, excited just like those moments I spent with my pals in Sicilia, during my summer holidays from the age of 8 to 16. In a way, this album takes me to another life… to my roots… I hope you will follow me in this new adventure…"
Her comments are so specific it suggests that it may really be Italian, not multi-lingual. But as always, we will have to see what really happens.
She also notes that she spent time in Quebec with "Matt Herkowitz, an amazing musician, the one who created and played “Le nocturne” on the album “Nue”…" .
So we finally learn who that was!
She further says, "He has just created a project on Gershwin- fascinating- in which he gives new harmonies and musical arrangements to some of the songs. Then, he asks some mates of his (like me) to sing on this work. You will have the opportunity to hear the result soon…"
Which implies Lara has recorded another Gershwin song that we will get to hear.
Information about the songs on the CD release of Un Regard Neuf is now available; as reported by Darkloic on Laradom (from an official posting at www.mediadis.com/music/de...d=157871), the CD contains the songs:
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1. Aime; 2. Les Homéricains; 3. J'y crois encore; 4. Il ne manquait que toi; 5. Tu es mon autre; 6. Si tu n'as pas d'amour; 7. Silence; 8. Un ave Maria; 9. Immortelle; 10. Tout; 11. Le tour du monde; 12. L'homme qui n'avait pas de maison; 13. La lettre; 14. Papa can you hear me ?; 15. A piece of sky; 16. Je me souviens.
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The DVD presumably contains the rest of the songs from the full concert, although there is no explicit listing given for that. There are obviously 8 songs from Neuf, 4 from Nue, 1 from Pure and three previously unrecorded. The choice of which songs to put on the CD, which probably runs less than the full 80 minutes available, was apparently dictated by the desire to emphasize the 'lead songs' from Neuf (in Lara's opinion), and to provide other reasons for people to buy this. So besides the three previously (officially) unrecorded songs, Tu es mon autre is likely now a solo, Silence has both a French and English version, and Tout is the 'salsa' version (as the magazine Platine puts it). Unfortunately that meant that no song from AWL (i.e., I Guess I Loved You) made the cut, or from the first English album (i.e., Broken Vow). I wonder if it was deliberate not to include on the CD any songs from the records done for Sony (although one could argue that the English component of Silence was originally a Sony product). Not being on the CD does not necessarily devalue the cut; I'm sure Lara feels that the skit involving Bambina was an important part of the show, and it's only appearance is likely to be on the DVD.
In conjunction with the release Lara gave an interview in "Dernière Heure". While it does not really say much about the album, it does give an indication of her state of mind at the time of this coming release. Here is a translation (thanks to stephane25 for the French original).
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Always Terribly Worried
Brussels. A week before the release in the shelves of the live (album) of her last tour, we met Lara Fabian. Her loves, her projects, her worries…She approaches all subjects with a touching modesty. To meet.
In the film which accompanies the live DVD, one sees you in Martinique in the sun and you say: "It has been a longtime since I have been as happy"…
It is difficult to explain what I said without entering into some things very personal. It was true…I said it because around myself, there had been all that which one could love when one is well. I am very sensitive to that which surrounds me: There was a light, an incredible peace. In my life, there are four things that I love really very much: the sea, fireworks, the Christmas trees and music. There was a little of all that."
Also in this film, one sees that you worry about the well-being of your musicians. You are a little mommy of the team…
(She laughs) "Well then, this is my culture, it is my nature. I worry truly about the people that I love and there, these people there are more important than me. What counts is that they are well, otherwise the show doesn't exist. And then in my nature, I truly love others, human beings touch me."
One senses also that you have, despite experiences, always the need of being reassured…
I am terribly worried. In fact, I am not reassurable. Beyond some fact that one could reassure me on one element, there is always another which arises. The perpetuity of doubt is a constant.
Success ought to have calmed your worries however…
On the contrary: success is so ephemeral. I have a very strong relationship with my public, but it is like a love story, it is to begin again every day, to be cultivated every day. Therefore yes, I worry over certain details. And then, it is also that this time, I was in command as much in front as behind the scene. I felt accordingly more responsible because I had 57 people on the trip, entirely managed and produced by my team, to be specific myself, 5 semi and between 3,000 and 6,000 people every evening. It was a year and a half of my life entirely dedicated to that.
In 1999, you said in the DH (Dernière Heure), that you were " a pure ambition". It that still the case today?
(Silence) I really said that? It is that one is foolish when one is young! I think that one doesn't measure when one doesn't have the experience of the trade, the value of certain words and what they represent in a post-success reality. I have the energy of someone who is devoted to her craft. And if it today there is ambition, it is to keep this energy, which permits me to be enthusiastic, since the aim in any event, is to remain. To remain that means, to do another album, to continue to compose, to find some different ideas, to continue to appeal…Ambition, it is a force, a look towards the future. But I've learned how to stop losing myself in it, to stop being wedged in by my fears. Despite the doubts, I have learned to be in the moment and each day to reiterate this energy. At the time, there must have been there in my remarks a terrible immaturity.
In the DVD again, a journalist offers you some flowers and you comment while sighing: Ah, the romantic! You are irritated yourself by being it or is it a feeling which you love well in yourself?
(She shakes with laugher) I am romantic And that irritates me sometimes. Because one is disappointed, because this romanticism mops up many disappointments, that the expectations aren't always filled. I would dream that the things be more marked of this romanticism and then, the guys who love us and who accompany us in life seldom have time and then sometimes, rarely the people. I tell myself that I must stop counting on that because it doesn't exist inevitably in the sense that I want to hear it. But I think that it exists in another manner, I am not at all embittered with love.
Yours loves?
All goes well, thanks!
When she separated from Jean-Felix Lalanne, Lara chose to clarify all the gossip in the magazine Gala.
That was yacked about and it was written so badly that I decided to explain myself one time, once only. That doesn't serve anything. The true reasons for the breakup don't concern anyone. In a common accord, Jean-Felix and myself decided what we were going to say. After…
It is that Lara has retained the lesson of her ultra-media-covered breakup with Patrick Fiori and that today, she prefers to keep for herself that which truly counts.
When I am happy, I share my joys with those close to me. I no longer have the need of doing it otherwise. Certain artists have a great desire of saying everywhere that they are happy, crazy love and that is the story of their life. Me I paid the price. I have done it, I have learned that it isn't necessary to speak of oneself other than by the music. I say already so much in my songs…All that which happens to me is written, it suffices to read it.
She confirms however her actual relationship with the music film-maker Gerard Pullicino. VOICI 'made them' some time ago.
The photo speaks for itself, I could not deny it. I am victim of this genre of things because I am a public person and my loves are displayed with the line of their evolutions. That's life. I am certainly not the only woman 37 years old who has had 3, 4 people in her life in 10 years but I am public, I must accept it. My life exists also at that level, thank God.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Lara appeared on "+ de vie" on France 3 Monday, October 9. She sang "Addio del Passato", as an extract from La Traviata. It was in the mode of her performance on the ETI tour, except perhaps sung more 'carefully', and also shorter - she only sang one of the two verses. In an interview elsewhere, Lara said that she had had to work for six months on the song before using it in ETI; the impression one gets is that she didn't put in that work this time, so she wasn't as confident about it. It had been a part of her standard repertoire as late as February of 2004, when she sang it (with more conviction) in Montreal. Many of you are probably familiar with her older, more operatic version. Videos of this latest appearance are readily available on the web.
Those who are bought the "Sing with Lara" DVD from Alapage, with a release date of Sept. 29, are still waiting for it. The official explanation from Alapage is that they are 'restocking' it - but since no one has gotten it, they don't seem to have had it in the first place. Originally it was supposed to be released toward the end of the year for the Christmas holidays, and that might very well turn out to be the case.
Lara is to appear Sunday night (Oct. 15) at CAP48, a Belgian benefit for the handicapped. It will be on the Belgian Channel "La Une" and on the radio station "La Première" from 19h (Belgian time). [This update was moved up one day so as to alert those who may be able to catch the performance.]
Next week marks the release of the live album on Friday, the 20th for the 'capbox' (CD+DVD) with the individual releases the following Monday. That same evening, Lara is still listed on the official site as being at the Star Academy 6 on TF1. However, the date has been bouncing back and forth between the 20th and the 27th, so we will have to wait and see. Prior to that, on the 17th, Lara will be live on Champagne FM. And on the 22nd she will be shown on "L'ecole des fans" in Quebec on TVA, which she recorded when she was in Montreal in June. A number of other shows are scheduled for the following week, as the media blitz for the album gets into full swing. A separate thread will be established for comments anyone cares to make about the new release (CD or DVD).
David
News Update: 10/14
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Activity picks up in preparation for the coming Live album release…
Lara released a new message on her official site today, with some interesting information.
She notes that the promotion of the new album will continue through December, and following that she will focus on the Italian album. Here's her quote:
"Thinking about it is over now, I’m doing it. There is a duet with Gigi d’Alessio, an Italian artist I introduced to you in March at the Zénith. This duet will be on Gigi’s album this fall; then on my album, you will find “Aime” (“Love”) in Italian, personal and original compositions and some songs written by some great Italians…Italy is this part of me I haven’t musically explored yet and this opportunity finally comes to me. Let “FESTA” begin!!!
I hope you will like the project. Personally, I am really excited about it, excited like a child, excited just like those moments I spent with my pals in Sicilia, during my summer holidays from the age of 8 to 16. In a way, this album takes me to another life… to my roots… I hope you will follow me in this new adventure…"
Her comments are so specific it suggests that it may really be Italian, not multi-lingual. But as always, we will have to see what really happens.
She also notes that she spent time in Quebec with "Matt Herkowitz, an amazing musician, the one who created and played “Le nocturne” on the album “Nue”…" .
So we finally learn who that was!
She further says, "He has just created a project on Gershwin- fascinating- in which he gives new harmonies and musical arrangements to some of the songs. Then, he asks some mates of his (like me) to sing on this work. You will have the opportunity to hear the result soon…"
Which implies Lara has recorded another Gershwin song that we will get to hear.
Information about the songs on the CD release of Un Regard Neuf is now available; as reported by Darkloic on Laradom (from an official posting at www.mediadis.com/music/de...d=157871), the CD contains the songs:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Aime; 2. Les Homéricains; 3. J'y crois encore; 4. Il ne manquait que toi; 5. Tu es mon autre; 6. Si tu n'as pas d'amour; 7. Silence; 8. Un ave Maria; 9. Immortelle; 10. Tout; 11. Le tour du monde; 12. L'homme qui n'avait pas de maison; 13. La lettre; 14. Papa can you hear me ?; 15. A piece of sky; 16. Je me souviens.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The DVD presumably contains the rest of the songs from the full concert, although there is no explicit listing given for that. There are obviously 8 songs from Neuf, 4 from Nue, 1 from Pure and three previously unrecorded. The choice of which songs to put on the CD, which probably runs less than the full 80 minutes available, was apparently dictated by the desire to emphasize the 'lead songs' from Neuf (in Lara's opinion), and to provide other reasons for people to buy this. So besides the three previously (officially) unrecorded songs, Tu es mon autre is likely now a solo, Silence has both a French and English version, and Tout is the 'salsa' version (as the magazine Platine puts it). Unfortunately that meant that no song from AWL (i.e., I Guess I Loved You) made the cut, or from the first English album (i.e., Broken Vow). I wonder if it was deliberate not to include on the CD any songs from the records done for Sony (although one could argue that the English component of Silence was originally a Sony product). Not being on the CD does not necessarily devalue the cut; I'm sure Lara feels that the skit involving Bambina was an important part of the show, and it's only appearance is likely to be on the DVD.
In conjunction with the release Lara gave an interview in "Dernière Heure". While it does not really say much about the album, it does give an indication of her state of mind at the time of this coming release. Here is a translation (thanks to stephane25 for the French original).
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Always Terribly Worried
Brussels. A week before the release in the shelves of the live (album) of her last tour, we met Lara Fabian. Her loves, her projects, her worries…She approaches all subjects with a touching modesty. To meet.
In the film which accompanies the live DVD, one sees you in Martinique in the sun and you say: "It has been a longtime since I have been as happy"…
It is difficult to explain what I said without entering into some things very personal. It was true…I said it because around myself, there had been all that which one could love when one is well. I am very sensitive to that which surrounds me: There was a light, an incredible peace. In my life, there are four things that I love really very much: the sea, fireworks, the Christmas trees and music. There was a little of all that."
Also in this film, one sees that you worry about the well-being of your musicians. You are a little mommy of the team…
(She laughs) "Well then, this is my culture, it is my nature. I worry truly about the people that I love and there, these people there are more important than me. What counts is that they are well, otherwise the show doesn't exist. And then in my nature, I truly love others, human beings touch me."
One senses also that you have, despite experiences, always the need of being reassured…
I am terribly worried. In fact, I am not reassurable. Beyond some fact that one could reassure me on one element, there is always another which arises. The perpetuity of doubt is a constant.
Success ought to have calmed your worries however…
On the contrary: success is so ephemeral. I have a very strong relationship with my public, but it is like a love story, it is to begin again every day, to be cultivated every day. Therefore yes, I worry over certain details. And then, it is also that this time, I was in command as much in front as behind the scene. I felt accordingly more responsible because I had 57 people on the trip, entirely managed and produced by my team, to be specific myself, 5 semi and between 3,000 and 6,000 people every evening. It was a year and a half of my life entirely dedicated to that.
In 1999, you said in the DH (Dernière Heure), that you were " a pure ambition". It that still the case today?
(Silence) I really said that? It is that one is foolish when one is young! I think that one doesn't measure when one doesn't have the experience of the trade, the value of certain words and what they represent in a post-success reality. I have the energy of someone who is devoted to her craft. And if it today there is ambition, it is to keep this energy, which permits me to be enthusiastic, since the aim in any event, is to remain. To remain that means, to do another album, to continue to compose, to find some different ideas, to continue to appeal…Ambition, it is a force, a look towards the future. But I've learned how to stop losing myself in it, to stop being wedged in by my fears. Despite the doubts, I have learned to be in the moment and each day to reiterate this energy. At the time, there must have been there in my remarks a terrible immaturity.
In the DVD again, a journalist offers you some flowers and you comment while sighing: Ah, the romantic! You are irritated yourself by being it or is it a feeling which you love well in yourself?
(She shakes with laugher) I am romantic And that irritates me sometimes. Because one is disappointed, because this romanticism mops up many disappointments, that the expectations aren't always filled. I would dream that the things be more marked of this romanticism and then, the guys who love us and who accompany us in life seldom have time and then sometimes, rarely the people. I tell myself that I must stop counting on that because it doesn't exist inevitably in the sense that I want to hear it. But I think that it exists in another manner, I am not at all embittered with love.
Yours loves?
All goes well, thanks!
When she separated from Jean-Felix Lalanne, Lara chose to clarify all the gossip in the magazine Gala.
That was yacked about and it was written so badly that I decided to explain myself one time, once only. That doesn't serve anything. The true reasons for the breakup don't concern anyone. In a common accord, Jean-Felix and myself decided what we were going to say. After…
It is that Lara has retained the lesson of her ultra-media-covered breakup with Patrick Fiori and that today, she prefers to keep for herself that which truly counts.
When I am happy, I share my joys with those close to me. I no longer have the need of doing it otherwise. Certain artists have a great desire of saying everywhere that they are happy, crazy love and that is the story of their life. Me I paid the price. I have done it, I have learned that it isn't necessary to speak of oneself other than by the music. I say already so much in my songs…All that which happens to me is written, it suffices to read it.
She confirms however her actual relationship with the music film-maker Gerard Pullicino. VOICI 'made them' some time ago.
The photo speaks for itself, I could not deny it. I am victim of this genre of things because I am a public person and my loves are displayed with the line of their evolutions. That's life. I am certainly not the only woman 37 years old who has had 3, 4 people in her life in 10 years but I am public, I must accept it. My life exists also at that level, thank God.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Lara appeared on "+ de vie" on France 3 Monday, October 9. She sang "Addio del Passato", as an extract from La Traviata. It was in the mode of her performance on the ETI tour, except perhaps sung more 'carefully', and also shorter - she only sang one of the two verses. In an interview elsewhere, Lara said that she had had to work for six months on the song before using it in ETI; the impression one gets is that she didn't put in that work this time, so she wasn't as confident about it. It had been a part of her standard repertoire as late as February of 2004, when she sang it (with more conviction) in Montreal. Many of you are probably familiar with her older, more operatic version. Videos of this latest appearance are readily available on the web.
Those who are bought the "Sing with Lara" DVD from Alapage, with a release date of Sept. 29, are still waiting for it. The official explanation from Alapage is that they are 'restocking' it - but since no one has gotten it, they don't seem to have had it in the first place. Originally it was supposed to be released toward the end of the year for the Christmas holidays, and that might very well turn out to be the case.
Lara is to appear Sunday night (Oct. 15) at CAP48, a Belgian benefit for the handicapped. It will be on the Belgian Channel "La Une" and on the radio station "La Première" from 19h (Belgian time). [This update was moved up one day so as to alert those who may be able to catch the performance.]
Next week marks the release of the live album on Friday, the 20th for the 'capbox' (CD+DVD) with the individual releases the following Monday. That same evening, Lara is still listed on the official site as being at the Star Academy 6 on TF1. However, the date has been bouncing back and forth between the 20th and the 27th, so we will have to wait and see. Prior to that, on the 17th, Lara will be live on Champagne FM. And on the 22nd she will be shown on "L'ecole des fans" in Quebec on TVA, which she recorded when she was in Montreal in June. A number of other shows are scheduled for the following week, as the media blitz for the album gets into full swing. A separate thread will be established for comments anyone cares to make about the new release (CD or DVD).
David
