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    Dix chansons naturelles et sauvages

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    Solide et solitaire

Hugo Chastanet

Bertrand Burgalat presents the album:

I met Hugo Chastanet 25 years ago, at Studio Madeleine, in Brussels, where I had the pleasure of recording him. Madeleine, despite its name, was not a particularly Proustian place: once frequented by Billy Preston, Lou Deprijck's den was then mainly devoted to the dubbing of soft pornographic films.

Hugo was gentle too, just like now, talented, genuinely kind. He wasn't cheating. His love of hand-knitted songs was already anachronistic, today kindness and beauty constitute the purest form of rebellion, placing a bridge or A flat major on B flat is a challenge to the established order.

After having sung in the suburban trains or in front of fans of Pascal Obispo, Hugo returns with this pure and hard album, without make-up, which further highlights the elegance of his songs. The intertwining of guitars, its ultra-precise arpeggios remind me of bands like The Lotus Eaters, The Sundays, or Trespass's Genesis, but these may not be his most direct sources of inspiration.

Anyway his admirations are claimed, so with this Marianne by Michel Delpech, and when we listen to Tourony Ppda, the last title, splendid, we can imagine what Personne comme toi, Je voulais de l'or or Ce qu'est devenu le chien can give with another instrumentation: these Dix chansons naturelles et sauvages are universal. They must be protected like the isard or the lynx of the Pyrenees, and their creator classified as world heritage by Unesco.

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The beautiful escape

28th November 2020

Thank you Frédéric Renson and L'Avenir for this half page about the new album Dix chansons naturelles et sauvages.

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Small snapshots of life sketched with sensitivity and elegance

25th November 2020

Thanks a lot Longueur d'Ondes ! [...] De sa voix juvénile, carressante, il parvient une nouvelle fois à émouvoir, ce qu’il s’évertue à faire depuis une bonne vingtaine d’années dans une cruelle confidentialité. [...]

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Melodies alternately solar or melancholic

15th September 2020

Thank you Le Soir and Thierry Coljon for this review of Dix Chansons Naturelles et Sauvages. [...] On retrouve chez Hugo cette même sensibilité pour les belles chansons où il se révèle une fois de plus Solide et solitaire, comme le dit le titre ouvrant ce disque d’une sobriété exemplaire. Les disques les plus simples sont les plus difficiles à réaliser, a-t-on l’habitude de dire. Hugo chante l’amour et la vie, tout simplement. Et c’est beau et doux… [...]

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A slender and fragile pop

13th September 2020

Thanks a lot Froggy's Delight for this beautiful review of the album of Hugo Chastanet ! [...] La finesse, la justesse de ton, une belle écriture, le naturel et la sobriété permettent, dans une configuration guitare et voix qui ne laisse pas la place à l’approximation, à ces belles chansons pleine d’émotion de s’épanouir totalement. Une belle réussite. [...]

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