Search - Gredericks, Goldman :: Rouge New 1993

SOME KIND OF BLISS

S. NICOLAS | 08/05/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"No word could express the magic of Jean-Jacques Goldman... Listen to any of his albums, and you'll understand what talent really is. "Rouge" is a great experience. A blissful one. "Rouge" means "red" in English : the colour of blood, the colour of passion, thus the colour of life. And this celebration of life is obvious through the wonderful song "Juste Après", which tells the story of a dying baby who's finally rescued by an african nurse. Goldman evokes a great deal of themes (prostitution - "Fermer les yeux" -, fate - "Des vies" - and political commitment -"Rouge"-) Moreover, Goldman explores many music styles from rock and roll ("Des vies" is a tribute to Dire Strait) to African rhythms ("Que disent les chansons du monde"?) This record is a universal record, thus an essential one."

"Juste apres"--SImply brilliant!

S. NICOLAS | 12/10/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A few years ago, on a quick stopover in Paris, I stepped out of a taxi and into the lobby of a small Americanized Left Bank hotel whose homage to French culture was paid in chunks of unripened brie for breakfast and snatches of French rock on the elevator's Muzak! But it only takes a few bars (or floors) of Jean Jacques Goldman's "Juste apres" or "On n'a pas change" (sorry, purists, no accents on this keyboard) to mentally transport an American to Paris.(Certainly Goldman could transform the most pedestrian of "no surprise" hotels into a bohemian enclave of "Back in the USSR" nostalgia. This is a terrific album: noteworthy for Goldman's brainy refrains and Carole Fredericks' haunting vocal work ("Il part")."