Escroc

This album is one that waxes delightfully lyrically, with a genuine maturity, declares a bribed critic, grandiose poems and tiny little stories, a beach seller of Chouchou who was dreaming of being a surfer, a captain of an oil tanker ready to set off, a touch of waltz-rock bringing us lively on ‘Abbesses ’, a hint of reaggae a hymn to ‘La vie ma belle’, the ‘Ballade de Villon’ in real folk for a tribute to the poet and last but not least it struts with the cocky groove of a swindler (in ‘Escroc’) that flaunts himself. Arnold’s splendid and moving lead vocals are at the center, the music incorporates many styles and is always inventive, at times gypsy-like, theatrical, tragic, joyful, and of course cynical- all accomplished with remarkable sophistication and what would otherwise be a contradiction – an uncanny rawness. Escroc is no fraud though.

Musicians :
Jérémie Arnold : vocals
Hadrien Bériot : guitars
Hugo Zanghi : bass
Félix Foucart : drums, percussions
Benjamin Dimerman : keyboards

Brass section :
Julien Varin : sax-horns, tuba
Yannick Cognet : saxophones
Marc Niess : trumpet, bugle