Eric Legnini is back for the Blue Note Festival with a concert at the New Morning on November 15 and releases I Want You Back as a music video with guest Michelle Willis. The track is on his latest album Waxx Up, released in Deluxe version on November 03, 2017.
near The Vox, which earned Eric Legnini a Victoire de la Musique in 2011, then Sing Twice in 2013, Eric Legnini continues his vocal trilogy with a host of varied guests such as Yael Naïm, Charles X, Mathieu Boogaerts, Michelle Willis, Hugh Coltman, Natalie Williams, actress Anaëlle Potdevin, and brass with Ibrahim Maalouf. In the spotlight, let's mention the American singer Michelle Willis who opens the album with I Want You Back, and returns three other times with her voice of a confounding flexibility. "Without this meeting, I don't know if I would have dared such a record," he explained. After Despair feat Yael Naim, discover the clip of the second single of the album Waxx Up: I want you back feat Michelle Willis. An autumnal staging directed by the talented Marc Obin that accurately illustrates the nostalgic feelings expressed through this title with soul accents.
Here is the clip of I Want You Back with Michelle Willis:
Soul and funk have always been present in Legnini. Yet this is the first time to our knowledge that the artist expresses it so clearly in a personal album. "Exit" the double bass, swing and grand piano: the time for the brass section, the wahwah pedal and the groove has come. And Waxx Up is a festival of grooves where jazz and soul, vintage and the future come together. To discover also on the Deluxe version of the beautiful unreleased and instrumental.