While Alain Bashung has been dead for almost ten years, a posthumous album will be released Friday, November 24 to present unreleased tracks to his fans. The singer's former collaborator, Edith Fambuena, worked for many years to reconstruct this album from the last studio recordings of the singer shortly before his death. The result is striking and revives the singer the time of the eleven songs that make up the album.
An album validated by Chloé Mons
Chloé Mons is a successful actress and singer who married Alain Baschung in 2001. They had met on the set of the video clip of the famous song La nuit je mens. Since the death of the artist, she has become, by necessity, the guardian of the temple of the work of Alain Baschung. This album could not have seen the light of day without his agreement.
Her agreement, the actress and singer gave it without hesitation. According to her, there is no doubt about this record. She is sure that Alain Bashung would have liked him and that's why she agreed to let him go out. For everyone who worked on the project, led by Edith Fambuena, this approval was important and not only from a legal point of view.
Chloé Mons even added to her statements that this album was an excellent opportunity for her to honor a wish dear to Alain Bashung: that all his works live, without exception, even those he did not have time to finish. With this album taken from the last recordings of the singer's life, he finally reaches the goal.
The incredible story of Dominique A's song
We no longer present Dominique A, another giant of French song. Singer-songwriter, he has often collaborated with the greatest and his concerts are sold out. To hear him interpret his greatest titles, it is better to do it in advance and use a platform like Alex Events that allows you to follow the live news of the artists of your choice.
Among Dominique A's greatest hits is a song entitled Immortels. Fans may then have been surprised to discover this same song on Alain Bashung's posthumous album. Why is this song on Bashung's album at the same time as Dominique A's? Because the song was written and composed for Bashung by Dominique A.
Originally, the song was to appear on the last album released before his death: Bleu Pétrole. It had been recorded, but it was never used. Dominique A then decided to recover the song and integrate it into his album La Musique. Shortly after, Alain Bashung died and since then, the song has retained a special aura for Dominique A who continues to play it on stage. He said he found it wonderful to finally hear it being sung by Bashung.
A highly anticipated album
Needless to say, this posthumous album is eagerly awaited by fans. It will be called En Amont and the song Immortals, gently bitter ten years after the death of the singer, has already been revealed to the public for a few days. All the titles that will compose it will be unreleased from the recording of the album Bleu Pétrole released ten years ago.
Edith Fambuena, armed with the sincere passion she has always devoted to the singer, found the courage and patience to exhume all the tapes. It was then necessary to rework them for a long time to make a coherent album worthy of Bashung's perfectionism. A titanic work that the friends and family of the singer, Chloé Mons in the lead, approved and saluted.
If the album is eagerly awaited, it is also because the unreleased tracks that compose it promise very nice surprises. What for? Already because they were all written and composed by very big names of French song like Raphaël, Daniel Darc, Armand Méliès and many others. Then, because all Bashung fans know how much he liked to surprise.
Other posthumous albums exist
If this posthumous album is the first containing unreleased tracks, it is not the first posthumous album. First, a few months after Alain Bashung's death, a complete set of all his recordings since 1977 had been marketed. It also contained live albums and DVDs and was well received by the public.
Then, in 2011, L'Homme à la tête de chou, Bashung's thirteenth album, was released. This album was a complete cover of Serge Gainsbourg's famous album of the same name. Alain Bashung had recorded this album for the needs of a musical and choreographic show. Two years after his death, he was presented to the public.
En amont will therefore be the second real posthumous album of the singer and the only one containing unreleased recordings. Edith Fambuena did not comment on the possible existence of other unreleased recordings and on the future release of a second album. However, this remains quite unlikely, but nothing prevents fans from hoping.
