Bowie, Orlando Weeks, Yard Act, Lady Wray… Nos albums coups de cœur

THE MORNING LIST

The Music section team offers you a selection of albums, published in January and which have been appreciated and reviewed in our pages. Either, in the order of their marketing: an album by David Bowie recorded in 2000, mainly in a pop-rok atmosphere, the release of which had not taken place; the sophisticated pop second album by Orlando Weeks; a monograph devoted to the composer and founding conductor of the TM + ensemble, Laurent Cuniot; the chronicles of the tensions of the United Kingdom, or rather disunited, by the group Yard Act; Alexia Gredy’s first album, full of intimate and musical emotions; a terribly danceable mixtape by singer FKA Twigs; the music of the Belgian quintet Black Flower, a journey through ethio-jazz and afrobeat; the affirmation of his first soul love of Lady Wray; the stylistic overlaps between jazz, classical, Latin American music and the Irish roots of violinist Fiona Monbet.

« Toy », de David Bowie

In the summer of 2000, David Bowie brought together the musicians of his group to record new versions of songs from before his glory in the early 1970s. They date from the 1960s (including Liza Janefrom 1964, Baby Loves That Way and You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving from 1965, I Dig Everything, from 1966, The London Boys, Silly Boy Blue, Karma Man…), with three from the beginning of 1970 (Hole in The Ground, Conversation Piece and Shadow Man). Bowie also brings three novelties, Afraid, Uncle Floyd, later titled Slip Awayand Toy (You Turn To Drive). Instrumental additions are made (violin, trumpet…) as well as choirs and string arrangements.

The album, titled Toy, has several release dates announced before Bowie’s record company, unconvinced, cancels the release. A pirate publication will be distributed in 2011 on the Internet, until the legal release of Toy, now presented in a box with twelve songs from the album as it was planned. Without the novelties Afraid and Slip Away, and without Liza Jane which is on the second CD, which brings together different mixes, while the third brings together acoustic takes of the different titles. In its general rather pop atmosphere, with some rock deviations, Toy looks quite nice and can now fit between Hours (1999) and Heathen (2002) in Bowie’s official discography. Sylvain Siclier

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