IGGY POP - Après (GM Edition Repress) - LP - Black Vinyl [NOV 29]

LP - 2024 Black Vinyl Repress of the GM Edition which was released as a limited 10th anniversary edition on coloured vinyl for Black Friday 2022 which previously had been released only in France in 2012.  

Since 'Preliminaires' in 2009, we know that Iggy Pop can express himself in other ways than roaring on guitars in a shower of splinters. Only dictated by his artistic aspirations and driven by a vital need to go to the point, he recorded in 2012 eleven heartful songs under heavy French influences. With these covers of Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose", Serge Gainsbourg's "La Javanaise", Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'", Henri Salvador's "Syracuse", or The Beatles' "Michelle", Iggy has nothing to prove. He simply brings another side of his personality to light.

With his gut-stirring, beautiful and deep voice, Iggy Pop takes these classics, reshapes them his own way and gives us goosebumps.

For the 10th anniversary reissue a couple of years ago (Black Friday 2022), Iggy Pop covered "La Belle Vie". The song was composed by Raymond Le Senechal and Sacha Distel, and co-written by Jean-Broussolle and Jack Reardon in 1962. It became a jazz standard in 1963 when Tony Bennett recorded it under the title "The Good Life". Has Iggy Pop buried the hatchet? Nothing is less certain. The elegance of the arrangements takes the songs directly to what matters with a conviction more dangerous than any weapon!

Tracklist: 

A1        Et Si Tu N'Existais Pas...
A2        La Javanaise
A3        Everybody's Talkin'
A4        I'm Going Away Smiling
A5        La Vie En Rose

B1        Les Passantes
B2        Syracuse
B3        What Is This Thing Called Love?
B4        Michelle
B5        Only The Lonely
B6        La Belle Vie