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Top 10 french albums in 2009
30/12/2009 -
They were 2009 happenings. Some of them were eagerly awaited, others less so. From Matthieu Chédid, alias M, to Phoenix, via Michel Delpech and Diam's, these French artists, through their record production and their concerts in France and elsewhere, have left an artistic mark on the French scene.
Benjamin Biolay
Benjamin Biolay - a singer, songwriter and composer renowned for his insatiable musical appetite - is back in the news with a bumper double album entitled La Superbe. Just two ...
Mister Mystère
Matthieu Chédid's new album, Mister Mystère (Mr Mystery) could not have been more aptly named. The making of Chédid's fourth album has been surrounded in secrecy ...
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Back with Beck
Two years after her last album 5:55 (produced by French electro-pop hipsters Air), Charlotte Gainsbourg is back in the news with an album produced by American indie rock icon Beck...
Olivia Ruiz
On her eagerly-awaited third album, Miss Météores, Olivia Ruiz whirls through a galaxy of musical styles. And the quirky brunette from the Languedoc ...
Phoenix
Versailles-based foursome Phoenix have gone back to their roots on their fourth album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. ...
Sylvie Vartan
Sylvie Vartan, the indefatigable show-woman, is back in the news this month with Toutes peines confondues, an album that offers its fair share of surprises. ...
Emilie Simon in the Big Apple
Three years after her last album, Végétal, Emilie Simon is back on the music scene exploring New York's urban jungle. RFI Musique hooks up with the young French electro star ...
Hugues Aufray covers Bob Dylan
Hugues Aufray is back in the spotlight with Newyorker, an album of Bob Dylan covers on which he teams up with Johnny Hallyday, Alain Souchon, Eddy Mitchell, Arno and ...
Renaud, Irish ballads French style
Renaud transforms thirteen traditional Irish songs into as many new French numbers in Molly Malone, released three years after his last album, Rouge sang.
Murat records in Nashville
Jean-Louis Murat instigated a dramatic change of scene on his new album, heading off to record in Nashville, Tennessee. RFI Musique hooked up with the notoriously hard-working musician ...
