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True concept albums are actually few and far between.
While it can be said that The Who’s Tommy and Quadrophenia, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Lou Reed and John Cale’s Songs For Drella were designed from the ground up, that’s not necessarily the case for equally mythical, yet composite, albums such as Bowie’s The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars and Diamond Dogs, or Lou Reed’s Berlin. In France, the genre established its pedigree in the 1970s with Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson and L’homme à tête de chou, then in the early 1980s with Léo Ferré’s L’Opéra du pauvre.
Mélanie Chédeville’s Cri d’amour adds to this list of albums that tell a story through characters.
Cri d’amour was produced in a seaside setting, which may explain its flowing, organic character – and the fact that it deviates from electronic music in spite of its title’s homophony with Guy-Manuel De Homem Christo (of Daft Punk fame) and Éric Chédeville’s foundational French Touch label Crydamoure. This fact might not be so fortuitous since the name was, among other things, about the deep friendship between the two boys – and its brutal end, which was not… afficher plus
Toutes les chansons composées, écrites, arrangées et interprétées
par Melanie Chedeville
Voix Mélanie Chédeville
Batteries par Tony Allen
Guitare Basse Rody Cereyon
Percussions, batteries additionnelles, synths : Mélanie Chédeville
Synths Eric Chédeville Claviers: Patrick Goraguer, Mélanie Chédeville. Claviers Additionels: Eric Chédeville. Guitares accoustiques Muna Indy Dibongue, Mélanie Chédeville
Autoharp: Mélanie Chédeville
Strings: F.A.M.E.S Studio Orchestra
Chœurs : Angie Berthias, Charlotte Berry, Léo Rafaël, Julie Menet, Lenaïc Herviaux, Mélanie Chédeville.
Orchestre Fames Project enregistré en Macedoine, sous la supervision de Dzijan Emin et dirigé par Oleg Kondratenko
Enregistrements Batteries, Basse, Piano, Chœurs, Hammon B3 au Studio CBE Paris par David Mestre
