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Blue Note pays tribute to the Belgian keyboardist-composer Marc Moulin (1942 - 2008) and releases the first 'best of' of one of the electro jazz pioneer and lounge star in the years 2000. Also, in limited edition the "Boxof ", a 3 albums anthology including 45 titles, among those 15 unreleased, rare or live tracks. Moulin founded Placebo in the early seventies, mining a jazz fusion vein laid down by Weather Report and Soft Machine. In the 90's, the 75 album “Sam’ Suffy“ released just after the end of Placebo, was being bought and sold for huge sums in London, Tokyo and San Francisco. DJ Vadim, Jill Scott, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Aim and others drew inspiration and sometimes re-built new tracks using this raw material. In three albums for Blue Note in the years 2000, he redefined in his terms the principles of Chill Out/Lounge and electro jazz, very popular in the early part of the decade. |
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| The success was worldly saluted. Thirty years after his first release, this man of all genres that was as comfortable in jazz and electro as he was in pop, produced the synthesis of a life devoted to his eclectic passions in his three last albums. Chopin, comic strips, Brian Eno, Tex Avery, Marvin Gaye, Kraftwerk, Ben Sidran and Miles Davis are the common threads. As in all Moulin's work, these three albums are steeped in quite a lot of soul, a little slavic melancholy, rarefied aesthetics and a purity of conception that is close to architecture. Nor forgetting the modest but mischievous stance so typical of Brussels. With a keen sense of second degree humour, he maliciously pointed out the obvious when he stated, “There will always be people that ask Stevie Wonder why he sings like Jamiroquai“. “Top Secret“ and the single “Into the dark“, brought Marc his biggest success and international recognition. But the album's release in 2001 was a surprise for many people. His compatriots knew that he had switched to a domain that suited him perfectly, as an editorialist in Télé Moustique magazine. He had also written two plays and an essay, “La surenchère (L'horreur médiatique)”, a visionary and pessimistic criticism of media. After “Entertainment“ in 2004, the logical musical follow-up to “Top Secret“, Marc hooked up with his old writing partner Jacques Duvall for the lyrics to “I Am You“. In his two first Blue Note albums, the songs interpreted by the delicious Christa were often just extracts of phrases that he worked with on samplers. With “I Am You“, the evolution was clear, more soulful, more like songs. He had found the magic formula, finally bringing together everything he loved with - as ever - the loyal Bert Joris on trumpet. This is the balance that he was ready to develop on the fourth album that will never be released. We can get an idea of the direction that he was considering with the cover of “Comme à la radio“, a dark and hypnotic track created in 1969 by the French chanteuse Brigitte Fontaine with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Marc used his own voice, like on the radio. As if to remind us why we loved Marc Moulin and how he became an example of finesse and uprightness for two generations of listeners, readers and music lovers. Marc Moulin Bestof (1CD) - Bestof Restof (2CD - Fnac limited edition) - Boxof (3CD) Release: 14th September 2009 31st August 2009, Press Release: |
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Humoeurs est un mot-tiroir de mon invention (où diable vais-je chercher ces sensationnelles trouvailles ?) Il contracte avec astuce trois mots : humeur, humour et moeurs. Et c’est exactement ce dont il s’agit, au fil de ces pages lumineuses : s’énerver et sourire des comportements de ceux qui, de plus en plus et souvent sans réfléchir, nous envoient droit au mur, car ils n’ont pas la clairvoyance que moi je possède. Marc Moulin C’est ainsi que Marc Moulin présentait avec la verve et le talent qu’on lui connaît ses brillantes chroniques hebdomadaires, publiées dans Télé Moustique de janvier 1997 à août 2008. Ce livre vous offre le meilleur de la quintessence des 600 articles du célèbre chroniqueur, illustré par le très talentueux Pierre Kroll. Editions Luc Pire / ISBN : 9782507002701 |
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Les mots pour rire. Officiellement, Marc Moulin a quitté la RTBF en 1998. Après avoir déjà beaucoup inventé pour la maison, il avait encore espéré en rénover les radios. Mais, vient un moment où, selon ses propres conclusions, « il vaut mieux abandonner le rôle de Don Quichotte pour s’occuper de ses fesses et bien faire ce qu’on doit faire ». Une nouvelle vie commençait. Elle était chargée mais bien rangée. En bas, téléphone coupé, Marc Moulin se consacrait à la musique. |
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Marc Moulin IN CONCERT: 31 MARCH 2007 AT FLAGEY (BRUSSELS) / pictures gallery 8 January 2007, Press Release: |
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There comes a day when an artist says, “This album is the culmination of all my musical explorations”. For Marc Moulin, that day is now: “I am you” brings together Moulin’s jazz, Moulin’s chanson, Moulin’s electro, Moulin’s new-soul. All the Moulin that made black music a priority for him… in his own particular way. This release is the sexiest, the hottest and the mellowest of his career. Guaranteed to stand the test of time, it will be one for a late afternoon sitting by the fire and for an après-clubbing chill-out session. It will be the ideal companion for dreaming of being somewhere that is obviously better than here. Because without a doubt, “I am you” is the best album in Marc Moulin’s career. Music is the sound of memories, of things that are familiar. But also of sounds for which the present asks the past to dance. |
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“I am you”, Marc Moulin’s new album is also his third for Blue Note, after “Top Secret” in 2001 and “Entertainment” in 2004. It carries us through peaceful soundscapes, along the sensual, sinuous banks of a river. The atmosphere is warm and damp. “Welcome to the club”, the opener, ushers us into Moulin’s singular world. It’s a sort of club that he has owned for years already, but which he has re-decorated. A club in which each room shows a part of the musical life of the founder of Placebo (1971-1974, as charted in “Placebo Sessions” from 2006) and Telex. |
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