Damso, Alicia Keys, Thelonious Monk ... Our weekend playlist

Pop with AaRON, jazz with Thelonious Monk and punchlines with Damso and the Klub des Loosers ... Check out our weekend playlist.

Thelonious Monk, unreleased

The little story in the big one.

In 1968, the death of Martin Luther King stirred up the racial tensions that rocked the United States.

In Palo Alto, 15-year-old Danny Scher dreams of having pianist Thelonious Monk play in his high school.

He sees it as a way of reconciling communities.

The unprecedented release of this live is yet another but no less profitable opportunity to appreciate the genius of the pianist, then at the end of his career - he recorded his last album as a leader at the end of 1968. As a quartet, with Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), Larry Gales (bass) and Ben Riley (drums), Thelonious Monk revisits his usual compositions and covers: “

”, “

”, “

”, “

Or "

".

Damso, the return of the king

End of the suspense.

Probably the most awaited album of the new school year,

(“Who loves me like and follows me”) marks the return with great pomp of Damso, prodigy of the golden generation of Belgian rap.

After obtaining the prize for the best album of the year at the Victoires de la musique in 2019 for

, William Kalubi Mwamba, whose real name was, was discreet.

For this new 14-track record, Damso has offered the presence of his compatriot, the Brussels rapper Hamza, on the track "

".

But also of the Congolese superstar Fally Ipupa which he finds on

or the young singer Lous and the Yakuza who accompanies him on the eloquent

.

AaRON's dream

Five long years.

The time needed for Simon Buret and Olivier Coursier, the duo that make up the group AaRON, to come back with a new album.

A pure electro-pop product, Anatomy of Lights can be listened to when you close your eyes.

The disc also benefits from slight rock touches present in some titles such as

or

As usual and with talent, AaRON juggles between English and French, sometimes from one song to another, sometimes from one verse to one. chorus.

The titles are airy, sweet and intoxicating, like the already famous

, whose excellent clip with Jean-Claude Van Damme already has nearly a million views.

Sophie Hunger, Swiss perfection

Halluzinationen

is the seventh album by the Swiss muse.

Born from an observation of the singer of her own anxieties, the record lends itself to solitary but comforting listening.

Either the usual introspective cocoon for Sophie Hunger.

Even the joy with

is ironic, by its own admission, but no less intoxicating.

Sophie Hunger's slightly electronic pop hypnotizes, like the

motif

, simple but loaded with emotion.

Even German slips under the language of the one who cut her teeth by interpreting Björk or PJ Harvey at his beginnings.

Butcher Brown, deep into the groove

Their very American talent for groove leaves no doubt about their origin.

Butcher Brown shines in his facility to make vibrate the heritage of

(jazz, funk, fusion…).

Greasy electric bass, syncopation, psychedelic effects… All the directions taken by these virtuosos of the instrument lead to pleasure, the true guiding thread of their project.

Like the broad spectrum that

crosses

, from funk in its classic style to a contemporary, edgy, a little demented rereading, Fearless Flyers style.

The rapped tracks ("

", "

") underline the obvious: hip-hop permeates a whole facet of this first album for

, property of Universal.

A form of industrial consecration for already accomplished artists

Klub des Loosers, punchlines for the winners

Pure Klub.

Fuzati has maintained a certain continuity of spirit since the publication of

in 2004. We find in

the bitter criticism of the disillusioned Versaillais.

It is under the monotonous tone, in rich and colorful texts, that his language comes to life.

As a late visitor to the depths of the soul, he aptly mocks the failures and the small ambitions that inhabit us.

Sometimes a convinced Bourdieusian, sometimes a practicing Nietzschean, beyond good and evil.

His music shows that every deep mind advances in masks

Lang Lang, Bach with honors

He didn't feel ready.

The first time the prodigy Lang Lang performed

in public, he was still only 17 years old.

“

says.

Today, he is approaching his forties.

The arm injury he suffered three years ago has been fully healed and he himself admits he needs more challenges than ever to question himself.

Baroque music seemed like an ideal challenge to him: “

This time, the pianist did not hesitate to take his audience and his career backwards to deliver his recording of the legendary

.

Both full of devotion to the God Bach… And eminently personal.

The Motif, creative genius

Booba, Damso, Niska or even SCH, the biggest names in French rap trusted Olivier Lesnicki, alias Le Motif.

This time, the talented Brussels producer and beatmaker has chosen to go to the other side of the window of the recording studio and to take his turn in the lyrics.

Soberly titled "Part One", his EP, which was initially due out before the summer, was postponed due to the health crisis.

In August, to wait until the project was released, Le Motif took on the challenge of creating one title per day for a month, by posting a video of the process on YouTube, in the footsteps of a certain… Stromae.

Thylacine attacks large

New face of the electronic scene in France, Thylacine has embarked on an exploration of the great pieces of the classical repertoire.

He is gradually revealing the content of his next album,

to be released next weekend.

After

Erik Satie's

and

Gregorio Allegri's

, he tackles a work by Russian Sheremetiev.

In this contemporary rereading, Thylacine added a throbbing piano to the original male choirs for a bombastic effect that the clip accentuates with a lot of slow motion.

Alicia Keys Keys

Years go by, but soon to be 40 Alicia Keys is still “

”.

Four years after

, the singer with the soft but powerful voice is back with a seventh album more personal and aptly named

.

There are many collaborations, including the talented Khalid, but also the soul singer Jill Scott, to whom Alicia Keys has chosen to dedicate a song.

For the rest, nothing exotic but a pleasant album which alternates between rnb songs ("

") and jazz ("

").