Gabi Hartmann - La femme aux yeux de sel (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Gabi Hartmann is the atypical universe of an artist who blurs the styles between pop, folk, jazz, soul and world. She sings what inspires her in several languages, escaping the categories. She knew how to impose her own style, but also her ambiguous emotion: a voice with a warm and clear timbre, at the same time soft, melancholic and soothing. Her eponymous debut album, released in 2023, has been listened to more than twenty million times and sold more than 15,000 copies (the best Jazz /World sale in France of the year) and earned her the Gold Disk Award for the best new international artist in Japan, as well as great distinctions in the French and world press, and chains several sold-out dates (at the Francofolies in La Rochelle, at the Seine Musicale and at La Cigale). Today, Gabi is back with her second album entitled La femme aux yeux de sel. This album opens with a nursery rhyme that tells the story of a woman named Salinda, inhabitant of a dream island, whose salt eyes melt with each tear shed. To treat her eyes, she goes on a trip in search of the secrets of salt. Would the album be the little mirror of this tale? Gabi discovers herself there and grows through the songs, getting to know herself by questioning both the world around her and her inner world, just like her experiences of life as a woman. She tells above all about her emotions: the joy of her travels and the difficulty of opening up to others, the melancholy that awaits her, the anger in front of a sick world, the suffering, the anguish, then the wonder of nature that heals her. She draws her inspiration from female artists: Salinda is inspired by the Island Rumba from Marguerite Duras' film India Song, (composed and arranged with Oan Kim). She pays tribute to Latin American music and in particular to female voices such as those of Mercedes Sosa, but also of the South African singer Miriam Makeba who has inspired her for years. Finally, this album is the result of beautiful collaborations both old (Oan Kim and Jesse Harris) and new: we can hear the Syrian flutist Naïssam Jalal on the track Le sunrise, questioning the state of the world. This piece, like Love High and Your secret World, was composed and realized with the saxophonist and composer Laurent Bardainne (who collaborated with Camélia Jordana, Jeanne Added and November Ultra). We can also recognize the creation of Baptiste Trotignon, with whom she composes the piece Melancholie, magnified by the emotion and elegance of the string arrangements of the Brazilian composer Maycon Ananias. With her latent melancholy and her universe rich in colors and rhythms, Gabi gradually makes the boundaries between eras and styles porous to write a dreamlike world of her own. This is the secret of this multifaceted personal record, demanding and accessible in the same breath.

TRACKLIST

1 Salinda, la fille aux yeux de sel
2 Love High - Gabi Hartmann feat. Laurent Bardainne
3 Sikolaiko
4 Into My World
5 Ton monde secret
6 Fool's Paradise
7 Take a Swing at the Moon
8 La Pomena
9 Melancolie
10 Le lever du soleil - Gabi Hartmann feat. Naissam Jalal / Hartmann, Gabrielle / Diaz, Eda
11 Natureza
12 Lakutshon' Ilanga
13 Drink the Ocean - Gabi Hartmann feat. The Oracle Sisters / Johansen, Julia / Lazar, Lewis / Willatt, Christopher
14 Fin



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