Alain Bashung - Tournée des Grands Espaces

Though he was present at the birth of '60s rock & roll in France, it took another 15 years for Alain Bashung's star to rise. Born in Paris in 1947, he was raised in Alsace but left home at the age of 16 to begin playing in a cover band with several friends. The group lasted several years, until Bashung began recording on his own, for Philips, in 1966. Ten years would pass before any degree of success, though he did play a prominent role in 1972's La Revolution Francaise, the French rock opera produced by Claude-Michel Schoenberg.

In 1976, Alain Bashung began working with lyricist Boris Bergman and songwriter Andy Scott. The change in atmosphere proved helpful, and after test runs on Bashung's long-delayed 1977 debut album and 1979's Roulette Russe, the 1980 single "Gaby, Oh Gaby" became a monster hit. After Bashung became a star and gained his first gold record that year, he then recorded another with "Vertigo de l'amour," from the album Pizza. He fulfilled a life-long dream in 1982 when he recorded with Serge Gainsbourg. During the mid-'80s, Bashung remained at the top of the French pop firmament, with singles like "S.O.S. Amor" and "Touche Pas A Mon Pote." He endured a fallout with critics — and consequently, the public — during the late '80s, but then roared back with 1991's Josephine. The album, a song cycle concerning one of the most famous women in French history, became the biggest hit of Bashung's career, selling well and earning him three Victoires de la Musique awards. Besides the similarly thematic follow-up Chatterton, Bashung released several live shows, plus a career-spanning box set.-Biography by John Bush

Tous ces mots mis en musique approchent l’irréprochable, tutoient la perfection et sont encore très loin devant la majorité de la production artistique de notre époque navrante.
Seul Alain BASHUNG peut oser se déplacer dans les grands espaces, libres et ivre de sa poésie unique et de cette si singulière approche du verbe scandé sur une musique envoûtante de douceur et de fureur.
Tous les univers se mélangent, instables et inquiétants, religieux mêmes, planants et belliqueux, déchirés et déchirants. Tous les mots de ce maître de cérémonie installent au plus profond de nos âmes le voile du rêve pour immédiatement tisser à nouveau une nouvelle toile qui nous emmène dans une réalité différente, changeante, (é)mouvante, découvrir un monde réinventé, pour quelques instants, aussi longtemps que nous serons des auditeurs attentifs et conscients de notre volonté d’abandon.
Voyez l'immense espace de ses bras étreindre l'univers.
Alain BASHUNG n’est pas le dernier des géants, c’est le seul.