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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quite simply,"Dans Ma Chair" is art..., October 21, 1998
By A Customer
Patricia Kaas' voice is incredible - as rich and expressive as a Stradivarius in the hands of a master like Salerno-Sonnenberg, Ferras, or Perlman. Her music is easy to imagine as the first permanent audio exhibit at The Louvre. "Les Lignes De Nos Mains" is a song that makes me break out in gooseflesh, instantly transporting me back to the hotel in Paris where I first saw its accompanying music video. This music is so utterly, refreshingly DIFFERENT from the dreck that's filled the airwaves of 90s America. A "can't go wrong" disc, as are her three previous studio releases.****** I was thrilled to discover the release of Kaas' second concert CD, "Rendez-vous Live 1998", with a label indicating the concurrent release of a video of the same concert. Will Amazon.com be selling the "Rendez-vous Live" video? I'll be the first customer in line should it become available here. The same goes for her first concert video "Tour de Charme" - currently only available transcoded at a high cost from a French video rental company.****** It's rumoured that Kaas' next studio release will be entirely in English. Musically and stylistically I hope this doesn't happen - in such a case I would hope an all-French version will be released in France, in the same way as Eros Ramazzotti's dual Italian/Spanish releases. But if it is in English I predict she'll be as much a household name in America as Basia or Celine Dion.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Deeply involving dignified melancholy -- emotional sweep!, July 17, 1999
By A Customer
This is one of the best pop albums I have ever heard. It is haunting from beginning to end (well, the duet is a bit of a letdown). Most of the songs seem to be made out of short melodic cells that she builds on with amazing clarity of expressive trajectory. The result is hypnotic. Lyrically very intense and sophisticated, even witty ("je conte jusqu'à toi"). That rare, French detachment is heartbreaking in places ("je me souviens de riens"), then comes a song so stark in its emotional nakedness ("je voudrais la connaître") that it's just terrifying -- a song like this would never be a hit in the U.S. yet hear its enthusiastic reception on her live "rendez-vous en concert" album. A lot of the songs were originally in English I believe (Lyle Lovett's "chanson simple," "je me souviens de riens," others) that the lyrical strength and natural utterance is astonishing. You would never imagine these flowed from anything other than a French pen. This is one of my favorite albums, possibly my favorite pop album ever. I still listen to it often two years later and give it to people I care about.I have translated all lyrics and would be glad to share them!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderfully diverse melodious CD, January 12, 2000
Kaas' best CD that I've heard yet, although I only have 2 others, "Scene de Vie" and "Le Mot de Passe." You're completely captivated from the first cut to the last, and there is quite a range of musical styles on this one--Kaas is at times a pop balladeer, and others, almost a torch singer, and then there's Kaas, la chanteuse. This CD possesses many lovely melodies, musical arrangements that cajole and surprise, and, of course, Kaas' sultry voice with its touch of vulnerability and toughness all at once, that goes directly to the soul. It also makes for wonderful driving music. Very highly recommended!
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