Daniel Lavoie: 'Live au divan vert'

 Club-Culture, Louis Michon
1997

Don't go looking for the "Divan vert", it's not a concert hall, "live", you are not listening to a performance with the audience clapping. So what is this album "Live au divan vert"?

This collection of 12 items gathered from Daniel's greatest hits is the highlight of a group of friends who passed the time and the days together during the tour "Ici" and who decided at the end of the tour to give one last performance, but this time in a studio rather than on stage.

On listening, one realises what fun they had in making this recording of Daniel's greatest hits. It didn't sound as if they had used "voice-over", it was recorded live. This then is the charm and the rapport which gives "Live au Divan vert" its warmth and atmosphere on CD.

The big hits of Daniel Lavoie are Où la route mène, Ils s'aiment, Tension Attention, Je voudrais voir New York, Jours de plaine etc and four unpublished songs of which the Blues du Businessman by Plamondon-Berger in a new interpretation, disconcerting at the start, but finely tuned right down to the last note. A live show for us alone. And the bonus, Carmen, a licentious poem by Théophile Gautier set to music by Daniel Lavoie.

There's no need to make a personal mix on a Walkman of the best pieces of Daniel Lavoie, they are now engraved by a laser on CD.

 

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