Poetry from in-between two worlds, carried by a light breeze riding the trail of torments. Rustle seeking madness. A voice at the core of the unsoundable... love that sails, escapes, humbly disappears in the face of poets. Pierre-Michel, farther, or even closer to Here, yet a simple passerby... Will you hear him? Christian Vander - August 15 2008, 10:45pm Translated by Marie-Noëlle Dana   Penetrating songs by Pierre-Michel Sivadier. Half-heartedly, they hustle as Chet Baker would. With a gentle touch, they sound right, far from superfluous things. In the tactile smoothness of voices and insisting emotions. Exactly what you like to hear from today and tomorrow songwriters : may they never leave you. (Alex Dutihl) In an other world or in other times, « Lavandières » would be on every lips, enchanting France with its melodic grace, its simple and mysterious words : "O saintes lavandières / Faites que tout se passe / Comme aux portes d'hier / Faites qu'elle m'embrasse / Et m'emporte à demain / Qu'à l'insu des misères / Me donne rendez-vous / Rue des Lavandières / Sainte Opportune..." Here and now, you listen to « Lavandières » in an exalted loneliness, between joy and sadness, with your heart suddenly washed and your body pacified. How many songs like this one, on the verge of tears and so close to a prayer ? (Jérôme Reybaud) Translation by Denis Desassis

1 - Rue Francoeur (P.M.Sivadier) (3:29) 2 - Si tu t'aventures (P.M.Sivadier) (3:27) 3 - Cinq croches (P.M.Sivadier) (1:07) 4 - Je t'aime et tu le sais (P.M.Sivadier) (3:25) 5 - Follement doux (L.Macé / P.M.Sivadier) (3:12) 6 - Je n'aurai de cesse (P.M.Sivadier) (3:48) 7 - En sommeil (C.Caussimon / P.M.Sivadier) (2:32) 8 - Interlude (P.M.Sivadier) (1:25) 9 - Marins (P.M.Sivadier) (4:33) 10 - Lavandières (P.M.Sivadier) (2:28) 11 - Le coeur à l'envers (C.Dubois / P.M.Sivadier) (2:12) 12 - Mélodie en Sol (P.M.Sivadier) (2:27) 13 - Le monde qui s'étire (C.Caussimon / P.M.Sivadier) (4:20) 14 - Valse en Fa mineur (P.M.Sivadier) (2:28) 15 - Vingt (P.M.Sivadier) (3:43 Listen to an extract (Lavandières)

Pierre-Michel Sivadier : voice, piano Valentine Duteil : cello, voice on "Marins" Stella Vander : voice Arrangements : P.M.Sivadier Recorded and mixed byFrancis Linon Produced by Stella Vander and Francis Linon

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