BOUM !
« … Jacques Brel tries rap in a Michel Legrand mood as performed by John Shuttleworth under the influence of Charles Mingus, Brillant. »
Sunday Telegraph
EUROSTAR
The album was made in Paris @Artistic studio, produced by Jean-Marie Paras.
Never officially released. Album without a name but a big artwork made on the song Eurostar by the great Koshiro !
POP FRANCE
The album was recorded at the famous Pathway studio in London.
First album as a trio with some amazing guests, Steve Noble on drum, Kazuko Hoki on voice (and in Japanese!) Andy Pinayi on drum Seddik Zebiri on derbouka
BOUM!
A new edition of Pop France, mixed in Paris, Picture made by Chris Nash, fewer titles on this album, distributed by Socadisc.
“The best thing to escape France since De Gaulle! ”
Time Out
« Band leader and guitariste Gilles Mordant, a man capable of making a few hearts go Boum! himself. »
Pirate jenny’s
« … Jacques Brel tries rap in a Michel Legrand mood as performed by John Shuttleworth under the influence of Charles Mingus, Brillant. »
Sunday Telegraph
“Nos gaillards sont aussi doués pour l’émouvant que pour le désopilant. Répertoire gouteux, arrangement inventifs, entrain contagieux, on dit « bis » à Boum!”
Télérama
” I play music from around the world putting the latest releases side by side with the best music from the past fifty years. Every now and then I run across an artist or group which embodies the spirit of what I’m trying to achieive and one of the best I have heard in 1996 has been Boum!
Charlie Gillett – BBC GLR
” …A terrific live band that combine a real feel for the breath of the French chanson with an anarchic, stylish stage show that never lets the audience escape for a moment ..”
David Jones – Serious
” A force d’entendre dire que la chanson française ne peut passer les frontières, on avait fini par le croire!!! Et puis…rencontre avec BOUM! et les certitudes s’effondrent, même le public anglo-saxon peut goûter nos refrains…. “
Alain Poulange – France Inter
” Quelle joie de rencontrer trois artistes avec tant de joie de vivre… J’ai souvent l’impression en les écoutant qu’il n y a jamais eu d’autres orchestrations, d’autres interprétations “
Alain Poulange – France Inter