Gabi Hartmann – La femme aux yeux de sel (2025) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Gabi Hartmann – La femme aux yeux de sel (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:32 minutes | 523 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
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Gabi Hartmann is the atypical universe of an artist who blurs the styles between pop, folk, jazz, soul and world. She sings what inspires her in several languages, escaping the categories. She knew how to impose her own style, but also her ambiguous emotion: a voice with a warm and clear timbre, at the same time soft, melancholic and soothing. Her eponymous debut album, released in 2023, has been listened to more than twenty million times and sold more than 15,000 copies (the best Jazz /World sale in France of the year) and earned her the Gold Disk Award for the best new international artist in Japan, as well as great distinctions in the French and world press, and chains several sold-out dates (at the Francofolies in La Rochelle, at the Seine Musicale and at La Cigale). Today, Gabi is back with her second album entitled La femme aux yeux de sel. This album opens with a nursery rhyme that tells the story of a woman named Salinda, inhabitant of a dream island, whose salt eyes melt with each tear shed. To treat her eyes, she goes on a trip in search of the secrets of salt. Would the album be the little mirror of this tale? Gabi discovers herself there and grows through the songs, getting to know herself by questioning both the world around her and her inner world, just like her experiences of life as a woman. She tells above all about her emotions: the joy of her travels and the difficulty of opening up to others, the melancholy that awaits her, the anger in front of a sick world, the suffering, the anguish, then the wonder of nature that heals her. She draws her inspiration from female artists: Salinda is inspired by the Island Rumba from Marguerite Duras’ film India Song, (composed and arranged with Oan Kim). She pays tribute to Latin American music and in particular to female voices such as those of Mercedes Sosa, but also of the South African singer Miriam Makeba who has inspired her for years. Finally, this album is the result of beautiful collaborations both old (Oan Kim and Jesse Harris) and new: we can hear the Syrian flutist Naïssam Jalal on the track Le sunrise, questioning the state of the world. This piece, like Love High and Your secret World, was composed and realized with the saxophonist and composer Laurent Bardainne (who collaborated with Camélia Jordana, Jeanne Added and November Ultra). We can also recognize the creation of Baptiste Trotignon, with whom she composes the piece Melancholie, magnified by the emotion and elegance of the string arrangements of the Brazilian composer Maycon Ananias. With her latent melancholy and her universe rich in colors and rhythms, Gabi gradually makes the boundaries between eras and styles porous to write a dreamlike world of her own. This is the secret of this multifaceted personal record, demanding and accessible in the same breath.Two years after her breakthrough with a refreshing and inventive debut album that blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop, French chanson and world music, young French singer Gabi Hartmann’s unique talents are confirmed in La Femme Aux Yeux De Sel, a work as ambitious as it is captivating. Conceived as a story of initiation, the album’s fourteen tracks, organized into three chapters, recount the intimate and subtly disenchanted odyssey of Salinda, a young woman with salt eyes who passes from innocence to serenity through the ordeal of disillusionment. Working in close collaboration with three musician-producers, each with highly assertive and perfectly complementary aesthetic biases (New York guitarist and songwriter Jesse Harris, who was at helm of her previous album; French-Korean saxophonist and singer Oan Kim, a long-standing companion; and saxophonist and producer Laurent Bardainne, a newcomer to her nebula), Hartmann unfolds her heroine’s tale in a series of gentle, elegant and insidiously nostalgic songs.

Jumping effortlessly from one language to another (French, English and Spanish), the singer immerses her clear and caressing voice into sophisticated arrangements that combine cottony synthesizers, tangy backing vocals, floating strings and voluptuous saxophones. Surrounded by a team of top tier musicians (including Arnaud Roulin and Florian Robin on keyboards, Sylvain Daniel on bass, Abdoulaye Kouyaté on guitar and special guests flutist Naïssam Jalal and singer Julia Johansen from The Oracle Sisters), she reveals the thousand and one dimensions of her hybrid, dreamlike poetic universe, alternating cinematic songs with exotic, far-fetched atmospheres (“Fool’s Paradise,” “Take a Swing at the Moon”), jazz-tinged pop ballads (“Into My World”) with traditional Creole, African or Latin American inspired melodies (“Sikolaiko,” and “La Pomena” by Argentine composer Gustavo Leguizamon). Above all, she achieves this with expressive originality and a subtle sense of drama. – Stéphane Ollivier

Tracklist:

1-1. Gabi Hartmann – Salinda, la fille aux yeux de sel (03:38)
1-2. Gabi Hartmann – Love High (04:21)
1-3. Gabi Hartmann – Sikolaiko (03:10)
1-4. Gabi Hartmann – Into My World (02:52)
1-5. Gabi Hartmann – Ton monde secret (03:56)
1-6. Gabi Hartmann – Fool’s Paradise (03:51)
1-7. Gabi Hartmann – Take a Swing at the Moon (03:40)
1-8. Gabi Hartmann – La Pomena (04:01)
1-9. Gabi Hartmann – Melancolie (04:26)
1-10. Gabi Hartmann – Le lever du soleil (05:56)
1-11. Gabi Hartmann – Natureza (03:52)
1-12. Gabi Hartmann – Lakutshon’ Ilanga (02:12)
1-13. Gabi Hartmann – Drink the Ocean (03:52)
1-14. Gabi Hartmann – Fin (00:39)

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