Les Brünettes

Their new album A Women Thing is a tribute to strong, creative and sensual women. The result is a fascinating double portrait that sketches both Les Brünettes as composers and arrangers and those who inspire them in their work. Musicians who have lent a face to entire generations with their songs, outstanding singers, but also women whose life stories are unique and who paved the way for subsequent female artists.
You can hear how well the singers know each other by now: every voice has its importance, pauses work just as well as dynamic climaxes. The musical originals lose none of their original radiance, but in their new guise they reveal previously unheard facets. Piaf's march L'Homme a La Moto becomes a light-footed swinging wink, Nena's 99 Luftballons gains sharpness through aggression, the world music piece My Heart by Liza Wright gains groove through a pinch of R'n'B and the rather bluesy Nina Simone classic Sea Line Woman gains coolness, Joni Mitchell's folk song A Case Of You shines in an almost sacred chamber music version.
When singing, the four singers fully exploit their vocal potential: They soul, scat and conjure. Their voices sound like a string quartet or rattle like an old engine. They scream, run away, argue, breathe, whoop and laugh. The use of the vocal possibilities nevertheless remains natural and in the service of the song. Since their debut in 2012, Les Brünettes have developed a more mature sound concept that brings the vocal interplay together in an even more colorful and fast-paced way, and in their own compositions they let those parts of their personalities shine through that make you want to hear more from these four young artists. It's time to prick up your ears again. Curtain up...

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