ZAZ- France has a new star in the music heaven

When the French singer ZAZ has her song "Je veux added," she will have no idea what success would bring her this song. In addition to nine weeks number 1 in the French album charts, there was also the top-ranking positions in Belgium, Switzerland and Austria. The peculiarity of ZAZ is that it has not relied solely on her exceptional voice. My main interest is the absolute quality of the songs. And convincing across the board! She also places great emphasis on live performances. Despite strong cold, she appeared before short only in a program, but of playback keeps the sympathetic Frenchwoman nothing.

Isabelle Geffroy, so Zaz 'real name, came out of nowhere here, from a street in Montmartre in Paris. For exposures in Siberia, in the Maghreb and in Central America she met the local genre that she created a room for their future songwriting. Only logical that since then is their claim, cosmopolitan or - to paraphrase Lennon Write - to be a "Nowhere Girl".

On their current eponymous album "Zaz", it covers almost all styles of off Swing, Gypsy, scat, jazz and pop can be found on the album. All harmonic and epic arguments on this record speak for the thirty year old singer.

"Je Veux", their first single and blueprint for Zaz 'song understanding, is the central part of the album - the "Les Passants" announces with a chime and "Le Longe De La Route" concludes with accordion. The singer in this song proves to wear their hearts in the right place and to comprehend as amusement joy of freedom. Your vocal presentation is their right, the music is perfect to create out of the moment informality while designing a joinable in the singing chorus.

It provides jazz upside down, with her voice imitates instruments after, connects the units rather than letting each individually stand and sound of its own.

In other words, the music of Zaz is the coexistence between chanson and pop, between French tradition material and foremost Radio Music category. They do not even have to sound like Edith Piaf when she interpreted the Sacred "Dans Ma Rue" the Grande Dame.

Only in the last song it is Francophile and attracts a low appreciation of the hat to the oeuvre. "Eblouie Par La Nuit" presents itself as absolutely defined minimal music with two-strand tendencies.

It is evident that the singing is so far away in the sound patterns of the band, but not caught, developed its own still life, which one pays tribute alone or in musical context. It is precisely this characteristic makes the album a masterpiece.

After the French debut CD in May see some already some kind Piaf of the 2010s in the Mittzwanzigerin Isabelle Geoffroy. She already has some style behind - from blues to Latin rock - and is now for the first time their own language: a catchy combination of gypsy jazz and Piaf chanson. Indeed Geoffroy can provide their pretty girlish voice with a timbre. A sympathetic versatile, promising and quietschfidele woman, one should keep in mind absolutely.