Après
| Après | ||||
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| Studio album by Iggy Pop | ||||
| Released | 9 May 2012 | |||
| Recorded | February 2010 – June 2011 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 28:33 | |||
| Label | Thousand Mile Inc | |||
| Producer | Hal Cragin | |||
| Iggy Pop chronology | ||||
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Après is the seventeenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop.
Background
Consisting partly of covers sung in French,[2] it was released on 9 May 2012 on Thousand Mile Inc[3] after the album was rejected by Virgin EMI Records. Pop said his record company would have 'preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks' and that "They didn't think they would make any money, they didn't think my fans would like it - very sensible attitudes for a sensible sort of person - but that's a different sort of person than I am."[4]
The album has been described as containing ″crooning vocals, Cole Porter covers, soft melodies, and an all-around sense of everything suave″.[5]
When asked by Bill Flanagan if he had heard any good records lately, Bob Dylan mentioned Après.[6]
The cover photo is referring to the figure La Conscience played by Iggy Pop in the French movie L'Étoile du jour (Morning Star) by Sophie Blondy.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Et si tu n'existais pas" | Vito Pallavicini, Toto Cutugno, Pasquale Losito, Pierre Delanoë, Claude Lemesie | Joe Dassin | 3:36 |
| 2. | "La Javanaise" | Serge Gainsbourg | Serge Gainsbourg | 2:33 |
| 3. | "Everybody's Talkin'" | Fred Neil | Fred Neil | 2:51 |
| 4. | "I'm Going Away Smiling" | Yoko Ono | Yoko Ono | 2:40 |
| 5. | "La Vie en rose" | Louis Guglielmi, Édith Piaf | Édith Piaf | 2:09 |
| 6. | "Les Passantes" | Antoine Pol, Georges Brassens | Georges Brassens | 4:12 |
| 7. | "Syracuse" | Bernard Dimey | Henri Salvador | 2:06 |
| 8. | "What Is This Thing Called Love?" | Cole Porter | Cole Porter | 2:51 |
| 9. | "Michelle" | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 2:45 |
| 10. | "Only the Lonely" | Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen | Frank Sinatra | 2:51 |
Personnel[7]
- Iggy Pop - vocals
- Hal Cragin - guitar (tracks 1-9), bass guitar, piano (tracks 3-5, 7, 8), vocals (track 9)
- Steven Ulrich - electric guitar (tracks 1, 2)
- Danny Blume - acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2), electric guitar (track 9)
- Jerry Zaslavsky - organ (tracks 1, 2)
- Jon Cowherd - piano (track 10)
- Ben Perowsky (tracks 5, 9), Jerry Marotta (tracks 4, 7), Kevin Hupp (tracks 1-3) - drums, percussion
- Jainardo Batista - percussion (tracks 1, 2)
- Aaron Halva - tres (tracks 1, 2)
- Lucie Aimé (tracks 1, 5), Sarah Fimm (tracks 1, 2, 9) - backing vocals
- Tim Ouimette - horn arrangements (tracks 5, 8), horns (track 5), trombone (track 8)
- Lulu Gainsbourg - horn arrangement (track 2)
- Technical
- Hal Cragin - producer, engineer, mixing
- Andy Tommasi - additional production, engineer
- Guillaume le Grontec, Sophie Blondy - photography
References
- ↑ "Iggy Pop – Après".
- ↑ "Iggy Pop Announces Album of Mostly French Covers". RollingStone.com. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ↑ Jaroslav Špulák (25 April 2012). "Iggy Pop vydá album s coververzemi". Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ↑ "Iggy Pop album shuns 'humiliating' record labels". The Telegraph. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ↑ Maren McGlashan (22 June 2012). "Iggy Pop: Après Album Review". louderthanwar.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ↑ https://www.bobdylan.com/news/qa-with-bill-flanagan/
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Iggy-Pop-Apr%C3%A8s/release/3713350
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