Simple I - the Bercy integral

Simple I - the integral Bercy is an album live of France Gall recorded with the general sports Palais of Paris-Bercy in 1993, gathering 2 volumes ( Débranchée and Rebranchée in Bercy ), and published in 1994. Each volume was sold with more than 200.000 specimens.

Note of France Gall - In a little more than two years, of New Morning with Pleyel while passing by Bercy, a chapter opened, filled and closed again. Another started. I wanted that on this double album the first sentences of these chapters are reproduced: Never to leave that Michel and me sang for our friends in New Morning in June 1992 and Princes the cities recorded in Pleyel in September 1994 and mixed in Paisley Park in October. To all those which accompanied me and supported up to now I would please say I Coils You . And to you who listen to the music of Michel, I say See You Soon .

Titles

MINOR ROAD 1 - Total duration 61:47

Débranche 8:17
the Declaration of love 5:29
Some words of love 4:11
Chanter for those which are far from on their premises 4:15
If, mom, if 5:25
It is difficult to be a man also 2:59
I need you 3:36
It played upright of the piano 4:38
the Minute of silence 4:43
Tout for the music 3:41
Miss Chang 8:18
Jamais to leave (in duet with Michel Berger with the New Morning) 5:55

MINOR ROAD 2 - Total duration 62:49

Let pass the dreams 5:42
Bats 5:22
the white Paradise 5:04
Cézanne painted 6:42
the Dashes of the heart 6:30
Superficiel and light 5:47
Évidemment 4:54
the Song of the fair Negress 3:44
Ella, it has it 7:19
Jamais to leave 6:25
the Princes the cities (recorded with Pleyel, “Master Mix” by Ricky Peterson) 5:20

Appropriations

Songs

Words and music: Michel Berger

Musicians and other artists

Guitar: Denys Lable
additional Guitar: Isabelle All Saints' day for Never to leave recorded to the New Morning (MINOR ROAD 1-12)
Battery: Claude Salmieri
Keyboards: Serge Perathoner

additional Keyboard: Michel Berger for Never to leave recorded to the New Morning (MINOR ROAD 1-12)

Low: Jannick Signal
Bandonion: Per Arne Glorvigen
Choruses: Leila Rami
additional Choruses:

the rappeurs of association Established among for Miss Chang , the Song of the fair Negress , Ella, it has it
Mimi Felexine and Peter Lorne for Jamais to leave recorded to the New Morning (MINOR ROAD 1-12)

For the Princes the cities (Remix Paisley Park or “Master Mix”):

Keyboards: Low Ricky Peterson, Jean-Yves d' Angelo
: Ricky Peterson
Guitars: Paul Peterson, David Rhodos
Guitar tech: Zeke Clarck
Battery: Michael Bland
Choruses: Ricky Peterson, Rick Barron, Leila Rami, Gosbos (Thierry and Renaud Bidjeck)

Production of the spectacle

France Gall: I asked each person who works with me to give me something that it had never given before to anybody. Something for me.
Representations 10,11,12 and 22, September 23rd, 24th and th 1993 with the general sports Palais of Paris-Bercy
Producteur: Gilbert Coullier for Gilbert Coullier Organization
Put in scene: France Gall and Herve Lebeau
Assistant put in scene: Corinne Barcessat
With the participation of the rappeurs of association Established among for Miss Chang , the Song of the fair Negress , Ella, it has it
Décor: Jean Haas
Costume: Jean-Paul Scarpitta
Lightings: Jacques Rouveyrollis
general Manager: Stephan Stuck
Sonorisation room: Yves Jaget
Sonorisateur return: Alain Leduc

The album

Produces by France Gall and The MB School (pronounce “Ze likes Bi skoulle”): Denys Lable, Serge Perathoner, Claude Salmieri, Jannick Signal
Recorded in September 1993 by Laurent Gatignol and Yves Jaget with the mobile studio the Traveller and mixed by Frank Filipetti except:

Never to leave , title MINOR ROAD 1-12, recorded the June 22nd 1992 by Yves Jaget with the New Morning of Paris
Princes of the cities, MINOR ROAD 2-11, recorded in September 1994 with the Room Pleyel by Manu Guiot and Bruno Sourice, “Master Mix” product by Ricky Peterson and mixed by Tom Tucker in October 1994 in Paisley Park Studios of Mineapolis (Minnesota)

Editors:

Editions Apache France : Disconnects , Some words of love , Chanter for those which are far from on their premises , If, mom, if , It is difficult to be a man also , I require for you , It played of the piano upright, the Minute of silence , Tout for the music , Miss Chang , Cézanne painted , Superficiel and light , Évidemment , Ella, she has it , the Princes of the cities
Éditions CMBM : Let pass the dreams , Bats , the white Paradise , the Dashes of the heart , the Song of the fair Negress , Jamais to leave
Éditions Sidonie/Apache France : the Declaration of love

Album published the Double November 18th 1994
CD Apache 4509-98489-2
Photography small pocket: Jean-Marie Périer
Graphics small pocket: Harms of China

Around the album

the star of Shepherd lights Bercy - the sound engineers speak : Under the control of Yves Jaget, the sound diffusion was the search object for original multicasting of “structure of range”, using many known products of the range of diffusers general public of the manufacturer Meyer Sound, but also of the innovations of this manufacturer: DS2, USM, MSL2, even of the prototypes like MSL5.
Yves Jaget : The multicasting constitutes the future of the diffusion in spectacle. Increasingly powerful tools are at the disposal of the technicians to implement this new manner of working.
Sound system Magazine : What determined you to create this structure of diffusion completely hung in range?
Yves Jaget : A constraint in the situation of the enclosures had been imposed by the producer. Not only one was not to appear in the field of the spectator. Then, I estimate that the comfort of listening passes by a good distribution of sound energy on the whole of the public. To obtain this balanced distribution, the diffusion is thus presented in the form of a propagation in range with broad choice of enclosures and very studied filterings, so as to adapt to just each enclosure, with requirements in dispersion, equalization and sound images different according to the situation from the spectators.
Bercy is not a room in perfect amphitheater, but a kind of rectangle which creates very different distances from dispersion according to the situation in the room. It was thus necessary to take account of this constraint while starting by distorting these concentric circles and then by modifying the number and the types of enclosures to find the output best adapted.
Les voice of France and that of the chorus-singer is compressed by a very sophisticated apparatus: the DPR 901 BSS. It enables me to carry out the compressions very sophisticated on this show, inter alia.
Sur scene, its amplifier is useful to me especially when Jannick makes use of sound octaver, its modulation HF arrives to me pure. Another, worked by the pedals of effects Jannick is taken again by the amplifier. I mix the whole in different proportions according to the titles. That enables me to proportion the important use that made Jannick of its octavers, without inevitably taking again totality of it. It there as that a sound which is personal for him and another sound which I pass by again in the diffusion. M 422 are used for the recovery on line of the Fender amplifiers of the guitarist Denys Lable, except for the acoustic part of the show where the sound is taken again on line. Our difficulty, on the battery of Claude Salmieri, especially was to carry out positionings of microphones adapted to very reduced spaces. Claude plays indeed with a set of battery “very flat” and spaces it between toms and cymbals is seriously reduced. The voice of France east taken again by a body of micro static HF SEM 700 from which the capsule can be different according to the needs. Statics is justified by the fact that the level of voice of France is not embanking, and that this microphone combines a very balanced band-width.
Sound system Magazine : The spectacle of France Gall, returned after a few years of scenic absence, articulated in two great parts, one electric, other acoustics, for a Best off of the more beautiful songs, Cézanne painted , offered by Michel Berger to his wife and of the compositions which he itself sang, white Paradis . The group of the rappeurs Established among in recall to say and repeat, if it of it were need, that in the Shepherd, one does not have too the fiber pasquaienne.
Un together of musicians reduced to his more strict need: synthé piano/, battery, low and guitar. But with musicians of this hardening, not is not need for instrumental higher bid. That sounds emblée.
Le technical choice of a multicasting proved to be paying insofar as one wanted that France Gall occurs in a room as immense as Bercy, while playing the chart of the musical intimacy. The voice of France, in spite of very dense orchestral arrangements (synthés of Serge Perathoner, in particular) arose with firmness, but without aggressiveness, which would have been catastrophic, aesthetically parlant.
Je will be less enthusiastic on the scenic decoration which appeared disproportionate compared to the size of the group and the fixity of this one. As for the design of lightings, it was perhaps deliberately selected neutral and discrete… or imagination was lacking. Too bad!

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