Carla Bruni - Comme si de rien n’était (As If Nothing Happened)

4 months ago 16th Jul 15:02

Released 14 July

Many of the words focus on the sensation of passing time (My Youth, Passing Time, The Antelope). A melancholy tone offsets the lyrics’ playful side, lending this album a nice balance. “I’m sombre and rather playful myself”, Bruni happily concedes. “I delight in despair”.

In addition to the 10 original compositions penned by the songwriter, the album includes a musical adaptation of a poem by French author Michel Houellebecq called La Possibilité d’une Ile, a transcription of a Lied by German composer Robert Schumann on Je suis un enfant (I'm a child) and two songs in a foreign language: You Belong to Me, an American classic popularized by Dylan, and Il Vecchio e Il Bambino by Italian anarchist Francesco Guccini. “English and Italian are ideal languages for singing”, says Bruni, “but French is ideal for writing”.

Back to page 1