Category: Music

Francis Cabrel signs “Un gramme de terre”, an unpublished song for 10 voices

Le chanteur dévoile, ce jeudi 18 septembre, un tout nouveau morceau mélangeant différentes langues régionales dans le cadre d’un documentaire qui leur est consacré.

The singer is releasing a brand new track this Thursday, September 18, mixing different regional languages ​​as part of a documentary dedicated to them.

Invested in the defense of regional languages, as evidenced by the multilingual show he initiated in 2022 in his town of Astaffort (Lot-et-Garonne), Francis Cabrel appears in the credits of the documentary “Une langue en plus” soon to be broadcast on France TV.

An original creation and a documentary that tells the story

For the occasion, the author of “La corrida” wrote a new song entitled “Un gramme de terre”, which has the particularity of bringing together, around Francis Cabrel, 9 artists singing in their regional language. So many voices that resonate Basque, Breton, Occitan, Catalan, Creole, Corsican, Alsatian through the artists: Pantxix Bidart, Bleunwenn, Agathe Catel, Edwàr, Pauline Junquet, Liza l’Occitane, Valérie Louri, Primaël Montgauzí, Elisa Tramoni, the majority of whom come from the Rencontres d’Astaffort launched in 1994 by Francis Cabrel.

 

“I found that the idea of ​​this little seed that manages despite the difficulties of producing new ones so that the story continues, is a beautiful image to talk about these languages ​​that we do not want to recognize, but which refuse to disappear thanks to so many beautiful initiatives” , comments Francis Cabrel about this new song.

A musical creation whose creation with 10 voices will be recounted in the documentary “Un gramme de Terre, au Jardin de Francis”, which will follow that of “Une langue en plus”, broadcast on September 24 on France Télévisions.

Source: Francis Cabrel signs “Un gramme de terre”, an unpublished song for 10 voices

Listen to “The French Connection” Ep. 9

This Sunday’s FRENCH CONNECTION on WRIU 90.3 FM may be the last

( This program originally aired on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM on Sunday, August 31, 2025 )

THE FRENCH CONNECTION:: WRIU 90.3 FM :: August 31, 2025:
  • Francis Cabrel “Quin l’esquimau” (Bob Dylan)
  • Jeanne Cherhal “Super 8″
  • Rodolphe Burger “Stephanie Says” (Lou Reed)
  • Jain “Come” (2017)
  • Jain “Makeba” (2017)
  • Liz & Lisa “Fais Do Do”
  • Pomme “Ceux qui Revent
  • Pierre Bensusan “Le Lendemain de la Fete”
  • Léo Ferré “Je t’dore a Legal” (Ferre/Baudelaire)
  • Léo Ferré “Le Vampire” (Ferre/Baudelaire)
  • George Brassens “Puisque Vous Partez en Voyage” (Jean Sablon)
  • Asleep at the Wheel “Friendship First” (Brassens)
  • Francis Cabrel “Je t’amais, Je t’aime, Je t’aimerai”
  • Pierre Bensusan “So Long Michael”
  • Edith Piaf “Je Ne Regrette Rien”

Listen to “The French Connection” Ep. 8

This Sunday’s FRENCH CONNECTION on WRIU 90.3 FM mourns the end of Summer with a theme, “Seasons in the Sun”

By Michael Stevenson

( This program originally aired on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM on Sunday, August 24 )

“Seasons in the Sun” playlist, THE FRENCH CONNECTION :: WRIU 90.3 FM :: August 24, 2025:
  • Gilbert Bécaud “Plein Soleil” (1964)
  • Brigitte Bardot “La Madrague” (1963)
  • Yael Naem “Playground Family / You Have Always Been” (from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Mon Bébé)  2019
  • Jeanne Cherhal “Canicule” (2006)
  • Françoise Hardy “Soleil” (1970)
  • Toots Thielmans “Theme From Summer of ’42” (M. Legrand) rec. 1987 live concert
  • Yves Montand “Les Feuilles Mortes” (m.Jacques Prévert, l.Joseph Kosma) lyrics for “The Autumn Leaves” by Johnny Mercer (recorded 1952)
  • This Is the Kit “Recommencer” (Kate Stables, 2021)
  • Henri Salvador “Jardin d’Hiver” (Henri Salvador, Keren Ann & Benjamin Biolay, 2000)
  • Django Rheinhardt & the Quintet of the Hot Club of France “September Song” (m.Kurt Weil, l.Maxwell Anderson) recorded 1947
  • Blossom Dearie “It Might As Well Be Spring” (Rogers & Hammerstein, recorded 1957)
  • Jack Kerouac “October” (reading)
  • Francis Cabrel “Octobre” (1994)
  • Black Box Recorder “Seasons in the Sun” (Jacques Brel, recorded 1998)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns “Carnival of the Animals” (composed 1886)

I Tell You It Is October!
by Jack Kerouac

There’s something olden and golden and lost
In the strange ancestral light,
There’s something tender and loving and sad
In October’s copper might.

End of something, old, old, old…
Always missing, sad, sad, sad…
Saying something…love, love, love…

Akh! I tell you it is October,
And I defy you now and always
To deny there is not love

Staring foolishly at skies
Whose beauty but God defies.

For in October’s ancient glow
A little after dusk
Love strides through the meadow
Dropping her burnished husk…

“I Tell You It Is October” appears in Jack Kerouac Collected Poems, published by The Library of America in 2012