À LA FRANÇAISE Hiba Tawaji & Ibrahim Maalouf

• 1 La bohème 04:37
• 2 Fais-moi une place 03:47
• 3 La javanaise 04:06
• 4 Les mots bleus 04:28
• 5 Jardin d'hiver 03:39
• 6 Paradis blanc 04:25
• 7 Que je t'aime 04:13
• 8 Si seulement je pouvais lui manquer 04:35
• 9 Tous les bateaux, tous les oiseaux 04:59
• 10 Je t'aimais, je t'aime, je t'aimerai 05:27
• 11 Toulouse 05:32
• Total Runtime 49:48

Info for À LA FRANÇAISE

A declaration of love for French chanson: Hiba Tawaji and Ibrahim Maalouf pay a vibrant tribute to French chanson with the release of their first joint album: À LA FRANÇAISE.

A journey to the heart of French chanson, reimagined through their unique artistic worlds and their bond as a couple.

Featuring the Republican Guard Orchestra and a jazz quintet, À LA FRANÇAISE is an elegant and refined tribute, at the crossroads of classical music, jazz and Eastern influences.

The album perfectly and sincerely captures the duo’s familial and artistic bond, driven by a shared emotion and the desire to share an essential part of their story with the audience.

With this album, the two artists unveil a project that is both intimate and masterful, conceived as a dialogue between two musical legacies and two complementary artistic sensibilities.

The repertoire brings together great classics of French chanson — Que je t’aime, La Bohème, Fais-moi une place —, treated with the respect due to the original works, whilst offering a reinterpretation that is both grandiose and cinematic.

Hiba Tawaji’s magnificent voice, powerful yet imbued with rare sensitivity, elevates these songs through a profound and luminous performance, revealing their full emotional depth with infinite delicacy, whilst Ibrahim Maalouf’s arrangements bring out further nuances, blending orchestral grandeur, jazz-inspired freedom and Eastern resonances.

Listening to this album, I think that, indeed, one realises that a song like ‘La Bohème’ — a French song, composed, lived and performed all over the world by a Frenchman of Armenian origin, which speaks of the bohemian lifestyle, that is to say, of that vibrant, nomadic side of life, of those travellers —, is, in fact, what France is all about, that is the Francophonie [and] that is what we want to defend too; it’s about saying ‘we are so much more than just our origins’.

Hiba Tawaji, vocals
Ibrahim Maalouf, trumpet

Hiba Tawaji
A true coloratura soprano, the Lebanese singer Hiba Tawaji was born on 10 December 1987. Trilingual, she sings in Arabic, French and English and is equally at home in opera, Middle Eastern pop and jazz. Spotted by the producer and composer Oussama Rahbani, she took part in his show Le Retour du Phénix in 2008. Continuing to work with her mentor, Hiba Tawaji released the albums La Bidayi Wala Nihayi (2011) and Ya Habibi (2014). In January 2015, Hiba Tawaji made her debut in France by taking part in the auditions for The Voice, la plus belle voix. Her masterful rendition of Michel Legrand’s song ‘Les Moulins de mon coeur’ convinced Mika to recruit her for his team.

A true coloratura soprano, the Lebanese singer Hiba Tawaji was born on 10 December 1987. Trilingual, she sings in Arabic, French and English and is equally at home in opera, Middle Eastern pop and jazz. Spotted by the producer and composer Oussama Rahbani, she took part in his 2008 show Le Retour du Phénix. Continuing to work with her mentor, Hiba Tawaji released the albums La Bidayi Wala Nihayi (2011) and Ya Habibi (2014). In January 2015, Hiba Tawaji made her debut in France by taking part in the auditions for The Voice, la plus belle voix. Her masterful rendition of Michel Legrand’s song ‘Les Moulins de mon coeur’ convinced Mika to recruit her for his team.

Ibrahim Maalouf
is also one of the most popular instruments in the French musical scene. Son travail de métissage des genres est reconnu partout dans le monde depuis plus de 10 ans.

Remplissant the Volkswagen Arena d'Istanbul, faisant of the concerts sold out at Lincoln Jazz Center de New York, and voyageant à travers plus de 40 pays dans le monde ces 10 dernières années, the devient the premier jazzman of the histoire à remplir la plus grande salle de concert de France. In effect, Ibrahim made a historical show on December 14, 2016, which was completed in 8 months after the AccorHotels Arena de Paris Bercy.

Quelques mois plus tard, Ibrahim crée la surprise. Qualified as a “virtuoso” by the New York Times, he produced an exceptional concert in collaboration with The New Levant Initiative, at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, for the creation of the world-famous album “Levantine Symphony No.1”.

Ibrahim est récompensé par 2 « Victoires du Jazz » ainsi que 2 « Victoires de la Musique » (“Album Musique du monde” et “Concert ou tournée de l’année” qui par ailleurs sont les premières récompenses des victoires de la musique décernées à un instrumentiste depuis leur création il y a plus de 33 years gouvernement français.

Adolescent, Ibrahim arrives at the top international competitions in the world and debuts in a classy career as a soloist, starting in the 2000s, repertoire for his coloring ability in improvisational music, which is incomprehensible in pop, jazz and in dance The domain of the music of the world. Sting, Salif Keita, Amadou & Mariam, Tryo, Matthieu Chédid, Lhasa de Sela and the names of artists de styles très variés font appel à lui.

Between 2007 and 2019, Ibrahim produced, composed, arranged and realized plus 15 albums for lui and for other artists. The composition also includes 10 œuvres symphoniques, which is a quinzaine de musiques de longs métrages.

Repéré by the mythical producer Quincy Jones during a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2017, Ibrahim devient the artistes that the American producer encourages régulièrement via the Quincy Jones Productions based in Los Angeles.

In 2019, Ibrahim signed the original bands of 3 films dont « Celle Que Vous Croyez » de Safy Nebbou with Juliette Binoche, véritable success à l'international puis il part en tournée d'été à travers la France with the Balkan fanfare Haïdouti Orkestar.

Ibrahim released his 11th studio album « S3NS » in September 2019 and produced it on this occasion in the Olympia (Paris) on September 23rd, 24th and 25th with a tour of the world. Parallèlement Ibrahim enseigne the trompette and l'improvisation in the conservatoires depuis 1999. Il a été plusieurs fois invité by ITG (International Trumpet Guild) aux Etats Unis pour des concerts et master classes, and développe depuis plusieurs années une pedagogie spécifique à l’enseignement de l’improvisation musicale classique au sein des conservatoires français.

Sa dernière collaboration pedagogique remonte à l'automne 2019 où tous les jeunes élèves de l'association Orchestra à l'Ecole composée de plusieurs milliers d'orchestres à travers la France ont rejoint Ibrahim à tous ses concerts en Zenith afin de monter sur scène pour The premiere of the song, with accompanist Ibrahim and his music on the composition “Happy Face”.

In parallel, Ibrahim composes, performs and records the totality of the music of the spectacle "Monsieur Spectacle that remembers the Molière of the best of his life in the 2020 anniversary scene.

Plus, on his label Mister Ibé, Ibrahim produced the premier album of Thais Lona, singer emerging from the music Pop-RnB.

The 7th edition of the “Concours International de Trompette Maurice André” will be held again in November 2020. This historical competition is renowned for its renown in the 70th year of the world's most famous trompettins, plus it was organized in 14 years.

On the occasion of November 2020, during the 40th anniversary celebration, Ibrahim sorted out a new album "40 MELODIES" and premiered it, the duo with François Delporte on the second guitar plus 10 years, with the same name invitations surprise.

This album contains no booklet.