photo: 15/09/2017 Live report video of France2 TV on Sylvie Vartan at L'Olympia Paris.
(Sylvie Vartan in the video: at L'Olympia Hall, Paris 06/09/2017 per AFP)
poster of SYLVIE VARTAN A L'OLYMPIA PARIS 2017 "Forever Sylvie" (photo by Jean-Marie Perier)
Sylvie Vartan L'Olympia Paris 2017, for just two days? Now that's so short a period. Why not fire, inspire us once AGAIN in the FIRST place by the prospect of much longer longer days (say, seven days at least), instead of every time announcing unique or two-day Paris concert for the last six years. It's a mystery for me. Where in the world is the production's drive?
Today, we see little fervor, spirit or determination of her production. Then, how can they stir a large audience's great fervor? In view of such an awesome active long career of Sylvie Vartan, a rock singer with that husky voice - thrilling, beaming, wild, warm, graceful - and lots of dynamism and innate grace, who's always released albums and presented new LIVE concerts in Paris and then spent on the road worldwide ever since early 1960s, it's high time to absolutely let us marvel again at this adventurous and joyous Sylvie Vartan's best, tapping her potential.
She never stops going on farther, keeping the same innate charm. Her performance makes me happiest, marvelous "Sylvie Vartan In Person."
Sylvie Vartan A L'Olympia Paris 2017 is consisted of two (2) parts: 1st part dedicated to 1960s-1970s and 2nd part to 1980s-the present called "Forever Sylvie."
"Sylvie Vartan in Tokyo 2018" - I'm crossing my fingers that it will be absolutely at a traditional large concert hall, as she used to be until 2008; I wanna fully see and hear again the real Sylvie Vartan, her real strengths, what she is! I know I'm not the only one who's dreaming such reunion, hopefully at Orchard Hall, Shibuya, Tokyo.
I do hope she is ready to sing high notes (falsetto) as before in terms of "Irresistiblement," the dynamic hit tune of 1970 in Japan, for it is an ever-popular song especially since 2002 beyond generations. It would be perfectly fresh. Sylvie Vartan must have such an extraordinary ability besides limitless fascinatoin and capacity.
Recalling Sylvie Vartan in Tokyo 2008 (*) at Orchard Hall, of which set list included "Dans le souffle du vent" (cover of "Browin' In the Wind" in French). It struck my heart deeply. Sylvie sang with sad eyes sometimes during the concert since it was after her mother's demise (in the previous summer 2007), still her voice was truly richer than ever and singing soulful. We do see Sylvie Vartan's true worth in this way. I can just see in my mind's eye all the sublime scene where she sang this song (almost a cappella) in many shafts of blue light, as if she were singing in the rain or in the quiet forest or on the wide spread of prairie. Such a moving and vibrant Live Sylvie Vartan in Tokyo 2008.
(* Japanese major newspaper ASAHI's interview with Sylvie Vartan in Paris published on 14/3/2008, about two weeks before her coming to Japan. The article started with her words: I learned everyting about life from my mother.)
photo of the book from Sylvie Vartan Official Instagram.
Author : Benoit Cachin
Book title : "SYLVIE VARTAN La plus belle pour aller chanter"
Publisher : Grund
Publication date : 7 September 2017
size : 215 x 280 mm
Number of page : 288
It's not just another interview but a fresh and good interview to read. In the end, off the subject, Sylvie Vartan even says something humorous and witty revealing she likes "une tarte au citron" (lemon meringue pie), which she would like to have right away.
Just like Sylvie Vartan!
Marvelous Sylvie Vartan in person!
In superb smoking...
by Olivier Lapidus/Lanvin.
Sylvie Vartan is always Sylvie Vartan, going her way.
Sylvie A L'Olympia Paris 2017, closing with : -
"I don't want the night to end" +
"Cheveux au Vent" (Against the Wind)
. . . . . . .
Against the wind
I'm still runnin' against the wind
I'm older now but still runnin' against the wind
Well I'm older now and still runnin'
Against the wind
Against the wind
Against the wind
Paris Match パリマッチ誌が翌朝にインターネット配信した初日の批評通りシルヴィ・ヴァルタンは常に新譜を中心とした公演を好むが、今年は節目でもあり、デビューから現在までを網羅したセットリストで2部構成(約40曲)。ミュージシャン9名とコーラス3名を伴い、幕間30分を含めて夜8時半から12時近くまで続く3時間公演。 衣装はLanvin(アーティスティック・ディレクターのオリヴィエ・ラピドス)。ポップでシックな白と黒のタキシード2着が久しぶりに斬新で目を引く。(何と、シルヴィの1961年の本劇場初舞台の白い衣装は彼の父親が作ったと言う。)
終盤の2曲は、1979年のオリジナル・アルバム(全曲英語)収録の熱狂的な "I Don't want the Night to End" (アメリカンナイト)、ファイナルは "Cheveux au vent" (髪をなびかせて)(ボブ・シーガー "Against the wind" のカバー)は2013年録音アルバム「Sylvie In Nashville」から。今年のライヴ・ヴァージョンは煌めく。まさに「素敵なヴァルタン」。
AFPの9月初旬のインタヴュー記事によると、シルヴィ・ヴァルタンは、引退どころか、今この瞬間をより大事にして将来を夢見ているそうだ。シルヴィは、本公演のラスト・ナンバー 「Cheveux au vent」(「Against the wind」) を歌う前に同じ事を言っている。ボブ・シーガーのフランス語カバーで締めくくった意味はそこにあると見える。風に向かって進む「バルタン気質」。シルヴィ・ヴァルタンは、格好良い。
photo: Sylvie Vartan in her residence in L.A, California, being interviewed per Franck Ragaine, a French journalist for Telestar. (Image/video per Emma Choussy)
Sylvie Vartan speaks in this interview about her next concert or spectacle at L'Olympia Paris in September2017.
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25. 01. 2017 PARIS, SYLVIE VARTAN - THE FASHION WEEK AT J.P. GAULTIER
photo: CD "Sylvie Vartan en Anglais...et en Americain" - Recording of free and beaming singing of young Sylvie Vartan. Available for sale in Japan with a Japanese edition booklet (Translation) of the fantastic UK prodcut (Ace Records).
One of wellknown London labels, ACE RECORDS projected and put on the market a rare CD, unusual compilation of the 1960s of Sylvie Vartan. It includes five inedited numbers and a high quality booklet that's worth this product with their recent interview with Sylvie Vartan in March 2016 !
SYLVIE en anglais...et en americain:
01/One More Day - 02/Gonna Cry - 03/Thinking About You - 04/Whirlpool - 05/I Can't Make Him Look At Me - 06/I Made My Choice - 07/Love Has Laid His Hands On Me - 08/Stupid Cupid - 09/Another Heart - 10/I Heard Somebody Say - 11/(I'm Watching) Every Little Move You Make - 12/One More Time, Encore Une Fois - 13/Alley Oop - 14/U.S.A. - 15/Baby It's You - 16/You Please Me So - 17/Run For The Sun - 18/It's Not A Game - 19/He Understands Me - 20/My Boyfriend's Back - 21/Friends In Need Are Friends Indeed - 22/I Wish You Well - 23/Since You Don't Care - 24/Gonna Cry (Alternate take) - 25/I Made My Choice (Alternate take)
photo (from Ace Records' facebook): Sylvie Vartan at a press conference in New York City.