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Perles de Pluie
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Café des Chansons feat. Charlotte Haesen

Perles de Pluie

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917281521
Catnr: CC 72815
Release date: 27 September 2019
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Challenge Classics
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0608917281521
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CC 72815
Release date
27 September 2019

"Charlotte Haesen radiates a joie de vivre as she sings narrative and the fine string quartet lets these chanson pearls bubble up with its own authentic cachet, the whole full of warmth, power and emotion."

jazzhalo, 05-3-2020
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About the album

The chansons are about human experiences, human emotions. About love, deep sadness, the fear of being abandoned, but also about the joy of relationships and love. These chansons invite us to dare to be real people. At first sight, the chansons do not seem particularly deep; they are generally not spiritual; they do not use complicated turns of phrase. They describe the ordinary events of life, the lives of ordinary people. But it is precisely this description of ordinary events and encounters that opens the shutters to reveal the greater themes of life such as selfless love, hope and thankfulness. We understand how these chansons are about our own lives and realize how they can unleash powerful human emotions.
Het is Charlotte Haesen en de strijkers van het Tobalita Quartet opnieuw gelukt een album uit te brengen met wonderschone Franstalige winterliedjes. Met haar kristalheldere stem weet Charlotte de luisteraar te betoveren. Op dit tweede album van Café des Chansons voert het gezelschap ons mee naar menselijke ervaringen en emoties als liefde, verdriet, verlatingsangst, maar ook de vreugde die relaties en liefde kunnen brengen.

Het dagelijks leven

Het lijken chansons over simpele dingen, over het dagelijks leven van gewone mensen, zonder een spirituele insteek of ingewikkelde zinswendingen. Maar het zijn juist die eenvoudige beschrijvingen die de luiken openen naar de grotere thema's van het leven, zoals onbaatzuchtige liefde, hoop en dankbaarheid. De chansons gaan over ons eigen leven en kunnen krachtige emoties teweegbrengen.

Enthousiaste reacties

Charlotte Haesen (1987) in Amsterdam geboren, maar in Franstalig België opgegroeid, heeft roots in Nederland, Frankrijk en Burundi. De veelzijdige zangeres beheerst een breed scala aan muziekgenres, waarmee ze het publiek betovert met haar unieke timbre en onmiskenbare muzikaliteit. Charlotte studeerde jazz-zang op het Conservatorium van Amsterdam en won onder andere de EuJazz Award en de publieksprijs op het Concours de la Chanson Alliance Française. Ze is met verschillende formaties wereldwijd een graag geziene gast op festivals en podia in meer dan 15 landen en krijgt lovende recensies van de pers. Charlotte ontving enthousiaste reacties na haar optreden met Café des Chansons in de tv-uitzending Podium Witteman (2017) daaruit bleek wel dat ze niet langer een publiek geheim mocht blijven, maar naar buiten moest treden. De twee belangrijkste projecten waarop Charlotte zich tegenwoordig richt zijn: Café des Chansons en haar duo met gitarist Philip Breidenbach.


In den Chansons dreht sich alles um menschliche Erfahrungen, menschliche Emotionen. Um Liebe, tiefe Traurigkeit, die Angst, verlassen zu werden, aber auch um die Freude von Beziehungen und Zuneigung. Diese Lieder laden uns dazu ein es zu wagen, echte Menschen zu sein. Auf den ersten Blick scheinen die Chansons nicht besonders tiefgründig, sie sind generell nicht geistlich, nutzen keine komplizierte Ausdrucksweise. Sie beschreiben die gewöhnlichen Ereignisse des Lebens, das Leben gewöhnlicher Leute. Doch es ist genau diese Beschreibung von gewöhnlichen Ereignissen und Treffen, die den Blick freigibt auf die großen Themen des Lebens wie selbstlose Liebe, Hoffnung und Dankbarkeit. Wir können verstehen, dass diese Chansons auch unser eigenes Leben beschreiben und starke Gefühle auslösen können.

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Café des Chansons

On a sunny Saturday afternoon Charlotte sang French chansons at Amsterdam’s Noordermarkt, where she was discovered by viola player Odile Torenbeek. The next step was the founding of the highly acclaimed programm 'Café des Chansons'. Leading arrangers such as Paul Prenen and Wijnand van Klaveren arranged some of the most beautiful French chansons around Charlotte’s own particular sound, anchoring it in a string quartet from the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra: the Tobalita String Quartet. Singer Charlotte Haesen was born in Amsterdam in 1987. She has origins from France, The Netherlands and Burundi and grows up at the border between French speaking Belgium and The Nederlands. Later she studied jazz vocals at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Known for being active in various musical genres, she...
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon Charlotte sang French chansons at Amsterdam’s Noordermarkt, where she was discovered by viola player Odile Torenbeek. The next step was the founding of the highly acclaimed programm 'Café des Chansons'. Leading arrangers such as Paul Prenen and Wijnand van Klaveren arranged some of the most beautiful French chansons around Charlotte’s own particular sound, anchoring it in a string quartet from the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra: the Tobalita String Quartet.
Singer Charlotte Haesen was born in Amsterdam in 1987. She has origins from France, The Netherlands and Burundi and grows up at the border between French speaking Belgium and The Nederlands. Later she studied jazz vocals at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Known for being active in various musical genres, she has won the EuJazz Award, the public prize of the Dutch Alliance Française competition and received several awards for her videoclips. Being a uniquely versatile artist, Haesen has performed with different formations at festivals and clubs in over 15 countries worldwide.
Odile and Charlotte release their first album in 2017. It ends up nr. 5 in the Concerto Plato World Top 10 and Mania Magazine.
Promo: Live performance at Podium Witteman Videoclip PRESS ‘Absolutely stunning.’ ★★★★★ - HET PAROOL (2017) ‘Charlotte sings in a beautifully authentic and intimate fashion.’ - NRC ‘A fascinating voice.’ - SENA PERFORMERS MAGAZINE ‘The subtle worldly shades are priceless and give the soulful songs a colorful subtone. Haesen's voice is cristallyne and powerful’ - LIVE XS ‘And what about the singer Charlotte Haesen? She grew up in the Euregion – A future ray of hope for the Jazz from that region.’ - JAZZISM ’You can defenatly say that 'Salomé' was a very meritorious debut of a quirky and willful lady.’- Muziek from NL ‘The songs of Haesen are original, compact, exciting and melodious. - HET PAROOL ‘Charlotte Haesen enchants with her voice, timing and her wonderful performance. (...) she provides for goosebumps and unexpected tears. After the performance on Podium Witteman it is clear from the enthusiastic reviews that she can’t stay a public secret any longer.’ - UITZINNIG.NL
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Charlotte Haesen (vocals)

Known to be active in various musical genres, the singer Charlotte Haesen reaches her listeners with her authentic performance and storytelling, her unmistakable timbre and her incredible musicality. She has won the EuJazz Award, the public price at the 28th Concours de la Chanson Alliance Francaise and received several rewards for her videoclips. Being a uniquely versatile artist, Haesen has performed with different formations at festivals and stages in over 15 countries worldwide. Born in Amsterdam, she has origins from France, The Netherlands and Burundi. She grows up at the border between French speaking Belgium and The Nederlands. She studies jazz singing at the Maastricht Conservatory and the Amsterdam University of the Arts. Charlotte currently focuses on two main projects: Café des Chansons and her duo with guitar...
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Known to be active in various musical genres, the singer Charlotte Haesen reaches her listeners with her authentic performance and storytelling, her unmistakable timbre and her incredible musicality. She has won the EuJazz Award, the public price at the 28th Concours de la Chanson Alliance Francaise and received several rewards for her videoclips. Being a uniquely versatile artist, Haesen has performed with different formations at festivals and stages in over 15 countries worldwide.

Born in Amsterdam, she has origins from France, The Netherlands and Burundi. She grows up at the border between French speaking Belgium and The Nederlands. She studies jazz singing at the Maastricht Conservatory and the Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Charlotte currently focuses on two main projects: Café des Chansons and her duo with guitar player Philip Breidenbach: Haesen & Breidenbach.


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Giles Francis (violin)

Odile Torenbeek (viola)

Odile Torenbeek studied viola at the Hochschule für Musik (Detmold) at Nobuko Imai, surgeon the prestigious Fulbright scholarship gave her the opportunity to obtain a Master of Music at Yale University with prof.Jesse Levine. Odile works in many orchestras both in the US and in Germany. Since 1996 she is a member of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Chamber music has always been central to her career. She performs in many different formations at home and abroad.
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Odile Torenbeek studied viola at the Hochschule für Musik (Detmold) at Nobuko Imai, surgeon the prestigious Fulbright scholarship gave her the opportunity to obtain a Master of Music at Yale University with prof.Jesse Levine. Odile works in many orchestras both in the US and in Germany. Since 1996 she is a member of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Chamber music has always been central to her career. She performs in many different formations at home and abroad.


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Anjali Tanna (cello)

Composer(s)

Django Reinhardt

Born in Belgium on January 23, 1910, Django Reinhardt learned guitar at an early age, adapting his technique to accommodate the loss of the use of two fingers burned in a caravan fire in 1928. Reinhardt toured the United States with Duke Ellington in 1946. He was one of the first important guitar soloists in jazz; his blend of swing and the Roma musical tradition, as well as his unconventional technique, made him a unique and legendary figure. Reinhardt died in France in 1953. Early Life Born on January 23, 1910, in Liberchies, Belgium, Django Reinhardt became famous for his unique musical sound, which blended elements of American jazz with traditional European and Roma music. Reinhardt's father was a musician and entertainer...
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Born in Belgium on January 23, 1910, Django Reinhardt learned guitar at an early age, adapting his technique to accommodate the loss of the use of two fingers burned in a caravan fire in 1928. Reinhardt toured the United States with Duke Ellington in 1946. He was one of the first important guitar soloists in jazz; his blend of swing and the Roma musical tradition, as well as his unconventional technique, made him a unique and legendary figure. Reinhardt died in France in 1953.

Early Life

Born on January 23, 1910, in Liberchies, Belgium, Django Reinhardt became famous for his unique musical sound, which blended elements of American jazz with traditional European and Roma music. Reinhardt's father was a musician and entertainer and his mother was a dancer, according to some reports; they were Manouches, or French gypsies, and they eventually settled in a camp near Paris. Raised without any formal schooling, Reinhardt was practically illiterate.

In his youth, Reinhardt learned to play an interesting instrument—a hybrid of a guitar and a banjo. He was largely self-taught, never learning how to write or read music. Later on, Reinhardt had to depend on others to transcribe his compositions. He was already playing in clubs in Paris by his early teens. Reinhardt started out playing popular French music, but he became interested in American jazz in the mid-1920s. He especially liked the works of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Joe Venuti. His promising career, however, was almost ended by a terrible accident in 1928.

In 1928, Reinhardt was injured in a fire in his caravan. A lit candle fell into some paper, or celluloid, flowers that his wife had made to sell, and the flames quickly spread throughout their home. Both Reinhardt and his wife made it out of the fire, but Reinhardt suffered bad burns to his right leg and left hand. Perhaps worst of all for this talented musician, he permanently lost the use of two fingers on his damaged hand. He would spend the next 18 months to two years recuperating.

During this time, Reinhardt taught himself how to play music again. It was a slow, painful process, but he devised an innovative style of guitar playing. With his two fingers and thumb, Reinhardt handled his instrument with remarkable speed and agility. He was back to dazzling audiences in the Paris nightclubs by 1930.
Famous Quintet

By the mid-1930s, Reinhardt had joined forces with violinist Stephane Grappelli to form the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (Quintette du Hot Club de France). Their group, which grew to include Reinhardt's brother Joseph and others, became the first major European jazz band. Some of the band's early recordings included covers of American songs like "Dinah" and "Lady Be Good," and these tracks helped win them a following on both sides of the Atlantic.

Reinhardt also produced original music, which fused his musical heritage with the latest jazz and swing sounds. Some of his most famous works with the quintet are "Djangology," "Bricktop" and "Swing 39." His style from this period has been called "gypsy swing" and "le jazz hot."


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Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel, in full Jacques Romain Georges Brel, (born April 8, 1929, Schaerbeeck, Belgium—died October 9, 1978, Bobigny, near Paris, France), Belgian singer and songwriter whose literate, passionate songs made him one of the most popular French-language musicians in Europe and gained him a worldwide following. Brel began writing stories and poems as a teen, but he was an indifferent student, and after his final year of secondary school he took a job with his father’s packaging company. While there he became involved with a philanthropic youth organization, and he started performing and writing songs as a member of that group. Brel began singing his compositions in Brussels cabarets in 1952, and the following year he released his first recording, a single that featured the songs “Il y a” (“There Is” or...
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Jacques Brel, in full Jacques Romain Georges Brel, (born April 8, 1929, Schaerbeeck, Belgium—died October 9, 1978, Bobigny, near Paris, France), Belgian singer and songwriter whose literate, passionate songs made him one of the most popular French-language musicians in Europe and gained him a worldwide following.

Brel began writing stories and poems as a teen, but he was an indifferent student, and after his final year of secondary school he took a job with his father’s packaging company. While there he became involved with a philanthropic youth organization, and he started performing and writing songs as a member of that group. Brel began singing his compositions in Brussels cabarets in 1952, and the following year he released his first recording, a single that featured the songs “Il y a” (“There Is” or “There Are”) and “La Foire” (“The Fair”) on its two sides. Although the single was only modestly successful, it caught the attention of a French recording executive, who invited Brel to move to Paris.

In 1953 Brel began singing in French cafés. He did not meet with immediate success, but he persevered, and his first album, Jacques Brel et ses chansons (“Jacques Brel and His Songs”) appeared in 1955. He finally broke through with the title song of his second album, Quand on n’a que l’amour (1957; “If We Only Have Love”), and by the end of the decade he was a star in France. His songs, frequently sharply satirical and often implicitly religious, also became hugely popular in much of Europe. His best-known songs, including “Ne me quitte pas” (“Do Not Leave Me”), “Amsterdam,” “Madeleine,” “Les Vieux” (“The Old Ones”), and “La Chanson des vieux amants” (“Song of Old Lovers”), were translated and recorded by numerous singers in other languages. Notable American recordings of Brel’s songs included Damita Jo’s “If You Go Away” (1966), a translation by Rod McKuen of “Ne me quitte pas”; Judy Collins’s “The Dove” (1963), an English-language version of “La Colombe”; David Bowie’s “Amsterdam” (1973) and “My Death” (1983), the latter a translation of Brel’s “La Mort” (1959); and Terry Jacks’s “Seasons in the Sun” (1974), McKuen’s rather cloying translation of Brel’s 1961 song “Le Moribond” (“The Dying Man”). Brel became best known in the United States, however, through the 1968 Off-Broadway revue Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, which was revived on Broadway in 1972 and filmed in 1975, featuring translations by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman.

Brel announced his retirement from performing in 1966, with his final performance the following year, and he also released the album Jacques Brel 67. His next, and final, album, Les Marquises (1977), was rapturously received. A statue of Brel singing was unveiled in Brussels in 2017.

Brel also acted in 10 films from 1967 to 1973, two of which he directed. In addition, he adapted and translated the stage musical Man of La Mancha as L’Homme de la Mancha, and he both directed and played the lead in 1968 in Brussels and in a 1968–69 staging in Paris.


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Charles Trenet

Louis Charles Auguste Claude (Charles) Trenet (Narbonne, 18 May 1913 - Créteil, 19 February 2001) was a French singer, composer and actor, active from the nineties until the nineties of the 20th century. Trenet, who got his comic expression and his felt hat the nickname 'Le Fou Chantant' (the singing fool), is best known for his world hit Douce France and La mer. In France, Trenet is just as famous as Édith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.  
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Louis Charles Auguste Claude (Charles) Trenet (Narbonne, 18 May 1913 - Créteil, 19 February 2001) was a French singer, composer and actor, active from the nineties until the nineties of the 20th century. Trenet, who got his comic expression and his felt hat the nickname "Le Fou Chantant" (the singing fool), is best known for his world hit Douce France and La mer. In France, Trenet is just as famous as Édith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.


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Charlotte Haesen (vocals)

Known to be active in various musical genres, the singer Charlotte Haesen reaches her listeners with her authentic performance and storytelling, her unmistakable timbre and her incredible musicality. She has won the EuJazz Award, the public price at the 28th Concours de la Chanson Alliance Francaise and received several rewards for her videoclips. Being a uniquely versatile artist, Haesen has performed with different formations at festivals and stages in over 15 countries worldwide. Born in Amsterdam, she has origins from France, The Netherlands and Burundi. She grows up at the border between French speaking Belgium and The Nederlands. She studies jazz singing at the Maastricht Conservatory and the Amsterdam University of the Arts. Charlotte currently focuses on two main projects: Café des Chansons and her duo with guitar...
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Known to be active in various musical genres, the singer Charlotte Haesen reaches her listeners with her authentic performance and storytelling, her unmistakable timbre and her incredible musicality. She has won the EuJazz Award, the public price at the 28th Concours de la Chanson Alliance Francaise and received several rewards for her videoclips. Being a uniquely versatile artist, Haesen has performed with different formations at festivals and stages in over 15 countries worldwide.

Born in Amsterdam, she has origins from France, The Netherlands and Burundi. She grows up at the border between French speaking Belgium and The Nederlands. She studies jazz singing at the Maastricht Conservatory and the Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Charlotte currently focuses on two main projects: Café des Chansons and her duo with guitar player Philip Breidenbach: Haesen & Breidenbach.


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Press

Charlotte Haesen radiates a joie de vivre as she sings narrative and the fine string quartet lets these chanson pearls bubble up with its own authentic cachet, the whole full of warmth, power and emotion.
jazzhalo, 05-3-2020

This interpretation of Cafe Des Chansons gives a beautiful, emotional note to the genre.
Mania, 08-11-2019

Music is a time machine that shows me which road I take through life, what is mine and who I am.
NRC, 06-11-2019

Charlotte Haesen radiates a joie de vivre as she sings narrative and the fine string quartet lets these chanson pearls bubble up with its own authentic cachet, all full of warmth, power and emotion.
jazzhalo, 24-10-2019

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01.
Si tu n'étais pas là
02:04
(Unknown) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
02.
Il neige sur Liège
04:02
(Jacques Brel) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
03.
Le Noël de la rue
02:43
(Marc Heyral, Henri Contet) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
04.
Göttingen
02:56
(Barbara) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
05.
Ne me quitte pas
04:06
(Jacques Brel, Gérard Jouannest) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
06.
Maumariée
04:59
(Anne Sylvestre) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
07.
Le petit Noël
03:53
(Charles Trenet, Johnny Hess) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
08.
Tu te moques
02:58
(Marcel Mouloudji, Christian Verger) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
09.
Nuages
03:27
(Django Reinhardt) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
10.
L'enfant
02:19
(Charlotte Haesen) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
11.
Que reste-t-il de nos amours?
03:34
(Charles Trenet, L. Chauliac) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
12.
Une mélodie
03:24
(Charlotte Haesen) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
13.
Dans un rêve
02:51
(Harold Arlen, Charlotte Haesen) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
14.
La fourmi
00:46
(Robert Desnos, Joseph Kosma) Café des Chansons, Charlotte Haesen, Giles Francis, Evelien Jaspers, Odile Torenbeek, Anjali Tanna
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Videos

Charlotte Haesen & Philip Breidenbach - Ou est l'amour

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