Christian VANDER - A TOUS LES ENFANTS

This record is the essence of beauty. Only extremes of anger and torrents of fury could erase Christian VANDER's underlying look of childish innocence and prevent him from offering, without defences, that which always shines in the heart of his music: honesty. In the open space between TO LOVE and Stella VANDER's album D'EPREUVES D'AMOUR, A TOUS LES ENFANTS unfolds like a book of images, full of stars, through which birds fly, farandoles turn, rattles chatter and sorcerers dance. Nursery rhymes, musical mysteries, songs full of fervour and keyboards which chime like bells are found here. The tales of Noel de Kobaia are revealed to the Earth. These crystalline and limpid melodies have ineffable charm, sounding as much as anything like the music boxes that one opens and then closes for fear that their treasures will escape.

Christian VANDER piano, keyboards, vocals, narration - Stella VANDER vocals, keyboards, keyboards programming, narration - Isabelle FEUILLEBOIS vocals - Julie VANDER vocals - Et les enfants Elodie et Fleur GEORGELIN, Maud SACQUET, Fabio CHRISTINY, Gary et Kevin DUMONT, Marcus LINON, Ivan WAROQUET
"Dodo l'enfant do" with Pierre-Michel Sivadier keyboards Lydia Domancich keyboards Philippe Dardelle bass

-1 COUCOU ! -2 AU PREMIER COUP ENTENDEZ-VOUS ! -3 HYMNE AUX ENFANTS -4 AU DEUXIEME COUP APPRETEZ-VOUS ! -5 REGARDE... -6 J'AI DU BON TABAC -7 LES OIES SAUVAGES -8 MR VENT -9 AU TROISIEME COUP AMENEZ-VOUS! -10 LE BALLET DES SORCIERES -11 IL EST SEPT HEURES REVEILLEZ-VOUS ! -12 RONDE DE NUIT -13 AUJOURD'HUI C'EST FETE -14 IL EST NOEL -15 CHANSON POUR PAQUES -16 CHANSON DES OEUFS -17 LA MEMOIRE DE L'EAU -18 A LA CLAIRE FONTAINE -19 LE MARCHAND DE SABLE -20 DODO L'ENFANT DO

recorded at UNIWERiA ZEKT studio in 1994 by Francis LINON.