Après
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Après |
| type | studio |
| artist | Iggy Pop |
| cover | Après.jpg |
| released | 9 May 2012 |
| recorded | February 2010 – June 2011 |
| studio | Silverlake Sound, Los Angeles; Crescent Moon Studios, Miami, Florida; The Groove Room, San Rafael, California; Bedford Studios |
| genre | {{flatlist |
| * rock{{cite web | url |
| length | 28:33 |
| label | Thousand Mile Inc |
| producer | Hal Cragin |
| chronology | Iggy Pop |
| prev_title | Préliminaires |
| prev_year | 2009 |
| next_title | Post Pop Depression |
| next_year | 2016 |
| :: |
| name = Après | type = studio | artist = Iggy Pop | cover = Après.jpg | alt = | released = 9 May 2012 | recorded = February 2010 – June 2011 | venue = | studio = Silverlake Sound, Los Angeles; Crescent Moon Studios, Miami, Florida; The Groove Room, San Rafael, California; Bedford Studios | genre = {{flatlist|
- Jazz
- blues
- rock | length = 28:33 | label = Thousand Mile Inc | producer = Hal Cragin | chronology = Iggy Pop | prev_title = Préliminaires | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = Post Pop Depression | next_year = 2016
Après is the sixteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop.
Background
Consisting partly of covers sung in French, it was released on 9 May 2012 on Thousand Mile Inc after the album was rejected by Virgin EMI Records. Pop said his record company would have 'preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks' and that "They didn't think they would make any money, they didn't think my fans would like it - very sensible attitudes for a sensible sort of person - but that's a different sort of person than I am."
The album has been described as containing ″crooning vocals, Cole Porter covers, soft melodies, and an all-around sense of everything suave″.
When asked by Bill Flanagan if he had heard any good records lately, Bob Dylan mentioned Après.
The cover photo is referring to the figure La Conscience played by Iggy Pop in the French movie L'Étoile du jour (Morning Star) by Sophie Blondy.
Track listing
| headline = | extra_column = Original artist
| title1 = Et si tu n'existais pas | writer1 = lyrics: Vito Pallavicini, Pierre Delanoë, Claude Lemesle; music: Pasquale Losito, Salvatore Cutugno | length1 = 3:36 | extra1 = Joe Dassin
| title2 = La Javanaise | writer2 = Serge Gainsbourg | length2 = 2:33 | extra2 = Serge Gainsbourg
| title3 = Everybody's Talkin' | writer3 = Fred Neil | length3 = 2:51 | extra3 = Fred Neil
| title4 = I'm Going Away Smiling | writer4 = Yoko Ono | length4 = 2:40 | extra4 = Yoko Ono
| title5 = La Vie en rose | writer5 = lyrics: Édith Piaf; music: Louis Guglielmi | length5 = 2:09 | extra5 = Édith Piaf
| title6 = Les Passantes | writer6 = lyrics: Antoine Pol; music: Georges Brassens | length6 = 4:12 | extra6 = Georges Brassens
| title7 = Syracuse | writer7 = lyrics: Bernard Dimey; music: Henri Salvador | length7 = 2:06 | extra7 = Henri Salvador
| title8 = What Is This Thing Called Love? | writer8 = Cole Porter | length8 = 2:51 | extra8 = Cole Porter
| title9 = Michelle | writer9 = John Lennon, Paul McCartney | length9 = 2:45 | extra9 = The Beatles
| title10 = Only the Lonely | writer10 = lyrics: Sammy Cahn; music: Jimmy Van Heusen | length10 = 2:51 | extra10 = Frank Sinatra
Personnel
Adapted from Discogs.
- Iggy Pop – vocals
- Hal Cragin – guitar (tracks 1–9), bass guitar, piano (tracks 3–5, 7, 8), vocals (track 9)
- Steven Ulrich – electric guitar (tracks 1, 2)
- Danny Blume – acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2), electric guitar (track 9)
- Jerry Zaslavsky – organ (tracks 1, 2)
- Jon Cowherd – piano (track 10)
- Ben Perowsky (tracks 5, 9), Jerry Marotta (tracks 4, 7), Kevin Hupp (tracks 1–3) – drums, percussion
- Jainardo Batista – percussion (tracks 1, 2)
- Aaron Halva – tres guitar (tracks 1, 2)
- Lucie Aimé (tracks 1, 5), Sarah Fimm (tracks 1, 2, 9) – backing vocals
- Tim Ouimette – horn arrangements (tracks 5, 8), horns (track 5), trombone (track 8)
- Lulu Gainsbourg – horn arrangement (track 2) Technical
- Hal Cragin – producer, engineer, mixing
- Andy Tommasi – additional production, engineer
- Guillaume le Grontec, Sophie Blondy – photography
Charts
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References
References
- link. "Iggy Pop – Après"
- link. "Iggy Pop Announces Album of Mostly French Covers". . (23 April 2012)
- link. "Iggy Pop vydá album s coververzemi". Jaroslav. Špulák. (25 April 2012)
- (10 May 2012). "Iggy Pop album shuns 'humiliating' record labels". [[The Daily Telegraph]].
- McGlashan, Maren. (22 June 2012). "Iggy Pop: Après Album Review".
- "Q&A with Bill Flanagan | The Official Bob Dylan Site".
- "Iggy Pop – Après (2012, Digisleeve, CD)".
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