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JOE BEL + MELANIE ISAAC
2nd May 2025 • Reflektor
- Doors • 19:30
- JOE BEL
- MELANIE ISAAC
JOE BEL
Joe Bel invites us to (re)discover her second album Family Tree, an exploration in search of her multiple origins, combining folk, catchy melodies, and Mediterranean colors. Through a sound that remains organic, in English and French, but also in Ladino, the old Spanish her grandfather still spoke, she chooses to reveal herself a little more, in an album that invites a journey of transmission between generations.
It is said that the voice is a mirror of the soul. Thus, there is both melancholy and sunshine, confidence and softness in the voice of songwriter Joe Bel.
MELANIE ISAAC
For her second album, En attendant Nico, Mélanie Isaac returns to the simplicity with which she made her debut. A return to the essentials, where songs, voice and text take precedence, with a narrative force that is autobiographical in every second. Far from the standards of the time, the musical setting is organic, lively and luminous: nine tracks recorded, produced and mixed at Wood Studio in Chênée with Maxime Wathieu, whose sincerity disarms. For the Ardenne-born singer never gives in to the seduction of the easy way out, preferring the harshness of piano-drums-guitar where voice and melody are king.
After “L’inachevée”, a highly acclaimed EP (Premier prix Franc’OFF at the Francofolies de Spa) and “Surface”, a critically acclaimed debut album (coup de coeur by the French-language public media for its single Paradis Nord ), “En attendant Nico” is the logbook of a woman whose sensibility clashes with a society in search of meaning (Elle cherche le A), refusing the sirens of the age (Le camp et la couleur), preferring poetic evidence to prefabricated discourse (Le sublime ordinaire). Seemingly enfin reconciled with her past (Le Tilleul, Une fleur sur le piano) and ready to face her ghosts (Je te garderai, Adieu je reste), Mélanie Isaac draws on our bruised souls a way out, accessible right away. What changed? Perhaps the birth of her fille, whom she carried inside her during the recordings of her new album.