With i-330, Flore Benguigui delivers a manifesto of artistic and feminine emancipation. While the album’s title draws its inspiration from Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We, the music itself dissolves the boundaries of time: between 1930s swing and electronic textures, jazz and pop are joyfully reinvented with playful elegance. Recorded live at Studio Pigalle, breathes spontaneity, warmth and shared joy, carried by a predominantly female collective - the Sensible Notes.
Together, they breathe new life into hidden gems by Nat King Cole and Margo Guryan, as well as treasures from French chanson, blending gentleness, boldness and luminous melancholy. More than a record, i-330 is a vibrant refuge - a poetic, timeless space where jazz, free and sensitive, rediscovers its liberating power.
Tracklist:
1. i-330 Machine à remuer le temps (Flore Benguigui)
2. More Understanding Than A Man (Margo Guryan)
3. What A Little Moonlight Can Do (Harry M. Woods)
4. Everything Happens To Me (Matt Dennis & Tom Adair)
5. Didn’t I Tell You So? (Unknown)
6. Dis, quand reviendras-tu ? (Barbara)
7. The Blue Room (Lorenz Hart & Richard Rodgers)
8. Goody Goody (John Herndon Mercer & Matt Malneck)
9. Riffin’ At The Bar-B-Q 03’03 (Nat King Cole)
10. Chanson de Simon (Jacques Demy / Michel Legrand)
11. Till Then (Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus, Guy Wood)
12. Louisiana Fairy Tale (Haven Gillespie, Mitchell Parish, J. Fred Coots)
