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The French Album [Celine Dion]

Celine Dion
1 disc

1. Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Encore
2. Le Ballet
3. Regarde-Moi
4. Je Sais Pas
5. La Memoire D'Abraham
6. Cherche Encore
7. Destin
8. Les Derniers Seront les Premiers
9. J'Irai Ou Tu Iras
10. J'Attendais
11. Prire Paenne
12. Vole
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 67107
Credits

Producer
Engineer
Personnel: Celine Dion (vocals); Basile Leroux, Patrice Tison (guitar); Christophe Negre, Sylvain Beuf (saxophone); Christian Martinez, Antoine Russo (trumpet); Denis Leloup (trombone); Arnaud Dunoyer De Segonzac, Roland Romanelli (piano); Yannick Hardouin, Neil Jason (bass); Christophe Deschamps (drums); Erick Benzi (programming); Carole Fredericks, Yvonne Jones, Beckie Bell (background vocals).
Producers: Jean-Jacques Goldman, Erick Benzi.
Recorded at Studio Mega, Paris, France in November and December 1994.
Canadian Dion's first language was French, so it probably shouldn't have come as a surprise to anybody that she'd do an album in her native tongue, specifically a collaboration with Luc Plamondon, accurately described here as one of Canada's premier French language pop lyricists. Musically, it's pretty much business as usual, i.e. a mix of lovely pop ballads big production flourishes, soaring chord changes, and stadium-ready guitar parts. Some of the songs, particularly, the opening "Des Mots Qui Sonnent" rock quite a bit harder than one might have suspected; think a Gallic version of Foreigner. Best song: the romantic "Une Garcon Comme Les Autres (Ziggy)," which is not, alas, a French tribute to David Bowie's immortal spaceman.