New Release: Paris After Dark from Sacha Boutros

 

Multi-lingual jazz vocalist Sacha Boutros reimagines 100 years of popular music by French and American composers on her 2025 effort Paris After Dark.   Demonstrating her flare for jazz, blues, soul, adult pop, and swing, Boutros shares her interpretation of tunes taken from the Great American Songbook as well as from classic French pop catalogs, singing alternately in French and English with a little Italian.  The 10-track collection is Boutros's fifth full-length album and the second in a series of After Dark recordings, initiated by New York After Dark in 2013, and soon to be followed by Las Vegas After Dark and Mexico After Dark.  Each recording shows her fondness for these cities, representing their spirit at night with music heard in the cafés, clubs, taxis, and on the streets.  This latest addition to the series gives the listener an impression of Paris at night with its smooth cocktail-imbued ambiences and the refined textures of Boutros's vocalese.  Breezy and hypnotically percussive, the tracks steadily flow one after another, allowing the listener to savor each track, submerged in its lulling grooves and spellbinding fluidity.  Coaxing its listener to wander through its dreamy caverns like the tangoesque strut of  "Love in Portofino" and the gentle billowing beats of  Cole Porter's iconic ballad "In the Still of the Night."  Her vocals soar lustrously, seducing her audience to come with her along these daydreamy trysts, improvising crafty vocal hooks.  She closes the set with the soulful swinging number “La Belle Vie” (“The Good Life”) spotlighting solos by Stéphane Belmondo on trumpet and Franck Amsellem on piano.  Dimly lit, Boutros breathes new life into distant favorites.

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