We thought we knew everything about the musical career of Marie Laforêt since the release, a few months before her death in 2019, of an impeccable complete album. Yohann Masson, who is responsible for the latter, has added a previously unreleased recording: the album Le Feu (Polydor). Very few people were familiar with this album, recorded in 1980. Including Debora Kahn, the artist’s last daughterborn a few years before the studio sessions for this project. “ I didn’t know her at all in this bluesier register almost rock. It both amuses and moves me to hear it, she explains, very happy to evoke the memory of her mother. I’m lucky enough to have images and songs that take me back to her. “

Debora Kahn heard about these new songs thanks to Yohann Masson, who carried out a real police investigation to get his hands on them. “ Not long ago, he was overjoyed to have found these tapes. He’d been bugging the Swiss producer for…