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Vu Du Large

by LA Cédille

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Flo Rosset Where did this band go???? "Empreintes" all day long. Favorite track: Empreintes.
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The Van 00:34
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Empreintes 04:36
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Escroquerie 04:07
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Dyslexie 04:45
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Harmonie 05:41
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La Chien 05:13
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Hume 03:28
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Sur La Berge 03:26
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Boston 04:18
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Local 8 00:19
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Replay 03:07
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Sous-Titre 05:00

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DJ MAG “With ‘Vu Du Large’ they’ve produced one of the classiest and most confident rap LP’s of recent years without barely breaking a sweat. (Paul Clarke) 5/5” ALBUM OF THE ISSUE!
DMC UPDATE "picture the scene of a heist being carried out with Ocean Eleven's stylishness ... suave nonchalance avoiding the hustle and bustle"
BLOWBACK " .... at times it soars, at times it scats but whatever your mood La Cedille will move you and remove those language barriers..."
NOTION "......perfectly captures their own particular blend of jazzmatazz, loaded as it is with coffee shop couture cool, velveteen guitar licks and crisp lyrics..."
UNDERCOVER “a highly competent (7-piece) band with a unique sound that follows on where Big Cheese Records and Silent Majority left off”
ECHOES “complete sensual cool and a major find for the Chocolate Fireguard label"
RAP MAG "on se volt instantanement contrant d'admettre que la comparaison avec The Roots n'a pas été volée tant le jazz et le rap se mélent sans a-coup”
OPEN MAG "La Cédille réunit jazz, rap et slam sous une forme spantanée et originale"
JAZZ MAG "Une authentique attitude musicienne - comme chez les Philadelphiens de The Roots"
RADIKAL "Un nouvel album prometteur qui permet à La Cédille d'occuper en France une scène musicale comptant chez les Anglo-Saxons des formations telles que The Roots ou Opus Akoben."
DJ MAG (album of the issue) " The French call it 'sang froid'. It technically translates as 'composure' but is normally understood to be the Gallic equivalent of 'cool'. Except it means something slightly more'- a certain chic mystique and aloof attitude that only our cousins across the channel can really pull off.
It's what makes Emmanuelle Beart or Juliette Binoche so enigmatically and untouchably sexy. Or at the other end of the scale, what can make ordering a cup of tea in a Parisian café such a humiliating experience when the bartender looks at you with utter disdain for daring to ask for it with milk.
But it's also what makes French hip hop both so unique and so successful. Until recently at least, UK hip hop has had its head as far up the arses of the Americans as poodle boy Blair, with the result that any distinctive voice was drowned out by fake Yank accents. But the most famous French rappers have never conformed to what mainstream MTV rap decrees to be 'cool'.
Rather than chasing Jay-Z's coat-tails, the French rap scene has produced a number of rappers who wear their national identity and speak their native language with pride. From Saian Supa Crew's deft battle-raps to MC Solaar's conscious hip hop, via the more abstract underground sounds of TTC and Le Peuple De L'Herbe, French hip hop has developed its own musical accent as mellifluous as the tongue in which those rhymes are rapped. And that 'sang froid' is the key. Jesus, if you could bottle the stuff and flog it, it would make most hip hop smell sweeter than smoking a spliff in a Chanel factory.
'Vu Du Large'- the debut album from French seven-piece La Cedille- absolutely reeks of it. Effortlessly cosmopolitan, gorgeous and glamorous, it sashays along utterly convinced of its own cool. Not that they're ignoring the rest of the world because La Cedille have clearly heard a few records by the Roots and Digable Planets in their time. But just as musicians like Django Reinhardt gave the jazz of Louis Armstrong a French twist, so La Cedille have taken the Philly soul template of Jazzy Jeff's A Touch Of jazz stable and the acid jazz sound of early Talkin' loud groups like Urban Species and stuffed them full of Gallic charm.
Like The Roots, it's La Cedille's live and organic sound that is their strength, something exemplified on 'Harmonie' with its gentle guitar and breezy vocals, or 'Boston', where the raps intertwine over a smooth jazz backing as lazily as lovers in a park on a summer's day. 'Hume', meanwhile, features a guest appearance form The Bluefoot Project's Rachel Modest, whose smoky and soulful voice is easily the equal of Jill Scott's. Even the faster tracks like 'Sur La Berge' refuse to be hurried along as the raps ride the rhythms to head-nodding heaven at their own effortlessly funky pace.
And why should La Cedille rush? With 'Vu Du Large' they've produced one of the classiest and most confident rap LP's of recent years without barely breaking a sweat. (Paul Clarke) 5/5"

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released January 1, 2012

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