New York based French singer Margot Sergent presents classic French chansons and American vocal jazz which she accompanies on a harp here on her mesmerizing new album Douce France Sweet France (out now on Zoho Music).

A new singer with some new songs along with some familiar ones as well, she is admittedly relatively new to the instrument in question, especially given that she is a jazz vocalist.

And what is for me, essentially, a new language,, she reveals. I mean, I barely speak English, let alone French. Containing 11 tracks, the bilingual French-born jazz singer enables the listener to be drawn into the stories of the songs themselves, allowing a most sumptuous ambiance to fall over each and every one of them.

1. Keep the Moon in Mind
2. Douce France
3. The Apartment Next Door
4. I Wish You Love
5. Little Miracle
6. La Bohème
7. Dans Tes Bras Mon Ange
8. La Rua Madureira
9. Silent Steps
10. L’Hymne à L’Amour
11. Saudade

With each and every tune having a glamorous musical theater aspect to them, the new recording opens on the bluesy hipsway of Keep the Moon in Mind and the gentle French swing of Douce France and then we get the delicate swirl and twirl of The Apartment Next Door, the beautiful ballad I Wish You Love and the free flowing Little Miracle.

Margot’s charismatic presence continues onward with the impassioned La Bohème and one of my own personal favorites here, the ornately sculptured Dans Tes Bras Mon Ange and they are then in turn backed by the jaunty La Rua Madureira, the mid-tempo finger-snapper Silent Steps, the album rounding out on the veritably crystalline L’Hymne à L’Amour, coming to a close on the flavorful Harp-imbibed magnificence of Saudade.

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