Carnets de scène


Carnets de scène is an album recorded by the French artist Patricia Kaas. It was her first live album, and her third album overall. Recorded during the Scène de vie tour, Kaas' first concerts tour, and released in 1991, the album was successful, particularly in France, and was also re-issued as DVD in 2004.

Background

After the huge success of her first two studio albums, Kaas decided to perform a series of concerts across the world : the Scène de vie tour. There were 210 concerts, 650,000 spectators in 13 countries, including Japan, Canada and the USSR, where she sang in Moscow and Leningrad. It was recorded across two days between May 12 and 19, 1990, at Zénith of Paris.
The album contains many songs from Mademoiselle chante... and Scène de vie, plus a few new songs, such as "Lily Marlène". The hits "Mademoiselle chante le blues" and "Quand Jimmy dit" were performed in an extended version.
The original double CD included 20 tracks; the single CD issue includes the 16 tracks listed below.
About 13 years later, the label Sony BMG also published the album as a live DVD.

Chart performances

The CD went straight to #8, its peak position, on December 6, 1991, on the French SNEP Albums Chart. It remained for only two weeks in the top ten and 16 weeks in the top 40. It achieved double gold four years after its release.
The album was less successful in Germany and Switzerland, where it stayed in the low positions.

Track listing

; CD
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1."Générique 2:04
2."Les Mannequins d'osier"
3:49
3."Venus des abribus"
3:49
4."Mon mec à moi"
5:02
5."Cœurs brisés"
3:31
6."L'Heure du jazz"
4:28
7."Lili Marlène"
1:03
8."D'Allemagne"
3:40
9."Summertime"
2:35
10."Kennedy Rose"
3:40
11."Mademoiselle chante le blues"
7:58
12."Bessie"
4:46
13."Les hommes qui passent"
4:56
14."Une Dernière Semaine à New York"
3:42
15."Quand Jimmy dit"
7:34
16."Un Dernier Blues"
2:04

; DVD
Same track listing

Personnel

  • Management : Talent Sorcier
  • Production : Gérard Drouot productions, Note de blues
  • Production director : Jean-Hugues Feugeas
  • Musical direction : Claude Samard, Patriciens and her vocalists
  • Bass, percussion : Noël Assolo
  • Bass, saxophone : Philippe Gonnand
  • Guitar : Jean-Pierre Taieb
  • Drum kit : Jean-Claude Givoine, Christophe Deschamps, Pascal Reva
  • Keyboards : Benoît Sourisse, Michel Amsellem, Yves Ottino
  • Background vocals : Slim Batteux, Jacques Mercier
  • Sound engineer and mixing : Bruno Lambert
  • Artistic production : Jean-Jacques Souplet
  • Recorded at Studio Le Voyageur II
  • Mixed at Studio Marcadet
  • Photo on the cover : Bernard Levy
  • Photos in the booklet : B.Auger, F.Garcia, C.Gassian, B.Leloup, B.Levy, M.Marizi, Naoki, B.Pierrat, P.Riedinger, S.Rubinstein, P.Terrasson, F.Vernhet, X
  • Design : Antonietti, Pascault & Ass.