L'Aventura
L'Aventura is the sixth studio album by French musician Sébastien Tellier, released on 17 July 2014 by Record Makers.
Background
The album was inspired by Tellier's childhood and Brazil, where the video to one of its songs, "L'adulte", is set in. Tellier states: "For this album, I wanted to rewrite my childhood. I chose to set this adventure in Brazil, a country of splendor and joy with an eternally childlike soul." The album was recorded during the promotion period for Tellier's previous album Confection in the studios of Arthur Verocai, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Philippe Zdar.The album, consisting of ten tracks, is sung entirely in French.
Critical reception
L'Aventura was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 70, based on 10 reviews.Personnel
- Sébastien Tellier – vocals, guitar, bass, composer, producer
- Daira Saboia – backing vocals
- Jurema de Cândia – backing vocals
- John Carroll Kirby – keyboards
- Johan Holmegard – drums
- Robertinho Silva – percussion
- Daniel Garcia – tenor saxophone, flute
- Dirceu Leite – flute
- Ana Catto – violin
- Ana de Oliveira – violin
- Andre Cunha – violin
- Her Agapito – violin
- Karolin Rosalie Broosch – violin
- Marco Catto – violin
- Pedro Mibielli – violin
- Priscila Rato – violin
- Déborah Cheyne – viola
- Eduardo Pereira – viola
- David Chew – cello
- Marcus Ribeiro – cello
- Arthur Verocai – arrangement, conductor
- David Mestre – engineering
- Mike Marsh – mastering
- Philippe Zdar – mixing
- Bastien Vandevelde – mixing
- Julien Torb – mixing