Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy
| Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy | ||||
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| Live album by Mylène Farmer | ||||
| Released | December 4, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | Paris | |||
| Genre | Pop, rock | |||
| Length | 1:40:05 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Laurent Boutonnat | |||
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| Singles from Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy | ||||
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Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy is the fourth live album by Mylène Farmer, released on December 4, 2006.
Six years after her Mylenium Tour, Mylène Farmer came back on stage with a tour in 2006 which included 13 shows at Bercy, in Paris. This very successful series of concerts started on January 13 and ended 16 days later, on January 29. As after each of her tour, Farmer decided to launch a live album retracing her concert. Thus, Jérome Devoise mixed the 20 songs performed on stage and the album "Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy" was eventually released on December 4, 2006 as CDs and DVDs, under various editions.
The album contains songs from all Farmer's studio albums, except Cendres de Lune and Innamoramento. The production enjoys very high quality in terms of sound effects. Some of the old hits were re-orchestred in a much modern version, while the slow songs from the last studio album are recorded in a more stripped style.
The various formats, particularly the DVD box, had huge success: the video was certified Diamond after a single week of release.
The two singles from this album, "Avant que l'ombre..." and "Déshabillez-moi", achieved a minor success in term of sales, but were both top ten hits in France.
This album was, on the whole, well received by media and contemporary pop music critics. Nicolas Gardon, in L'Echo Republicain, said that this album offers an "fair performance, but only a few surprises: the shimmering and coloured universe of Mylène Farmer is perfectly reproduced in this double CD. The release of this DVD was regarded as "the event of the week" by the magazine Télé Star.
Dvdrama qualifies the DVD as "sublime" video, specifying: "The image of this concert exceeds in all respects the nevertheless perfect image of the previous two already available concerts. The red and the black, the dominant colors, are staggering of beauty". On the other hand, it expressed some little criticisms on the quality of the sound.
In France, the DVD was sold to 98,000 copies in its first week of release — what constitutes a record. On the French Videos Chart, it debuted at number 1 for four consecutive weeks and stayed in the top ten for 13 weeks. It managed to remain in the top 40 until November 17, 2007. Certified diamond, this DVD was, only 15 days after its release, the second best-selling video of 2006, just behind the musical Le Roi Soleil.
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