Fantaisie militaire
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| Studio album by Alain Bashung | ||||
| Released | 6 January 1998 | |||
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Studio Miraval Studio Davout (strings) Studio Pierce Entertainment (mixing) |
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| Genre | French rock, Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 50:38 | |||
| Label | Barclay Records, Universal Music Group | |||
| Producer | Ian Caple | |||
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Fantaisie militaire (Military fantasy) is the tenth studio album by French rock musician Alain Bashung, released in January 1998 on Barclay Records.
For this album, Bashung worked with English record producer & engineer Ian Caple & with artists such as the Valentins, Rodolphe Burger, Joseph Racaille or Adrian Utley of Portishead. Most of the songs were written by Jean Fauque.
The song "Samuel Hall" is a drum'n'bass reworking of the folk song "Sam Hall".
The album hit #1 on the French charts. It was one of the artist's greatest successes, helped by the successful single "La nuit je mens".
Fantaisie militaire marked a turn in Bashung's career. He was awarded three Victoires de la musique awards in 1999: Male Artist of the Year, Best Album of the Year, and Video of the Year for the single "La nuit je mens". In 2005, the Victoires ranked it the best French album since 1985. Belgian rock historian Gilles Verlant also included the album in his book La discothèque parfaite de l'odyssée du rock, lauding it as a "chef d'œuvre" and the "shining diamond of the winter of 1998." He added that the album showed "Bashung mix the sounds and his inspiration with a perfect mastery of studio incidents" and that "its precision is that of a goldsmith, a jeweler, a maniac watchmaker". In 2010, the French edition of Rolling Stone magazine named Fantaisie militaire the 9th greatest French rock album ever made.
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