CD | Arne Vinzon - About Ghosts

Here, ghosts serve as compasses frozen in time, like soft security blankets draped in faded white. There's Paul Verlaine, who, from the Batignolles cemetery, must be grooving to an unexpected and rhythmic cover of his poem "Charleroi". Or "Jeremiah Johnson", the solitary hero of Sydney Pollack's film, played by Robert Redford, in the eponymous song that opens the album to set the mood. To save them, "À propos de fantômes" sounds like an optimistic incantation that transcends time, an invitation to a journey through emotions, precious memories, and well-hidden, almost revealed secrets.

In an era where our world, consumed by fire, blood, and speed, sees its old ghosts resurface, Arne Vinzon plays the Ghostbusters game à la Leos Carax. Better still, he doesn't chase them away but welcomes them with open arms, a swaggering dandy who, with this latest album, sets a new beat against his time.