more from
Outside Music
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Encore!

by Jill Barber

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Encore!. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases June 14, 2024

      $10 CAD  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Encore!. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases June 14, 2024
    item ships out on or around June 19, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $30 CAD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Encore!. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases June 14, 2024
    item ships out on or around June 21, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $15 CAD or more 

     

1.
Plus je t’embrasse
2.
Ménilmontant
3.
Nuages
4.
De temps en temps 
5.
Padam padam 03:42
6.
La mer
7.
Ordinaire
8.
Mal de vivre
9.
Les eaux de Mars
10.
Que reste-t-il de nos amours?
11.
Parlez-moi d’amour

about

A cafe in Paris, a cocktail lounge in Palm Springs, a beachside bar in Rio De Janeiro, a lokanta in Istanbul. Jill Barber’s French repertoire is played around the world and has earned her a following that transcends language barriers. It’s the soundtrack to an experience.

It’s a surprising achievement for an Anglo-Canadian artist who only began her affair with the French language in her late twenties, following a moment of inspiration during the Montreal Jazz Festival, where she sang a few notes of French to an enraptured crowd.

Shortly after, Barber enrolled herself in a late immersion French school in the South of France, eventually emerging with her own recordings of the songs and poets that inspired her: Piaf, Gainsbourg, Aznavour. She titled the collection Chansons. The album was released in 2013.

Chansons quickly became her most globally successful album to date, being streamed over 120 million times, receiving countless playlist placements, gaining 1.25 monthly listeners on Spotify, and sparking tours to Europe, Japan, Mexico, and the Middle East, as well as top jazz festival billings across Canada.

“For me, singing in French is an embodied, sensual experience… it’s a new language in which to explore and express myself artistically- and be vulnerable.”

A decade later, Jill has reunited with Grammy Award-nominated producer Drew Jurecka (Dua Lipa, Alvvays, Dermot Kennedy) to produce ENCORE!, the long-awaited sequel to Chansons.

It is a delightfully arranged, and lushly orchestrated album, featuring brand new interpretations of classic songs by Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Blossom Dearie, Django Reinhardt and Barbara.


“Ordinaire”, made famous by Robert Charlebois and Céline Dion sees Jill interpreting the Quebec classic song with a hauntingly beautiful performance “I approached this performance like an actor might, becoming the central character in the song, in all her fragility”. De temps en temps, was released in 1939 by African American Josephine Baker, and the song propelled her to stardom; “At the time it was risqué for a woman to sing about her desire for physical affection without the need for a relationship- and I believe it’s still quite sexy and empowering today”.

The French have a saying for a particularly pleasurable sensation that is so unique, it’s difficult to put into words- when Jill Barber sings in French, there is a pleasing quality, a “je ne sais quoi” that is hard to describe, but easy to enjoy. Now she’s done it again- ENCORE!

credits

releases June 14, 2024

Produced, Arranged and Orchestrated by Drew Jurecka
Bed tracks recorded at Union Sound Co by Chris Stringer & Darren McGill
Orchestration and Vocals recorded at Small Dog Sound by Drew Jurecka
French Coaching by Thérèse Champagne
Additional editing and score preparation - Jackson Welchner
Mixed by Drew Jurecka
Mastered by Justin Gray at Synthesis Sound


Photography by Rachel Pick
Album Design by Naomi MacDougall

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Jill Barber Vancouver, British Columbia

"Wow, wow, wow. Barber so skillfully combines perfect pop rhythms with fiery, empowering lyrics and cutting edge instrumentation. Powerful, confident and spot on with the topics of the day, Barber’s latest is a spirited work of art." - PARADE Magazine

contact / help

Contact Jill Barber

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Jill Barber, you may also like: