Little Song Lines Gabi Hartmann

• 1Is Anything Wrong03:35
• 2Nowhere to Hide03:19
• 3Mille rivages (Acoustic Version)03:38
• 4Always Seem to Get Things Wrong (Acoustic Version)03:14
• 5L'amour incompris / Azza Fi Hawak03:54
• Total Runtime17:40

Info for Little Song Lines

The number 1 selling jazz artist in France now presents a new Folk EP with acoustic guitar and vocals.

In just a few months, her debut album has already reached 15 million streams. In addition to her acclaimed international concerts in New York, Berlin, London, Istanbul and Tokyo, she has sold out major French venues such as La Seine Musicale, Les Francofolies de La Rochelle and La Cigale, and has just announced a concert at the iconic Olympia in January 2025.

Gabi Hartmann's new EP " Little Songlines " is like an interlude between her debut album and the upcoming second album. Gabi Hartmann shares her more intimate side through this soft and sensitive EP.

Of the 5 songs on the album, 2 are acoustic versions of previously released tracks. Mille rivages" and "Always Seem to Get Things Wrong". He has also added two unreleased tracks "Nowhere to hide" and a beautiful cover of Mexican singer and songwriter Lhasa de Sela's "Is anything wrong". Lhasa de Sela is a strong influence on Gabi's music, as well as a female role model.

Finally, with the acoustic "L'amour incompris / Azza Fi Awak" (a mix between a French song and a traditional Sudanese protest song which was already on Gabi's debut album and which features a collaboration with flautist Ghandi Adam, Gabi celebrates the meeting of cultures with this new EP.

The entire EP was recorded live and features Gabi in a solo performance, singing and accompanying himself on guitar, with no click and very few arrangements.

In the tradition of folk singer-songwriters, in an intimate setting, the recording captures the essence of the songs and stories in their simplest and rawest form. The title, Little Songlines, is inspired by the Songlines of the Australian Aborigines, a system in which songs act as guardians of the spirit world.

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Gabi Hartmann
We can talk endlessly, but we don't necessarily know very clearly where Gabi Hartmann's voice takes us: a jazz bar in the basement, a tropical beach at dusk, a terrace on a slope in Lisbon, the background of a Parisian brasserie on a winter's night? We close our eyes and pass, entwined, the shadow of a jazz legend, a bossa nova diva, a great lady in black from French or Portuguese song, somewhere at the crossroads of exquisite chic and vertiginous melancholy, consoling sweetness and shared spleen.

Fifteen months after an introductory EP, Gabi Hartmann's first album is finally released, produced with Jesse Harris. They met in 2018 in New York during a recording session. He brings everything that makes the glory of his collaborations with Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux or Melody Gardot.

Gabi Hartmann also brings a personal musical history in the making, but already rich. Childhood with a Parisian family listening to chansons, rock, and music from everywhere. Classical piano until the age of fourteen, when she exchanged it for her brother's guitar to write songs. Jazz arising in rewind after her discovery of Amy Winehouse and her covers of Ella, Sinatra or Nat King Cole. Music lessons at the Schola Cantorum then at the Conservatory, a detour through Brazilian music by living two years in Rio de Janeiro, a year of ethnomusicology in London, returning to Paris to intertwine projects in ten genres and three languages.

When Jesse Harris asks her to make an album, she sees it as an invitation to "bring together all that I am", she says - the love of Billie Holiday and Lhasa de Sela, her friendships for the Sudanese flautist Ghandi Adam and for the Guinean guitarist Abdoulaye Kouyaté, her admiration for the great crooner Henri Salvador and her memories of travels in Africa, and venerable songs written before the birth of her parents...

From their meeting, the two musicians write and record between New York and Paris. Little by little, the coherence emerges from Gabi's songs between her love of the great jazz standards and her confessions as a young french woman of her century, between her fascination for the music of the Tropics and her Parisian poetic instinct...

While preparing this album, she opened for Jamie Cullum and Melody Gardot, regularly appeared at the famous Parisian jazz club Le Duc des Lombards, and watched a buzz around her name spread... At the start of 2021, the five tracks of her EP announced a great voice that is both popular and studied. And here is what the album confirms: warm and precise tone with an ounce of elegant casualness, equally tightrope walker charm in French, English and Portuguese (and also for a few verses in Arabic), timeless aesthetics with a frank look at its time (La Mer, tragic title on the fate of migrants in the Mediterranean sea), introspective author and plural composer... Here is the first album of the enchanting singer Gabi Hartmann who’s offering us the evocation of several worlds and several lives, where reverie and sweet melancholy are mixed.

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