internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and fashion icon, Carla Bruni, has released a new track from her forthcoming self-titled 6th studio album, which will be released on October 9th via Verve Records / Universal Music Group. Watch the stunning in-studio video for “Un grand amour,” a charming ode to the magic and power of love, now below. The track is available today on all digital and streaming services. The album is available for pre-order now.
This new collection of French songs (plus one in English, one in Italian and two covers – one of which is in Spanish) will be Carla Bruni’s first set of original music to be released in seven years. The album finds the artist wholeheartedly embracing her true self. Always sensitive, with emotions on the surface at times, the music on this album bears witness to a unique temperament and avoids ostentation. Listeners can sense a desire for a calm simplicity and serenity. Full track listing can be found below.
The majority of the project was written by Bruni, and the production of these songs was planned long before anyone set foot in the recording studio. Guitar, piano, a bit of foot-tapping and fragments of melody are the foundation of all the tracks, recorded behind closed doors with Albin de la Simone (Vanessa Paradis, Pomme, Alain Souchon, Pierre Lapointe), who produced and recorded the entire album in just six days with a small team of musicians. For his first collaboration with Carla Bruni, the multi-instrumentalist – one of the very best on the French scene in the past 20 years – was determined to give her new songs the most delicate treatment.
The album is warm and familiar and inimitably Carla. More music and information on Carla Bruni’s forthcoming release to be announced soon.
Carla Bruni has been writing and performing music since 1997 and her debut album, Quelqu’un M’a Dit (Someone Told Me) was released in 2002. Her critically acclaimed albums have sold over three million units worldwide, including 2007’s, No Promises, which set English poems to music, 2008’s Comme si de rien n’était (As If Nothing Happened), and 2013’s Little French Songs. Her 2017 album, French Touch, produced by legendary musician, producer, and composer David Foster, is a delightful trove of sentimental pop favorites chosen for their personal significance and reimagined in Carla’s intimate and moving acoustic style to inspire “a coup de foundre” – love at first sight. The album earned platinum status abroad and gold in France. Carla and her work have beenwidely acclaimed by international media (Today Show, NY Times, Sunday Times, BBC Breakfast, NPR, Vogue and more), and Carla Bruni has performed worldwide.
Carla Bruni Self-Titled Album Track Listing
1. Quelque chose
2. Un secret
3. Rien que l’extase
4. Un grand amour
5. Le petit guépard
6. Your Lady
7. Partir dans la nuit
8. Les séparés
9. Comme si c’était hier
10. La chambre vide
11. Un ange
12. Voglio l’amore feat. Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
13. Le garçon triste
Bonus Exclusive Track For Physical Copies
1. Porque te vas