A fresco on the history of a mythical French Touch label, the portrait of a pop icon, and an intimate story around a secret figure: there will be something for everyone.

Music is also a story of anecdotes, tiny or grandiose, of romantic adventures or adventures on a human scale, of intimacies sucked in by the discovery of an artist, of a scene, of passions over a lifetime. Each in their own way, these three books tell us something about their authors, something in which we recognize ourselves, for whom music exceeds the status of a more or less dispensable product poured into moulds for this or that application. About 100,000 songs land daily on Spotify, and no doubt, within this number there are golden nuggets, those that make the hearts behind these words beat a little faster or slower.&nbsp; Julia Pialat returns with an exciting sense of storytelling, to two decades of Ed Banger, a true festive and aesthetic epic. The record company that changed the face of the French Touch, inventing it thanks to the vision of Pedro Winter. From clandestine parties to brilliant intuitions, from decisive encounters to taking risks, Winter has built the careers of Justice, Cassius and&nbsp;DJ Mehdi, less out of entrepreneurial concern rather than driven by the desire to share his discoveries - that's how loving the music means wanting to share it with as many people as possible.
Julia Pialat, who went to meet the protagonists, recounts an intoxicating scene of a whole world that seems very distant today, these crazy nights, from wild swerves to sometimes melancholy dawns. &nbsp;A world all to himself, <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/music/should-you-see-this-new-documentary-devoted-to-david-bowie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Bowie</a> was not easily tamed: his extraordinary ability to play with codes, to change skin faster than a snake ("a snake can change skin as many times as he wants, but it's always the same snake&rdquo; said Nick Cave in essence, about something completely different&hellip;), to adopt other personalities, according to the projects, his discoveries, his bulimia for educated aesthete (certainly, he was one of the most educated and curious &ldquo;pop stars&rdquo; of his generation). It was sometimes complicated to discern what, with him, was a pose or a sincere gesture. In <a href="https://gm-editions.com/produit/very-good-bowie-trip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Very Good Bowie Trip</a> , the fascinating book adapting his podcast broadcast last summer on France Inter, Michka Assayas agrees from the preamble. This " particular form of madness " he wanted to immerse himself in this disconcerting work between <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFHC6t13hi0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">xxl success</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZscv36UUHo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sidesteps</a>. In his formidable and very personal Very Good Trip, an intimate history of music (with Maud Berthomier, GM Editions, 2022), Assayas unfolds the story, writing as close as possible to the epidermis of music and his extraordinary life, the artist in the form of origami. Returning to his family background, resuming his interviews, which are always fascinating, even in their games of illusions and their smoke screens, and, above all, to his music, his incredible appetite for new adventures. We close this book even more fascinated by this musician who made his nectar from the most unexpected inspirations - kabuki theatre - icons of his time - Warhol, Dylan -&nbsp; discoveries which today have joined the imagination,&nbsp; Jean Genet, The Velvet Underground, free jazz, Scott Walker. Inventing new forms, adventurous, not necessarily always conclusive (by his own admission: the lucidity with which he analyzes his amazing past) and new ways to consider the very idea of ​​pop. Without taking anything away from her own&nbsp; genius, watching <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/music/lana-del-rey-best-fashion-moments-grammys-lyrics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lana del Rey</a> build her discography in complete freedom is similar to Bowie's approach. &nbsp;
Fran&ccedil;ois Gorin has made a striking portrait of one of his models, Scott Walker, in a story precisely a question of surveying new frontiers: by following the trace of what led Walker to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZTS9H-l5qQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">star destiny preformatted</a> to a life resolutely on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJzTWk6bSw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">margins of comfort</a>. Following the discovery of his subject's work, Gorin, a precious stylist (that is to say, rare, no superfluous coquetry in his writing), captures the slow movements of the evolution of a creative living organism with tact. To explore Walker's discography is to visit eruptive volcanoes, creaking glaciers, luminescent caves, those great ocean depths where gargoyle fish flash, in short, it's not easy, but few experiences are as exhilarating.
If we selected these three books, it is because each offers a fair reflection of this unstoppable formula of Kurt Vonnegut: " the music will still be wonderful. &raquo;
Julia Pialat: Ed Banger Records. A history of French electronic music. (Editions S&eacute;guier, 448 pages, 22.90 euros)
Fran&ccedil;ois Gorin: Scott Walker* Chronicle of an Obsession (Editions Le Boulon, 172 pages, &euro;18)
Michka Assayas: Very Good Bowie Trip (GM Editions, 176 pages, &euro;20)

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