MAURANE / STEVE HOUBEN / CHARLES LOOS
HLM NEW EDITION

IGLOO, January 1999.

(reissue, originally recorded in November '85 and remixed and remastered in April '98)

Steve HOUBEN (fl., saxes)
Charles LOOS (piano, kb)
MAURANE (vocals)

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, IGLOO re-released here one of his most successful albums, "HLM" (Igl 043), now titled "HLM New Edition", after a remix and the addition of one bonus track (8).

  1. Enfance (Steve Houben)
  2. Potion Magique (Charles Loos)
  3. Overloos (Maurane)
  4. Peccadille (Charles Loos)
  5. Incantation Pour Les Etoiles (Maurane)
  6. Morceau En Forme De Nougarose (Maurane)
  7. Savapapapa (Maurane)
  8. Les Chevilles de Valery (Charles Loos) (originally from the Loos/Houben LP "Comptines")

In French the word HLM is an acronym for slums. Here, the acronym stands for Houben/Loos/Maurane and the level of the music is 5 stars.
Houben (alto sax) and Loos (piano) are both graduates of the Berklee College of Music and pillars/enfants terribles of Belgian/European jazz. Maurane is the chérie of chanson française and currently makes a brilliant carreer.
On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the Belgian Igloo label made of a polished up reissue of this album a delight to the ears. (I.O.)

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