Lydia Mayo

Two open hands, offering as much as they welcome, against a cosmic background, illustrate Lydia Mayo's latest album, entitled Ainsi va la vie... A title undoubtedly inspired by the health crisis that is overwhelming us. "We are living through something strange. The confinement has been an opportunity to focus on what speaks to us inside, to ask ourselves about the meaning of life. Let's stop being angry all the time, chasing what we can't attain or change. Let's rather take care of the present", says the soprano from Villeneuve. Barely two months ago, Lydia Mayo was on the bill for Messiah of the Bald People, an opera by the composer, also from Villeneuve, Eric Breton. It is he who signs the accompaniment and the piano improvisations of this new album where some of the most beautiful eternal songs are gathered, Kurt Weill, Piazzolla, Strauss, Bechet, but also Brel, Edith Piaf... Midi Libre - Published on 22/01/2021