Nostalgias

Agnès Jaoui is a woman of many talents – singer, actress, playwright, screenwriter and Oscar-nominated movie director – and as a musician she draws on many cultures, especially those of the Latin world. Nostalgias takes its name from a haunting tango, and the Argentinian-born composer Fernando Fiszbein is Jaoui’s key collaborator, but on the album’s 14 tracks she sings not only in Spanish, but in her native French and Hebrew and Arabic. “I perform music that I love,” says Jaoui. “There are purists in each musical genre, but, for me, music is absolutely not about purism, it’s about cross-fertilisation.”