''Femmes d'aujourd'hui'' is the second studio album by

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, released in April 1986 by Pathé Marconi. Music for 8 of the 10 tracks was written by

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. The French singer

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also participated in the production of the album (including "Cœur en stéréo"). Charting from 3 May 1986, it peaked at #1 for two months on the French Albums Chart and spent 63 weeks in the top 30, most of them in the top ten. It was certified Platinum and remains Mas' most successful album to date in terms of sales and chart performance.

Track listing

#"La Geisha" (Jeanne Mas, Romano Musumarra) – 5:06 #" En Rouge et Noir" (J. Mas, Massimo Calabrese, Piero Calabrese, Lorenzo Meinardi, R. Musumarra) – 4:32 #"Idéali" (J. Mas) – 4:35 #"Lola" (J. Mas, R. Musumarra) – 3:44 #"Femme d'aujourd'hui" (J. Mas, R. Musumarra, Roberto Zaneli) – 3:34 #"Mourir d'ennui" (J. Mas, Joe Hammer) – 4:08 #"Plus forte que l'océan" (J. Mas, R. Musumarra) – 4:09 #"Sauvez-moi" (J. Mas, R. Musumarra, R. Zaneli) – 3:55 #"S'envoler jusqu'au bout" (J. Mas, R. Musumarra) – 4:43 #"L'Enfant" (J. Mas, R. Musumarra, R. Zaneli) – 5:22

Album credits

Personnel

*Jeanne Mas –

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– backing vocals *John Wooloff –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

("La geisha", "En rouge et noir", "Lola", "Femme d'aujourd'hui", "Mourir d'ennui" & "Plus forte que l'océan") *Benjamin Raffaëlli – guitar ("Sauvez-moi") *Romano Musumarra – guitar ("S'envoler jusqu'au bout" & "L'enfant"),

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

& programming ("Femme d'aujourd'hui") *Dominique Grimaldi –

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("Sauvez-moi") *Thierry Durbet –

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

, drum programming ("Sauvez-moi") *Walter Martino –

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("En rouge et noir", "Ideali" & "S'envoler jusqu'au bout") *Joe Hammer – drums ("Plus forte que l'océan")

Production

*Arrangements & producer - Romano Musumarra *Arrangements - Thierry Durbet ("Sauvez-moi") *Producer - Joe Hammer ("Mourir d'ennui") *Producers - Dominique Blanc-Francard, Thierry Durbet, Jeanne Mas ("Sauvez-moi") *Engineer - John "Puk" Quist at PUK Studios *Engineer - Dominique Blanc-Francard at Studio du Palais des Congrès *Engineer - Gianpaolo Bresciani at Titania Studios ("Ideali" & "S'envoler jusqu'au bout") *Mixing - Dominique Blanc-Francard *Mixing - John "Puk" Quist ("Mourir d'ennui" & "L'enfant")

Design

*Photography - Ennio Antonangeli, Tato *Assistant - Silvana Fantino *Cover design - Jeanne Mas

Charts, certifications and sales

Covers

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recorded an English version of the title track entitled ''Modern Woman'' for her 1987 studio album ''

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''. Nakamori's version was used for a television commercial for

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's mini component stereo system ''Private CD770D''.

References

External links

Official site
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