the dandy Bryan Ferry, for years the voice, "front man" and leader of the unforgettable Roxy Music. A singer who actually had been cultivating for some time this preference for soft delicate singing, if we only consider his solo debut (back in 1973!) with "These foolish things". But in this new album, "As time goes by", which resumes and widens the immortal theme of the movie "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, the atmosphere becomes even more subtle, delicate, almost imperceptible.

All the themes selected in fact revolve around the aesthetics of the Thirties and Forties, and are arranges in swing-like fashion in a perfect "Teddy Wilson style", and have a "blasé" quality that deliciously tends to "fané". But our Bryan brings them back to life with a real superb love potion, and conquers them with a praiseworthy delicacy, savouring them as a sommelier would savour a vintage Bordeaux. It's a sublime pleasure, indeed, both his and ours as listeners. A pleasure accompanying us from the first to the last of the songs in the album.