Après

Après is the sixteenth studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop.

Après
Studio album by Iggy Pop
Released	9 May 2012
Recorded	February 2010 – June 2011
Genre	Jazz blues rock[1]
Length	28:33
Label	Thousand Mile Inc
Producer	Hal Cragin
Iggy Pop chronology
Préliminaires (2009) Après (2012) Post Pop Depression (2016)

Background

Consisting partly of covers sung in French,[2] it was released on 9 May 2012 on Thousand Mile Inc[3] after the album was rejected by Virgin EMI Records. Pop said his record company would have 'preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks' and that "They didn't think they would make any money, they didn't think my fans would like it - very sensible attitudes for a sensible sort of person - but that's a different sort of person than I am."[4]

The album has been described as containing ″crooning vocals, Cole Porter covers, soft melodies, and an all-around sense of everything suave″.[5]

When asked by Bill Flanagan if he had heard any good records lately, Bob Dylan mentioned Après.[6]

The cover photo is referring to the figure La Conscience played by Iggy Pop in the French movie L'Étoile du jour (Morning Star) by Sophie Blondy.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
1.	"Et si tu n'existais pas"	Vito Pallavicini, Toto Cutugno, Pasquale Losito, Pierre Delanoë, Claude Lemesie	Joe Dassin	3:36
2.	"La Javanaise"	Serge Gainsbourg	Serge Gainsbourg	2:33
3.	"Everybody's Talkin'"	Fred Neil	Fred Neil	2:51
4.	"I'm Going Away Smiling"	Yoko Ono	Yoko Ono	2:40
5.	"La Vie en rose"	Louis Guglielmi, Édith Piaf	Édith Piaf	2:09
6.	"Les Passantes"	Antoine Pol, Georges Brassens	Georges Brassens	4:12
7.	"Syracuse"	Bernard Dimey	Henri Salvador	2:06
8.	"What Is This Thing Called Love?"	Cole Porter	Cole Porter	2:51
9.	"Michelle"	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	The Beatles	2:45
10.	"Only the Lonely"	Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen	Frank Sinatra	2:51

Personnel

Adapted from Discogs.[7]

• Iggy Pop – vocals
• Hal Cragin – guitar (tracks 1–9), bass guitar, piano (tracks 3–5, 7, 8), vocals (track 9)
• Steven Ulrich – electric guitar (tracks 1, 2)
• Danny Blume – acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2), electric guitar (track 9)
• Jerry Zaslavsky – organ (tracks 1, 2)
• Jon Cowherd – piano (track 10)
• Ben Perowsky (tracks 5, 9), Jerry Marotta (tracks 4, 7), Kevin Hupp (tracks 1–3) – drums, percussion
• Jainardo Batista – percussion (tracks 1, 2)
• Aaron Halva – tres (tracks 1, 2)
• Lucie Aimé (tracks 1, 5), Sarah Fimm (tracks 1, 2, 9) – backing vocals
• Tim Ouimette – horn arrangements (tracks 5, 8), horns (track 5), trombone (track 8)
• Lulu Gainsbourg – horn arrangement (track 2)

Technical

• Hal Cragin – producer, engineer, mixing
• Andy Tommasi – additional production, engineer
• Guillaume le Grontec, Sophie Blondy – photography

References

1. "Iggy Pop – Après".
2. "Iggy Pop Announces Album of Mostly French Covers". RollingStone.com. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
3. Jaroslav Špulák (25 April 2012). "Iggy Pop vydá album s coververzemi". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
4. "Iggy Pop album shuns 'humiliating' record labels". The Telegraph. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
5. Maren McGlashan (22 June 2012). "Iggy Pop: Après Album Review". louderthanwar.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
6. https://www.bobdylan.com/news/qa-with-bill-flanagan/
7. https://www.discogs.com/Iggy-Pop-Apr%C3%A8s/release/3713350

External links

• Après at Discogs (list of releases)