Back to Basics 001 - Real Life (2015)

What happens when a native of Juvisy, a pleasant spot in the Parisian suburbs, decides to move out to the countryside — surrounded by cows, calves and pigs? At the very least, it’s culture shock! He’ll have to learn to speak the native patois, discover the effects of the local liquor and, above all, learn to change his city ways of thinking. From this real-life experience, Manu Larcenet and Ferri have produced one of the most joyous and vibrant albums of the year — if not the decade.
One day, Manu and Mariette decided they’d had enough of their crumbling suburb. So they headed off to live in Ravenelles: 89 inhabitants, one butcher and one baker, a produce shop, a drugstore and a tobacconist.
At first, it seemed like another planet. Manu regularly called his friend
Rachid to hear the latest news from the bustling city, the cat