A video for the track La forêt, a song from Bénabar's most recent album Inspiré de faits réels.
The clip, a tasteful black and white affair, covers the singer's recent tour.
Inspiré de faits réels was released in August last year, following his Bénéfices du doute collection from 2011. The singles Paris By Night and Le Regard preceded its release.
Bénabar is one of the contemporary singer songwriters in France whose influence by traditionla Chanson style is the most explicit.
Since the release of his 1997 debut La p'tite monnaie, he's had four platinum albums in France and won a Victoires de la Musique award for Best male artist in 2007.
He's got live dates around France over the next few months, with festival dates over the summer.
Gesaffelstein is no stranger to this blog, the DJ producer known to friends and family as Mike Lévy has worked with the likes of Moby, Phoenix and Lana Del Rey as well as Arnaud Rebotini, Zombie Zombie and Justice.
He also produced two tracks on Kanye West's 2013 Yeezus album, and relased his own debut album Aleph the same year.
There are also two remixes of the new track, and I'm certain more will appear before too long.
Last month saw the release of the track Glory, a collaboration with M83 for the soundtrack of a short film. The track featured on EMIC an Interstellar Time Capsule Film, a short film based n some of the ideas in the hot film Interstellar.
M83 is of course a band led by French artist Anthony Gonzalez, whose work has shared the futuristic themes that are present in Jarre's work, and whose work has increasingly featured in film soundtracks, an area where Jarre's career began.
Jarre's last release was the Essentials & Rarities collection from 2011. Prior to that a re-recording of Oxygène, released to mark the iconic album's 30th anniversary was his last studio album.
His most recent album of new material was 2007's Téo & Téa, a top ten release in France.
To say the new material is long-awaited by fans is probably something of an understatement, and his choice of collaborators has so far been an inspired one.
An appearance at the Coachella festival at the weekend saw Stromae appear with US rap megastar Kanye West.
West appeared during a performance of Alors On Danse, Stromae's first massive hit track, The song was remixed by Kanye West in 2010.
The Coachella festival in California is one of the USA's highest profile festivals and the attention from Kanye West will no doubt raise the awareness in the US of Belgium's biggest export since fantastically strong beer.
Coachella is held over two weekends, and there were also performances by French artists Yelle, Gesaffelstein and David Guetta.
Stromae has recently confirmed more live sates, this time in Africa. He'll be performing in Sénégal, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon Cameroun, as well as a show in Rwanda, where his father originally came from.
One of the most striking clips of 2015 so far, with the track The Road by ALB.
The track comes from the Paris-based act's album Come out! Its Beautiful which was relased last year.
ALB is a project headed by Clément Daquin, who first realsed an EP CV 209 in 2006, and a debut album Mange-disque in 2007.
Earlier this year ALB was nominated for a Victoires de la musique award as the breakthrough act of the year, a category that was eventually won by Benjamin Clementine.
Tomorrow marks Record Store Day, when independent record dealers get some special exclusive
releases, and some much needed attention.
While originally a UK and US event, Record Store Day has in recent years become more of an event in France, where Disquaire Day sees a batch of releases and events including bands and DJs performing in shops.
France gets many of the same international releases as the UK and elsewhere, including a limited release of a vinyl Air single Playground Love / Highschool Lover, tracks from their score for the film The Virgin Suicides from 2000.
There are plenty of French acts getting special releases in France, among them is a seven inch vinyl by Aline of La vie électrique / Plus noir encore.
Breakthough act of recent years Christine and the Queens release a four track Ep featuring Science Fiction / Intranquilité / Paradis Perdus and Amazoniaque in an edition of 550 copies.
Etienne de Crecy has four releases, from his Super Discount 3 collection and Feu! Chatterton a limited 7 inch, with only 300 copies of bic medium / vierge.
The very wonderful H- Burns has an album of cover versions, with 350 copies of The Lo-Fi Series album.
There's also a five-track live ep by Jean Louis Murat.
The seemingly tireless Johnny Hallyday has a seven inch picture disc of the track Seul available, featuring an instrumental and an acapella version as well as the regular track.
There are a couple of archive releases by French electronic progressive legends Heldon , with Live in Paris 1975 and Live in Paris 1976 available on vinyl for the first time.
Elsewhere n the world of magnificent 70s French prog, there's a Magma 7 inch featuring the track Floh Essi, in a limited edition of 250 copies.
There are, of course, many of the big international names also with special releases and re-issues available tomorrow. Big names like Bowie, Springsteen and Robert plant feature among dozens of other featured artists.
These treasures are available briefly, so better be quick.
You'll find them, if you're lucky, in record shops across France on April 18. If you pick up a spare copy of the Heldon or the H-Burns albums, be sure let me know ;-)
Great to see Benjamin Clementine getting some exposure in the UK following his success in France.
While an artist originally from the UK his move to Paris established him as a musician, while living on the margins of society and busking for a living.
His unique voice and style saw him signed in France, and key gigs at the Francofolies de La Rochelle in June 2013 an at the Transmusicales de Rennes in December 2013.
This year saw him win a well-deserved Victoire de la musique award in February, following the release of his At Least for Now debut album in France in January.
That album has just recently been released in the UK, with shows in the UK in May as part of his European tour.
A video for the track La forêt, a song from Bénabar's most recent album Inspiré de faits réels.
