Flore Benguigui & The Sensible Notes

The French singer Flore Benguigui, former vocalist of L'Impératrice, presents her new project, The Sensible Notes, at Sala Villanos, with a repertoire of jazz and chanson as part of the Villanos del Jazz cycle.

Flore Benguigui, the French songwriter, composer and performer, now leads The Sensible Notes following the break-up of L'Impératrice, the group with which she sang between 2015 and 2024. Her project seeks to revive and update the sounds of classic jazz and French song, with an approach that retains the elegance of traditional compositions.

The line-up brings the vocalist together with double bassist Pierre-François Maurin, pianist Charles Tois and drummer Maxime Mary. Together they have developed a sound that combines harmonies from another era with a contemporary-style production, supported by synthesisers.

Their debut album, i-330, explores the music of the first half of the twentieth century, with influences from Nat King Cole, Barbara and Margo Guryan. The title comes from a character in Us, the dystopian novel that the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote in the 1920s. The result blends jazz, chanson and electronica in a retrofuturist universe.