Genre
Pop, jazz, soul, and blues. Recto Verso reflects the two sides of Zaz's personality that she wished to express: an intimate, acoustic dimension alongside a more exuberant, electric one, blending chanson française, gypsy jazz, R&B, and folk into a coherent and eclectic whole.
Release
Released on May 10, 2013, by Play On, Jo & Co, and Parlophone, under Warner Music France.
Production
Production was shared across multiple producers, each overseeing individual tracks: Ilan Abou, Kerredine Soltani, Dominique Blanc-Francard, Martin Terefe, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Sylvain Lux, and Thierry Faure. The album was recorded across several studios: La Frette-sur-Seine, Sysmo Records (Paris), Kensaltown Recording (London), Labomatic (Paris), Studio Hyperion (Marseille), CBE (Paris), and Little Big Sound (Nashville).
Reception
The album peaked at number two on the French Album Chart, with 44,500 copies sold in its second week. Its initial performance was considered somewhat disappointing in comparison to Zaz's debut, which had spent eight weeks at number one in France. The lead single "On ira" became one of her signature songs and was a staple of her subsequent world tour. The album sold over one million copies worldwide and reached gold or platinum certification in several European countries.
Zaz
Isabelle Geffroy (born May 1, 1980, Tours, France), known professionally as Zaz, is a French singer-songwriter whose music blends jazz, chanson française, soul, folk, and acoustic styles around a distinctive husky voice. She studied violin, piano, and guitar at the Conservatoire de Tours before pursuing a professional career in the early 2000s with bands including Fifty Fingers and Izar-Adatz. Her self-titled debut album (2010) — produced by Kerredine Soltani — spent eight consecutive weeks at number one in France, was certified double diamond by the SNEP for over one million copies sold in France alone, and earned her the Victoires de la Musique for Artiste révélation de l'année and Artiste révélation scène (2011), the Prix Constantin (2010), and the European Border Breakers Award (2011) as the French artist most played abroad. She has sold over five million albums worldwide and achieved gold status or higher in twelve countries.
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