Mina Agossi

The French Scene: Part 5

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 9, 2021

Our stash of exciting recent and upcoming releases was replete with great new music from France so we had to devote to it a whole section of this week's show. Dive into large and small ensemble music of unbounded creativity and multiple influences. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Mina Agossi & Age 7 “All Spontaneous" All Spontaneous -Single (Alchimie) 0:16 Host talks 3:57 The Volunteered Slaves “Astronaef" ...

Mina Agossi: Red Eyes

by C. Michael Bailey
May 12, 2012

The French Classical Naive label continues its campaign into jazz with Mina Agossi's Red Eyes. Her second recording for the label after 2010's Just Like A Lady, Red Eyes finds the French singer staking out her rightful claim on what only can be described as the furthest molecule on the cutting edge of jazz vocals, before everything turns to infinity. While it is true that Agossi's vocal style still colors within the lines of conventional jazz wisdom, she erases those ...

Mina Agossi: Well You Needn't

by Chris May
March 14, 2006

Since her emergence on the Parisian music scene in the late 1990s, French/Beninoise singer Mina Agossi has polarised opinion sharply. Her style, a startling one-off which combines the caned and the languid with the intensely dramatic, infuriates as many people as it excites. Agossi is to jazz singing something of what Diamanda Galas is to torch songs... you're either going to love her or hate her, and she'll scare the shit out of you either way.

Well You Needn't isn't ...

Mina Agossi: E-Z Pass to Brooklyn

by Eric J. Iannelli
January 8, 2004

Recorded in October 2001, Mina Agossi’s E-Z Pass to Brooklyn has already been making the rounds in the Francophone world for some time, where at least one reviewer has lauded the effort as “incroyable” and even goes on to say, “Chaque morceau est une surprise.” Another reviewer favourably chimes in, “jamais vous n’avez entendu quelque chose comme E-Z Pass to Brooklyn.”

“Incredible.” “Each song is a surprise.” “You’ve never heard anything like E-Z Pass to Brooklyn.” Bold statements, ...

'Quirky and Daring' French-African Singer Mina Agossi Returns to Us in Support of New Album

Source: Now Forward Music
August 23, 2007

Mina Agossi, the darling of the French jazz scene who has been selling out concerts in major cities across Europe, returns to US in support of her third release on London-based Candid Records, Who Wants Love? out on August 21, 2007.

The “gifted chanteuse“ (Washington Post) will kick off the tour with a special one-night performance at Scullers in Boston and will hit New York City (Jazz Standard), Tanglewood Jazz Festival, African Festival of the Arts Chicago, Minneapolis, and Columbia ...
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Mina Agossi Returns to New York January 2007

Source: All About Jazz
January 3, 2007

"Listening to Mina Agossi is like riding a motorbike through Paris - thrilling, beautiful, dangerous and very bumpy. Don't expect to come out alive"--JAMIE CULLUM

“Slim and petite as a young Diana Ross, this dynamic Benin - born singer from Paris could outshine them all"--LONDON EVENING STANDARD

MINA AGOSSI LIVE at I.A.J.E January 12th 2007.

After a successful US tour this Fall, revered French singer Mina Agossi returns to the US in January as she showcases new material ...
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