That Brisa Roch?'s sixth album would become a very personal affair was already suggested by the title. With "Father", the American goes back to her roots, both thematically and musically, with her adopted home in Paris. The singer and songwriter was born with music: Roch? spent her childhood in seclusion in the mountains of California. Her mother, an artist herself, loved folk and her daughter sang in the children's choir at an early age. But the album is dedicated to her father, to whom she moved at the age of 16, but who died soon afterwards. Urban sounds came into her life with him, later jazz and still later the fascination for the French metropolis in which she lives today predominantly. "Father" is partly made there, but partly also in California, an album between the worlds that are connected by the life of this extraordinary artist. The songs have been refined by no less than John Parish, whose albums with PJ Harvey are just one of many points of reference. If Dean Moriarty, the hero of Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road", had a daughter, she would have recorded exactly this album.
