• Songs played
• Sahélie - Rodéo
• COLT - Cicatrice
• Alphone Bisaillon - Dessins désanimés
• Pierre Lapointe - Dans nos veines
• Aurus - Omni
• Xmen - Retour aux pyramides
• Fonky Family, Le 3eme Oeil, Faf Larage, K-Rhyme Le Roi, Freeman, Akhenation - Le retour du Shit Squad
• Yael Naïm - La fille pas cool
• Margane - Cette fille (version acoustique)

• Songs played
• Zachary RIchard - Ma Louisiane
• Les frères Balfa - Les haricots sont pas salés
• Wyclef Jean, Ms Lauryn Hill - Sang Fezi
• Melissa Laveaux - Kouzen
• La Compagnie Créole - Ba Moin En Ti Bo
• SOFT - Krim Cont la Gwadloup
• Malavoi - Caressé Moin
• Kassav - Zouk-la Sé Sel Medicamen Nou Ni
• Bisso na Bisso, Tanya St Val, Jacob Desvarieux - L'anmou pas méchan
• Jean-Marc Voky - Gou Kréol
• Danyel Waro, Emily Loizeau - Dis-moi que tu ne pleures pas

Not a concept. A feeling. And it turns out francophone music has been sitting with that feeling for a very long time.

It starts with Bashung singing Léo Ferré's "Avec le temps" like someone who already knows how the story ends. With time, everything fades. Not in anger. Just gone. Then it gets personal: Vitaa singing as a mother to her children, telling them to look after each other when she's not there. Time as urgency. What do you say when it feels short?

Les Cowboys Fringants wrote "La fin du show" while their singer Karl Tremblay was dying of cancer. He died in November 2023. Carla Bruni answers with exactly one minute of song: since my life is nothing, I want it all, and I want one more minute. Two very different artists. One conversation.

Paul Piché stops at the top of the stairs, hand in his pocket, checking what he's forgotten. Eddy Mitchell mourns the neighbourhood cinemas of Paris, closing one by one. Grand Corps Malade asks Kimberose where the best years went, and suggests we take them with us to visit the future.

And Moustaki's "Les eaux de Mars", Jobim's bossa nova masterpiece turned into an impressionistic list of fleeting objects and sensations. A hypnotic portrait of existence that surprises with every listen.

One hour on time. None of it wasted.

• Songs played
• Alain Bashung - Avec le temps
• Carla Bruni - La dernière minute
• Les Cowboys Fringants - La fin du show
• Georges Moustaki - Les eaux de Mars
• Paul Piché - L'escalier
• Emma Peters - Le temps passe
• Eddy Mitchell - La dernière séance
• Bigflo & Oli, Julien Doré - Coup de vieux
• Grand Corps malade, Kimberose - Nos plus belles années
• Vitaa, Slimane - Le temps
• FREEMAN, Pit Baccardi, Oxmo Puccino - Le temps reste

That means Souad Massi and Gaël Faye finding each other across Algerian folk and Rwandan-French rap, with a line that lands like a quiet punch: pain has no border, and blood only one colour. It means Koffi Olomidé and the Ndombolo rhythm that swept Kinshasa in 1997 and never really stopped. MC Solaar's "Caroline" followed immediately by Zaho's 2026 reimagining of it, with Solaar himself on the track. Thirty years between them. Still makes sense.

And then there's Le Classic Sound.

Every four weeks, composer Sophie Lacaze connects a piece of classical music to something modern, hunting for the thread between them. Tonight she found a very dark one: Purcell's King Arthur from 1691, a frozen spirit dragged unwilling from the snow, and Polnareff's Le Bal des Laze from February 1968, a man telling his story the night before he hangs. Three centuries apart. Same sentence. Same voice.

Free flow doesn't mean random. It means following the music wherever it actually wants to go.

Marie-Hélène, Cyril, Fannie & Pieter 4ZZZ Brisbane, Saturdays 10pm - Francophone beats from around the world

• Songs played
• Papooz, Saxa Groth - Repos
• Gildaa - Pensées diluviennes
• Chaton Laveur - La Source
• Souad Massi, Gael Faye - D'ici de là-bas
• Koffi Clomide, Quartier latin - Pharmacien
• Fonki Family - Petit bordel
• Catastrophe - Sauvons-nous
• Mc Solaar - Caroline
• Zaho, Mc Solaar - Comme Caroline
• Feu Chatterton - Le labyrinthe

Food isn't always what it seems on this show. Serge Gainsbourg turned lollipops into one of the most calculated provocations in French pop history. Ginette Reno sang about croissants that weren't quite croissants. And Jacques Higelin thanked the spirits for receiving him so well, then climbed into his coach, and just said: champagne.

From a Brussels rapper who turned a two-minute coffee stop into a meditation on the world, to a gypsy jazz guitarist who decided the only answer to loneliness was a steak with fries (bordel), to an entire song that is just a man, a day off, and an extraordinary commitment to eating.

One episode. Fifteen songs. A feast of double meanings, sticky pop melodies, and the quiet philosophy of a really good meal.

• Songs played
• Jacques Higelin - Champagne
• Stephan Eicher - Déjeuner en paix
• Charlélie Couture - Blues Gourmand
• Roy Eldridge - Une petite laitue avec de la mayonnaise
• Charles Trenet - Débit de l'eau, débit de lait
• Jacques Brel - Les bonbons 67
• Serge Gainsbourg - Les sucettes
• Ginette Reno - Des croissants de soleil
• Yoa - Matcha Queen
• ISHA - Un dernier cafè à Cergy
• Thomas Dutronc - Les frites, bordel
• Patrick Zabou - Agadou dou dou
• Sainte-Lucie - J'ai faim
• Oldelaf - Je mange

From a son missing his mother in Kabylie, to a father fighting for his child, to sisters holding each other up, to seaside holidays and the memories that stay with you forever.

• Songs played
• The berbere - Oh maman je suffoque
• Lubiana - Grand-père
• Idir, Patrick Bruel - Les larmes de leurs pères
• Clara Luciani - Ma soeur
• Daniel Balavoine - Mon fils, ma bataille
• The Loire Valley Calypsos - Mon gamin
• Mes aïeux - Dégénérations
• Michel Jonasz - Les vacances au bord de la mer
• Grand corps malade, Leila Bekhti - Le sens de la famille
• Hubert Lenoir - Fille de personne II
• Gino Quilico, Marilou - Je serai là pour toi
• France D'Amour - Mon frère

Because sometimes the stage isn't enough.

Jane Birkin – Di Doo Dah
Bourvil – La Tendresse
Sylvie Vartan – Comme un garçon
Évelyne Brochu – Une autre vie
Jérôme Minière & Karine Vanasse – Histoires d'espions
Jeanne Moreau – Le tourbillon de la vie
Émile Proulx-Cloutier – Aimer les monstres
Naâman feat. Marcus Gad – Soul Plan
Frédéric Lo & Michel Houellebecq – Ils chevauchaient le vent
Benoit Poelvoorde – Ma préférence
Daniel Auteuil – Si vous m'aviez connu
Brigitte Bardot – Un jour comme un autre
Jean Gabin – Maintenant je sais
Loco Locass

From the smoky intimacy of Jeanne Moreau to Houellebecq reciting over a haunted guitar. Tonight, the line between performance and song disappears completely.

• Songs played
• Jane Birkin - Di Doo Dah
• Sylvie Vartan - Comme un garçon
• Bourvil - La tendresse
• Jérome Minière, Karine Vanasse - Histoires d'espions
• Evelyne Brochu - Une autre vie
• Emile Proulx-Cloutier - Aimer les monstres
• Georges Delerue, Jeanne Moreau - Le tourbillon de la vie
• Benoit Poelvoorde - Ma préférence
• Daniel Auteuil - Si vous m'aviez connu
• Inna Modja - French Cancan
• Jean Gabin - Maintenant je sais
• Brigitte Bardot - Un jour comme un autre
• Loco Locass - Hymne à Québec

No theme tonight. Just music we love — and the freedom to go wherever the sound takes us.

Tonight we're moving between Amazigh roots and Belgian pop breakthroughs, between Québécois folk poetry and Paris cabaret smoke, between 90s hip-hop that defined a generation and sounds being made right now in Grenoble. That's what free flow means on Le Sound: no rules, just discovery.

Camélia Jordana — Que Ma Peau New single. Her voice carries Algerian and Amazigh heritage in every note.

Camille Yembe — Je ne l'ai jamais dit à personne The Belgian singer Stromae himself has praised. Finally writing for herself.

Vincent Vallières — À hauteur d'homme Québécois folk-rock at its most human. Songs about ordinary people, beautifully told.

m4uv3 — MORDUE Queer-core hip-hop from Grenoble. Loud, fierce, and completely their own.

Léon — Ça va pas durer Brussels-born, solo debut — lyrics about letting go when everything feels like pressure.

Alliance Ethnik — Simple et funky A 1995 classic that crossed the Atlantic and never left the dancefloor.

Sarah Toussaint-Léveillé — Dans mon cahier Filmmaker, composer, poet. One of those songs you can't stop listening to.

The Man Inside Corrine & Cabaret de Poussière — Comme tout Paris Paris underground cabaret. Piano, smoke, and 2am energy.

Muzion — La vie Ti-Neg Haitian-Québécois hip-hop about building a life between two cultures in Montréal.

Plus Jane Birkin & Chopin, because why not 

• Songs played
• Camelia Jordana - Que ma peau
• Camille Yembe - Je ne l'ai jamais dit.à personne
• Vincent Vallières - A hauteur d'homme
• m4uv3 - Mordue
• Leon - Ça va pas durer
• Alliance Ethnik - Simple et Funky
• Sarah Toussaint-Léveillé - Dans mon cahier (La musique me glisse entre les doigts)
• The man inside Corinne, Cabaret de poussière, Martin Dust - Comme tout Paris
• Jane Birkin - Jane B.
• Chopin - 24 Préludes, Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor Largo
• Muzion, Les colocs - La vie Ti-Neg
• Feu Chatterton - Un monde nouveau

One song. That's all it took.

A Tunisian-born Parisian who sang in English and conquered the world. A Belgian 13-year-old who broke Eurovision records. An American band who made the most Parisian song of the 80s — without being French. And a Daft Punk member who formed a side project, dropped one track, then disappeared forever.

Tonight on Le Sound, we dig into the francophone one-hit wonders — the songs that defined an era, the stories behind them, and the artists who never quite followed them up.

FR David · Chagrin d'Amour · Patrick Coutin · Blues Trottoir · Pink Martini · Sandra Kim · Kathleen · Léopold Nord & Vous · Léandre · Dominique Walter · Les frères à ch'val · Stardust

• Songs played
• FR David - Words
• Chagrin d'amour - Chacun fait (c'qui lui plait)
• Patrick Coutin - J'aime regarder les filles
• Blue Trottoir - Un soir de pluie
• Pink Martini, China Forbes, Thomas M Lauderdale - Sympathique
• Sandra Kim - J'aime la vie
• Kathleen - Ca va bien!
• Leopord Nord & Vous - C'est l'amour
• Leandre - Goodbye My Love
• Dominique Walter - Les petits boudins
• Les frères à ch'val - Mon voisin

After love comes the breakup. And francophone music has a lot to say about that.

Tonight on Le Sound, we're exploring heartbreak, loss, nostalgia — and yes, sometimes freedom — through songs that will make you feel it all.

From Jacques Brel's 1959 hymn to men's cowardice (his words!) to a tandem bike riding alone, from Manu Chao's bittersweet Je ne t'aime plus to the raw power of Mano Solo's voice that sounds like it's already survived something before the song even starts.

And finishing with something exciting — Brisbane, meet Bulle. She recorded a personal intro just for us. 

Tonight's journey includes:

Jacques Brel – Ne me quitte pas
Voyou – Seul sur ton tandem
James Baker – Fuis-moi si tu veux
​Manu Chao – Je ne t'aime plus
Babylon Circus – Nina
Mario Pelchat – Je ne t'aime plus
Christophe – Aline
Cali – Elle m'a dit
Mano Solo – Quand tu me diras
Lancelot – Madame
Gilbert Bécaud – Je reviens te chercher
Mylène Farmer – Je t'aime mélancolie
Bulle – [tonight's discovery]

• Songs played
• Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas
• James Baker - Fuis-moi si tu veux
• Voyou - Seul sur ton tandem
• Manu Chao - Je ne t'aime plus
• Babylon Circus - Nina
• Christophe - Aline
• Mario Pelchat - Je ne t'aime plus
• Mano Solo - Quand tu me diras
• Cali - Elle m'a dit
• Gilbert Bécaud - Je reviens te chercher
• Lancelot - Madame
• Mylène Farmer - Je t'aime mélancolie