After 'A Secret Garden', a particularly successful first album, we must admit that we were waiting for Mathieu Pesqué at the turn because after such a success, we wondered what the singer-guitarist was going to offer as a second opus, and how he was going to confirm the full extent of his talent, awarded, it should be remembered, at the Springboard of the Blues sur Seine Festival 2007.

First surprise for his second album, Mathieu is no longer alone but accompanied by harmonica player Roll Pignault, a songwriter who has dragged his gaiters and his ruinous lips in a lot of combos and venues, and not only in blue music. A diversified and rich experience that gives Roll's harmonic a particularly rich sound palette from which the duo has been able to draw all the luminosity in this second album.

The second surprise is the dazzling way in which Mathieu Pesqué goes from the status of solo singer-guitarist to that of musical partner, present and self-effacing at the same time. A role that seems to suit him so much that we even come to wonder how he could have produced on his own a first opus as magical as this 'A Secret Garden'. Man has his secrets, and his secret garden, for sure. And it is this part of restraint and natural discretion 'as if nothing had happened' that makes the man an endearing artist for whom you immediately feel something. Since 2007, the public has not been mistaken, giving each Mathieu Pesqué concert a warm and enthusiastic welcome.

Third surprise, but is it one, in fact: the quality of the album offered by the duo. An opus on which guitar and harmonica seem to have been made to meet, and merge, like a couple who meet again after discovering each other: the masculine of the harmonic with the feminine of the guitar. A meeting for a moment of magic, tenderness and shared energy. A sensual encounter that magnifies the adaptations of 'Last Fair Deal Goin' On', 'Lean On Me' or 'Born Under A Bad Sign'.

No doubt, the opus was not born 'under a bad sign' but rather under a very beautiful star. An enchanting, luminous duo that makes the blue star of blues music shine, up there, in the sky.