Autumn is settling in, and projects are following one another around our artists: summer concerts for Convoitise, new songs in the making, a collaboration between two of them… and, worth a mention, the piano lessons Hervé Dupuis offers in Paris.
And some very good news: our listening figures are climbing steadily, with +31% streams over the last three months and +104% over six months, which is more than double. Thank you to everyone who listens, shares and comes to the gigs: it’s all thanks to you.
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Hervé Dupuis · his piano lessons on rue de Rome in Paris
Hervé welcomes students of all ages and levels at 78 rue de Rome, Paris 8th arrondissement, for one-to-one, one-hour sessions. Classical music is the foundation, but you can also work on chanson, jazz, contemporary music or film music: repertoire, interpretation, sight-reading, harmony, improvisation, accompanying singers… and even composition.
€50 per session (€55 in the large studio, with two pianos). Hervé also organises concerts in Paris and summer courses in the Auvergne. A personal initiative of Hervé’s, which we are glad to pass on.
Full details · Booking: 07 68 03 04 87 · His music: hervedupuis.ylinks.fr
Convoitise · a summer on stage, and a live video recording in November
Jez and Enzo, as a duo, played these dates this summer:
- 10 July · La Cave d’Occitanie, Pechbonnieu
- 11 July · Rock in Lapeyrouse 2026, Lapeyrouse-Fossat
- 20 August · Château Viella, Viella
Next step: a live video recording in November, and it will be the band’s first video without Christophe, the drummer.
Listening and concert dates: convoitise.ylinks.fr
Solfea · new songs for next year
Since the release of her first album, Perdue mais heureuse (Lost but Happy), Solfea hasn’t put her guitar down: she has written new songs, which we’ll share with you in 2027. In the meantime, the album and its singles are waiting for you.
Phil. Guénin · “Tribal Dream”, an electropop series
Phil. Guénin has written and recorded new tracks, which will be released soon as an electropop series called “Tribal Dream”. See you very soon for the first listen; in the meantime, his EP Kaokosmos is available everywhere.
A collaboration: Solfea × François Junel
Solfea and François Junel have collaborated on the song “Chute prisonière” (Captive Fall). Two worlds brought together for the length of one song.
solfea.ylinks.fr · ylinks.fr/@francoisjunel
Music press review
💿 Vinyl isn’t slowing down. According to the SNEP’s 2025 report, the French recorded-music market reached €1.071 billion (+3.9%). Subscription streaming accounts for €553 million, and physical formats had their best year in 25 years: €205 million, of which €113 million for vinyl (almost +15%). Good news for fans of Convoitise’s King Size vinyl. Read the report
📈 Who dominates streaming in 2026? The Billboard ranking of the most-streamed artists worldwide since 1 January puts Bad Bunny in first place, ahead of Drake and Taylor Swift. A fun detail: Michael Jackson is still in 8th place, seventeen years after his death. See the Top 10
A legendary track
From time to time, we look back at a track that left its mark on music: its story, how it was made, its legacy. To launch the series: “Honesty”, by Billy Joel.
“Honesty” · Billy Joel
Album 52nd Street (1978) · single in 1979 · produced by Phil Ramone
A piano ballad, a voice, a lyric with no detours: “Honesty” is one of Billy Joel’s purest songs. Recorded in New York in 1978 for the album 52nd Street, it was released as a single in spring 1979. It reached 24th place on the Billboard Hot 100, became number 1 in France and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1980 Grammy Awards.
It all rests on almost nothing: a ballad in B-flat major, in 4/4, at around 80 beats per minute, carried by Billy Joel’s piano, a few touches of acoustic guitar (David Spinozza), Liberty DeVitto’s drums and discreet orchestrations by Robert Freedman. The message is a plea for sincerity, in love as in everything else. Beyoncé covered it in 2008, proof that the song hasn’t aged a day.
Learn more about the song (in English)
Listen to our artists
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See you very soon, and happy listening,
The Yellow Leaf Music team
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