The ten best French albums (not necissarily from France, but songs sung in French) (mostly) were round up by ten ( twelve , actually) people. You might have checked out the websites of the artists. Here are songs from the ten (twelve, actually) Number One choices. Here's to another ten years of great French music! Lina - Redevenir Modeste (2003) ( Sky's top ten) Coralie Clément - Salle des pas perdus (2002) ( Guuzbourg's top ten) Arno - Lola, etc. (2002) ( Maks' [...]
With her album L'Idéal (2008) Barbara Carlotti showed us a more sunny side of herself than with Les Lys Brisés (2006) did. Less folky, less sixties, but she kept her elegant and yet passionate ability of writing frivolous songs that stick. Pour La Nature was recorded for L'Idéal, but was also approved by Guuzbourg, as it appeared on Filles Fragiles 2 . The song sounds fresh, has trumpets, handclaps (!), yes you'd almost say Carlotti became danceable. Well that's probably one step too far, but Carlotti - the most sophisticated fille fragile - did record the most [...]
De Franse taal. Dit zeer erbarmelijke romaanse jargon, deze ergste verminking van Latijnse woorden, deze taal die tegen haar oudere en veel edeler zuster, het Italiaans, met eerbied zou moeten opkijken, deze taal die de afschuwelijke nasale klanken en , on , un als exclusief eigendom heeft, evenals het hikachtige onuitsprekelijk weerzinwekkende accent op de laatste lettergreep, terwijl alle andere talen de zachte rustgevende lange voorlaatste lettergreep hebben; deze taal die geen metrum kent maar waarin alleen het rijm, en wel meestal op é of on , de vorm van de poëzie bepaalt [...]
Tracklist: 01. L'idéal 02. Changement de saison 03. Pour la nature 04. Mademoiselle Opossum 05. Bête farouche 06. Le chant des sirènes 07. Vous dansiez 08. Ici 09. Kisses 10. La lettre - Avec la participation de Patrick Watson 11. Les femmes en zibeline Genre: Folk/Pop/Singer Songwriter Website: Myspace | Buy! Release Date: 2008-03-25 Label: Beggars/4AD French folk singer songwriter Barbara Carlotti has written a good collection [...]
The new stuff: I already posted about the new Julien Clerc album, co-produced by B.Biolay, who also co-wrote some songs. There's a superspecial edition of Où s'en vont les avions?, with an extra dvd, postcards and yes, a piece of paper you can fold into an airplane. On this album you find the JC-version of Déranger Les Pierres, a song Julien worte with Carla Bruni, the latter recorded it solo for her album. The duet is here . Almost together with the fantastic Divinidylle Tour-cd/dvd by Vanessa Paradis (the collector's edition is breathtakingly beautiful), [...]
Barbara Carlotti : L'idéal (Beggars / 4AD) For sure, Barbara Carlotti has a very unique place under the sun of 4AD catalog and seing her standing besides the likes of Blonde Redhead and...Scott Walker is quite an hallucinating affair... For this second full-length, the list of collaborations is again at the cutting edge, a sort of golden rule for the French demoiselle, especially on the musical point of view : Jean-Philippe Verdin ( Readymade FC ) at production and keyboards, Mehdi Zannad (from the lovely Fugu ) for strings [...]
De la musique en VF. Des notes hexagonales et les mots embrassés par notre langue. • PONI HOAX Myspace Ce sont cinq garçons parisiens bien habillés. Des manteaux disco, des couvre-chefs pop, des gabardines électro... Un dressing bourré de savoir-faire et de belles intentions sonore. L'élégante garde-robe des PONI HOAX se retrouve donc dans leur deuxième album "Images of Sigrid" (@Tigersushi Rec.). Encensés par la "belle presse" faiseuse de Gloire (les inrocks, Technikart...) avec - malheureusement - des montagnes d'adjectifs ennuyeux ("groupe génial", "épique", "voix grandiloquente du chanteur"...), leur dernier [...]
Went to Paris yesterday (to interview her ), and not only did I buy a bunch of cd's (like this compilation), I also got a promo of the new Barbara Carlotti album! It won't be out until the end of March, but you can already save up for tis a beauty! Breezy, folky, danceable even, and beautiful. An example of that beauty is La Lettre, for which cool-voiced Barbara (pictured) got help from Canadian eccentric Patrick Watson . Another exclusive is a sexy song from the upcoming album by The Lovers [...]
Coming Monday April 30th, Holland will be totally orange because we celebrate our royals during Queen's Day . On that same day in London, at St Giles-in-the-Fields church near Tottenham Court Road, there will be a fundraising event to keep Resonance FM in the air. This radiostation has probably the best French music show ever in their roster, Rockfort . To keep 'm both up & about, none other than yeye-icon Gillian Hills (in collaboration with guitarist Olivier Mellano, who worked with Dominique A.), as well as Barbara Carlotti , Mademoiselle and [...]
(Click here to watch video from YouTube.) Emilie Simon wants to buy a boy flowers. Who am I to argue? This song is from her first disc, Emilie Simon . Barbara Carlotti returns the favor with her version of the Zombies "A Rose For Emily" from her beautiful disc, Les Lys [...]
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