" Nouvelle Vague ( France ) is a project created by French musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux and a number of female singers. The group's albums consist of bossa nova covers of (primarily) new wave songs (hence the name "Nouvelle Vague"). The covers include songs by Dead Kennedys , The Clash and Depeche Mode . Each singer only performed songs they were not previously familiar with, to ensure that each cover would have an individual interpretation." -from last.fm [...]
Here's a fairly short mix, considering that a few songs wouldn't really meld with the others, and then the links for some of them weren't working anymore, and I'm too lazy to upload them myself! It's quality over quantity, in any case. I should probably mention that while the name of the artist just brings you to their website, the song title will get you the song... with all the long band names in this mix, it didn't seem as intuitive. Bossanova - Calvary - (MP3, 3 MB) This is something [...]
Here are three satisfying recent finds at the Teenbeat Records label site. Bossanova - Calvary mp3 Bridget and Kathy (Panax) - The Garden mp3 Mark Robinson - Perks and Presents (Remix) mp3
Dec 18, 2006, 4:17am
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More Canadians, eh? I've been sitting on Bossanova for a while now, ever since their debut album Hey, Sugar was released on Teenbeat way back in March. Please accept my sincerest apologies for hiding this Vancouver band's catchy pop sensibilities for so long. www.teenbeat.net www.bossanova.ca
(Bebel Gilberto, Berlin 17/6/06 by akimowitsch ) Stupid blogger. I wrote a whole post earlier today then it got mysteriously lost in the ether and here's me having to rewrite something I've already written. I always get confused when I have to do this, although it's not really a rarity, and I get confused quite easily... Today's Random Play All track is Bebel Gilberto's Mais Feliz from her 2000 album, Tanto Tempo. This album was purchased in a moment of pining for Brazil some time while I was writing a Brazilian Electronica [...]
The Knife @ Webster Hall 11/1/2006 (early show) Pass This On / The Captain / We Share Our Mothers' Health / You Make Me Like Charity / Marble House / Forest Families / Kino / Heartbeats / Silent Shout / From Off To On // Like A Pen The Knife "Forest Families" - Aside from a brief encore break and a moment at the very end of the show when Karin Dreijer Andersson acknowledged the presence of the audience by giving [...]
Chris Storrow (with guest players from Black Mountain and New Pornographers) is the one-man band called Bossanova , whose TeenBeat release, Hey Sugar , is confident and polished. Storrow understands where his songs want to go, and he helps them get there - the guitar and synth are controlled and measured, but the songs are given the liberty to escalate and erupt, punctuated with piercing rhythms, as in In The Immortal Words Of You . Nothing is forced, and nothing wanders. Everything flows, and that timeless voice is just right for the [...]
Fujiya & Miyagi are not Japanese, but British -- though like France's Colder , they sound German. Their new album, Transparent Things , is this year's model of motorik Krautrock precision. Fujiya & Miyagi - Cassettesingle --- Bossanova is not a bossa nova band; it's the alias of Vancouver's Chris Torrow, a well-connected indie-rocker with members of The New Pornographers [...]
(Photo by eyecatcher ) Claudia Telles is not what you would call representative of the Brazilian electronica scene. As daughter of Sylvia Telles , one of Brazil's biggest bossa nova stars, she's inherited the baton of the cantaro, the pop singer, the Brazilian icon. Generally speaking, she's not particularly interesting, which sounds kind of harsh, but really her music is fairly ordinary pop with a little samba beat every now and then. The track here though, is more interesting. Originally by Tom Jobin , Samba De Uma Nota Só (One-Note [...]
This, this is great. For You Can Call Me Betty's 100th post, I can sit here just in my shorts it's so hot, the football on the telly right next to me, and I get to post about Brazil. As football posts go, it doesn't get much more exciting: in the words of Mugatu, they're so hot right now - Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Adriano and, yes, Fred made the squad, the samba boys are still (as every year) the hottest property in football - I wish I could incoporate Ronaldinho's band in there, but try as I might, they're too busy [...]
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 were one of those classic groups of the Sixties who seem very much a part of that time, much like their labelmates The Tijuana Brass. (Trivia note: Herb Alpert ended up marrying Lani Hall, the original lead singer for Brasil '66.) Although Mendes based the sound on authentic Brazilian music, it was a lot more like Martin Denny than Stan Getz . Ah, but what is authenticity? Recall that in the early Fifties, Brazilian musicians like Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto were influenced by [...]
Daily Tracks will return to normal tomorrow, but I wanted to tell you all about this great album I just got. Last Friday (August 26), Dailysonic ran a piece about a french band called Nouvelle Vague who do bossa nova covers of new wave songs. Now, I know what you're thinking... and you couldn't be more wrong. These versions of some truly classic tunes are absolutely amazing. I went to the band's site and found that they didn't offer any free downloads, but had a flash player where you could [...]
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