One of Frank Sinatra's most famous live recordings starts with the words: „We will now do the national anthem, but you needn't rise." That could as well be the introduction to the new Charles Aznavour album, Toujours. Aznavour's songs had and still have anthem quality in a national sense, reflecting state, sense and sensibility of his country. Toujours mirrors even more: Un homme de 87 ans whose reflection still shows Charlie, his alter ego in Truffaut's 1962 Paris noir Tirez sur le pianiste , all the desolation, longing, and heartache, blended with the picture of the French [...]
Charles Aznavour? Wasn't that the somewhat square old entertainer in the grey suit you saw on dozens of awful tv shows all those years ago? Maybe. Aznavour also was Charlie, the forlorn dude in Truffaut's Tirez sur le pianiste (see pic) who smoked all those cigarettes like nobody had it done before, shared the bed with Michèle Mercier and Nicole Berger, and murmered some of the coolest lines ever to be uttered between love and loneliness („Silence is amorous complicity"). Sadness was also one of the keywords in his chansons, as well in Que c'est triste Venise, [...]
There aren't that much certified filles fragiles who recorded Christmas-songs, alas. There's of course Maryse Letarte (who recorded a whole seasonal album), there's the EP by Tricot Machine, there's the songs from FS X-Mas Project (Marianne Dissard, Maud Lübeck, Odile & Manou, etc), but other than that it's mostly very kitschy, Céline Dion-like. This duet between Axelle Red & Charles Aznavour is from a reasonable album called Noël Ensemble that also sports duets between Katerine & Anna Karina and Calogero & Zazie. And a few turkeys. Axelle Red & Charles [...]
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It's my own guilty pleasure to re-write my will every now and then. Nothing much to say in it actually, but nevertheless, music is an important part of it. One track that is in it for years now: 'The Carnival Is Over' performed by Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds back in 1986 on their 'Kicking Against The Pricks' album with only covers on it. A rather dull and annoying song in itself, but what Cave and companion Blixa Bargeld made out of it sounds as the most beautiful and thrilling Goodbye to me. The original of the song [...]
By Sweet Sound of Sunrise Charles Aznavour is one of the most famous French performers in the world, but it wasn't easy getting to that point. It took him decades of struggling as a songwriter and musician to become accepted by audiences. Born Shahnour Vaghenag Aznavourian in 1924 to an Armenian couple who had fled to Paris from the Turkish persecution, worldwide fame did not seem to be in his future. He dropped out of school at the age [...]
Dylan's covered the sentimental song twice, once in 1998 and once in 2009. We've got both.
Oggi, sabato e domenica torna uno degli appuntamenti tradizionali e più belli della nostra musica, il premio Lunezia . Tre serate di musica d'autore, per una manifestazione giunta alla quindicesima edizione. La prima serata si svolgerà a Marina di Carrara, la seconda e la terza ad Aulla (Massa Carrara). Saranno presenti e premiati, tra gli altri, Gianni Morandi, Patty Pravo, Ornella Vanoni, Mario Lavezzi, Mario Venuti, Simona Molinari, Eugenio Finardi, Angelo Branduardi, Massimo Priviero che si esibiranno tutti con brani live del loro repertorio. Nato nel 1996 da una idea del suo patron Stefano [...]
Dario Moreno !! Un nom qui sonne très italien et pourtant, Dario Moreno était d'origine mexicaine et turque. Chanteur à succès dans les années 50 et 60 , il était aussi acteur et passa le plus grand temps de sa carrière entre la Turquie et la France . Nous avons tous entendu l'une de ses chansons ou l'avons aperçu dans un de ces vieux films qu'on regardait gamin. David Arugete, de son vrai nom, est né en 1921 près d'Izmir en Turquie où il se fit remarquer [...]
Charles Aznavour? Wasn't that the somewhat square old entertainer in the grey suit you saw on dozens of awful tv shows all those years ago? Maybe. Aznavour also was Charlie, the forlorn dude in Truffaut's Tirez sur le pianiste who smoked all those cigarettes like nobody had done it before, shared the bed with Michèle Mercier and Nicole Berger, and murmered some of the coolest lines ever to be uttered between love and loneliness („Silence is amorous complicity"). Sadness was also one of the keywords in his chansons, as well in Que c'est triste Venise, a sentimental kitsch masterpiece [...]
KOBOLDS PRELUDE A L'ARCHET DESERT François Rabbath The Sound of a Bass Philips : 1963 FR, bass; Armand Molinetti, drums. We're thrilled to present a special three-part post about extraordinary French bassist and composer François Rabbath. His contributions to jazz have been widely overlooked both within jazz circles and by his own fans. His early recordings form a visionary [...]
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I first fell in love with Charles Aznavour years ago when I saw him in Shoot The Piano Player . I didn't know then that he was one of the greatest French singers of the latter twentieth-century. How could I know? In the film, he is so quiet, playing his piano. At 85, he's still performing concerts, and had appeared in over 6o films. Aznavour wrote "Une Enfant," a song as cautionary tale: a young girl of sixteen falls in with the wrong guy, he leads her astray, and she winds up "lying here [...]
Marc Almond - What Makes A Man A Man [Charles Aznavour]
Well, it's certainly been an interesting half year so far, eh? The centerpiece of a Springsteen album is a crappy cowboy epic, U2 fails to shake the world with their music, Dylan puts out a great album without playing the harmonica and the great American artistes du jour are ... Green Day. And now we have the curious case of Mr. James Osterberg, a.k.a. Iggy Pop, and his new album Préliminaires - strange days, indeed . If you think Iggy's gone all French jazz on us, you're just half right. Préliminaires does kick off with [...]
Bah voilà, la classe quoi. J'aime bien les cérémonies d'ouverture de Cannes, c'est court, sobre et toujours super classieux. Et puis Brian Ferry qui reprend "She" de Charles Aznavour , y a pas plus classe. Pour info, Brian Ferry est le leader de Roxy Music , un groupe anglais de glam-rock qui a marqué son monde dans les années 1970, avec notamment l'album For Your Pleasure (avec un certain Brian Eno au synthé et au son) sorti en 1973. [...]
Il est passé par ci, il est passé par là... Il est un domaine très intéressant dans la musique, chercher à retracer les influences qui amènent petit à petit à créer les sons que l'on écoute en ce moment. On se rend compte alors à quel point la musique n'a pas de frontières. Derrière les styles, les modes, on retrouve des chansons, des phases, qui viennent souvent de loin, très loin, mais que quelqu'un à su saisir au bon moment pour lui donner une deuxième vie. Par exemple, reconaissez vous la chanson [...]
There are several versions of Vanessa Paradis' new album Divinidylle . There's a regular cd-version, a vinyl version, a special cd-edition featuring a booklet with pictures taken during the studio sessions (this I have), there's a Japanese version featuring two extra songs, Emmenez-Moi and I Wouldn't Dare . Haven't heard that last one (if you have it, please mail it to me!), the other is available via iTunes and other downloadservices. Emmenez-moi rang a very tiny familiair bell - I just realised it's a cover of a Charles Aznavour-song. A very beautiful one, and [...]
Charles Aznavour - Idiote Je T'aime (mp3) Starsailor - She Just Wept (mp3) She just wept like I could not ignore / How can I act when my heart's on the floor? / She just wept 'Til her eyes became sore / I knew who she was but I don't anymore. Les femmes malicieuses [...]
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