Roger Grund on a Sunday to slash your wrists by: Ask around which day of the week is associated with death and in 8 out of 10 cases you'd get Sunday. It seems it is only a small step between rest and Rest-In-Peace. So it befits on Day of the Dead to revisit Gloomy Sunday , a song written originally by the Hungarian composer Rezső Seress in 1933. Be warned, Gloomy Sunday is a song of considerable power and mystique. The particular frequencies of Gloomy [...]
An album about Marxist heroine Rosa Luxemburg, 90 years after she was murdered in Berlin, set to urban beats and bird noises - yes, you have to be Claire Diterzi to accomplish this. 'The odd one out' when it come to les filles fragiles, first was asked to write music for a theatre 'spectacle' about the Red Rose, which culminated into a full album; Rosa la rouge. You can read a French interview with Claire and director Marcial Di Fonzo Bo here , where she explains that the thing she wears on her back on the albumcover (and the pic [...]
Here are the results of the Filles Sourires jury, thanks everyone who send a top 5. Fun facts: four albums in this top 5 are debuts; 50 percent of the top5-senders were girls; one guy put an album sung in English in his top 5, but added that is was sung with a strong French accent. 1. Coeur de Pirate - Coeur de Pirate. Your comments: 'And suddenly there she was, as could be expected from fille fragile, whispers sweet words in your ear, and the songs will stay there, they won't go away; they are [...]
gestern tummelte ich mich mixcdherstellenderweise und hörte deshalb mehrfach die großartige merri gail "unchained melody" singen, das hatte ich hier schonmal gepostet. und wieder fragte ich mich, wo ich das wohl herhätte (damals hatte ich gemutmaßt, vermutlich von dort , hatte mir offenbar aber nicht die mühe gemacht, herauszufinden, ob dem wirklich so sei (grammatikalisch grenzwertig, würde ich finden)) und diesmal machte ich mich auf die suche. meine vermutung von damals stimmte und was machte meine müden augen schlagartig überaus munter? da gab es noch viel, VIEL mehr! zum beispiel dies: [auf der seite kann man [...]
The first FS-fave that releases a new album in 2008 is gothic princess Claire Diterzi . Two years ago , the theatrically trained Diterzi made us all shiver with her very noir version of the classic 'Hungarian suicide-song' Sombre Dimanche (or Gloomy Sunday). Now, the former member of Di Terzi has made an album that is an ode to womanhood. Inspired by paintings and sculptures by (among others) Toulouse Lautrec, Turner, Lucian Freud an Van Eyck, plus Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares , Tableau de Chasse is not for everyone. Pretentious, sure. Intense? Oh yes. I love [...]
We are approaching the end of the Month of Male here on Filles Sourires. SOM has a nice take on the theme: "You make me feel like a natural woman". All the following male singers could have interpreted this Aretha Franklin classic... They are all men and assume to sing a song created by/for female singers. From a funny Diane Tell cover by Jérémie Kisling to the Claire Diterzi 's sexual healings by Franck Monnet . Here are cocky songs!! In this short selection, there's so much irony. [...]
2006 is coming to an end - and what a year it was. Not only did I become a father, I got the chance to spend a half hour in the presence of Charlotte Gainsbourg, and stare for 40 minutes in the steelblue eyes of Carla Bruni. Plus I dj'ed at a fantastic Gainsbourg-tribute in Amsterdam, and my ears got treated to a lot of lovely voices and chansons. Here's a roundup of the 15 best Filles Sourires-songs of 2006. 1. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5.55 Brilliant album (also called 5.55 ), great lyrics. Yes, [...]
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