Spätestens seit Vanessa Paradis wissen wir, dass französische Sängerinnen grundsätzlich gut aussehen und unschuldige Texte ins Mikro hauchen müssen, um eines unser Clichés von "französischer Musik“ zu bedienen. Jeder weiß natürlich, dass das nicht stimmt. Doch hier im Popleben hat es noch niemand wirklich geschafft, dieses Vorurteil aus der Welt zu schaffen. Auf dem ersten Blick passte auch Coralie in dieses Bild - doch nach ihren Exkursionen zu Bossa Nova ("Salle des pas perdus") und schlichtem Pop ("Bye Bye Beauté") hat sie sich nun für Toystore mit ihrem Über-Bruder Benjamin Biolay in einem Spielzeugladen einschliessen [...]
Fin de la série yéyé. Bien sur, Polnareff et Gainsbourg en sont les merveilleux porte-paroles & musique. Mais il y a aussi ces deux aristo-punks "Dutronc et Hardy". Ici, ils chantent la responsablité et l'amour... [Download MP3] : ••• Jacques Dutronc :: Le Responsable ••• Lien 2 // ALT Link (YSI) ••• Françoise Hardy :: Le temps de l'amour ••• Lien 2 // ALT Link (YSI) [...]
Today's edition of MOKB/SIRIUS Blog Radio features a lot of what we've been talking about this week and last as well as some of the songs and artists our friends on the interwebs have been yacking about! Tune in at Noon EST and again at Midnight EST/9pm PST! If you don't have a SIRIUS account, I believe you can still sign up for a free 24-hour trial and listen online ... Left Of Center, Channel 26! We've got the first half of a [...]
Yes, the above photo is of Françoise Hardy; she is just one of the artist covered on White Hinterland's new five-song (two originals, three covers) French-language EP Luniculaire. I've been smitten with Casey Dienel's voice since here 2006 debut Wind Up Canary, which was only furthered by her latest project, White Hinterland's Phylactery Factory. Jazz-tinged, [...]
Yesterday I posted a couple of my favourite Ennio Morricone pop songs and today I'm going to post them again! Only this time, Questi Vent'Anni Miei has been rewritten as Funny World , interpreted by Ken Colman, and Se Telefonando has been transformed into Françoise Hardy's French hit Je Changerais d'Avis . Ken Colman - Funny World mp3 (available for 7 days) Ken Colman...who he? Well, he's a jazz singer from Vancouver more commonly known as Kenny Colman. He [...]
Françoise Hardy Je N’Attends Plus Personne
From: Comment Te Dire Adieu ( Virgin , 1968) Download Learn Home Fan MySpace Last.fm
I frequently get swept up in the music of a foreign country. This year, it's often been Japan, given my discovery of Pizzicato Five, but lately my fixation has moved west, back to France thanks to artists like Yelle and Carla Bruni. The latter started her career as a French and Italian model, crossing over into the music world before the turn of the century. Her debut Quelqu'un m'a dit was a huge Francophone hit, though its guitar-and-poetry-based follow-up No Promises didn't do as well. Her new album [...]
Free Blood have just released new E.P 'Royal Family' into the cosmos via Rong/DFA: It contains this marvelous Greg Wilson remix of 'Grumpy'. You can get the full E.P at Bleep . Free Blood- Grumpy (Greg Wilson Remix) (Z Share) (YSI) The relentless Skream has a new 12 available- You may recognize 'Heddbanger' as the lead off track from his '07 essential mix. 'Percression' is well worth your hard earned too: Both Vinyl & digital copies are available at Boomkat . [...]
mp3: El Perro Del Mar - Glory To The World mp3: Third Wave - Eleanor Rigby mp3: The Martells - Time To Say Goodbye mp3: Françoise Hardy - Suzanne mp3: Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind mp3: Trio Bulgarka - Mari Tudoro Today's post features all tracks that I've been listening to recently; all female voices from all over the place who are all amazing. Straight outta Gothenburg, Sweden comes El Perro Del Mar with [...]
All year long, we've seen all kinds of articles, films, tv-shows and whatnot about 1968. In Holland, the bottom line of that media output was: nothing's changed, really. There were some compilations (see here ), recently Chantent 68 was released in France. It features mostly EMI-artists doing songs from the past, and ofcourse the outcome is mixed. There are some ghastly covers (Gaetane Abrial schmalzing up Cohen's Suzanne, some Anis-guy butchering Otis' Sitting on the Dock of the Bay), some fair ones (Benoit Doremus II does an acceptable version of Dutronc's Il est cinq heures, Polar & [...]
Hard To Pin Down the allure of Françoise by Brittany Julious I don’t want to say it’s all about the bangs. But when it comes to Françoise, it’s all about the bangs. I think we’d all like to believe that our infatuation with certain celebrities has some sort of redeeming quality beyond the sun-kissed coif of Jennifer Aniston or the all-too romantic curls of Patrick Dempsey, but that [...]
Next week I am going to see Leonard Cohen play in London. This is a show that I am really excited about. The first Leonard Cohen song I ever remember listening to was 'Suzanne'. I was thirteen. I vividly remember how hearing these words and this music together instantly changed my whole world. Leonard Cohen has stated in interviews that the story of in the song was about an encounter in Montreal with the wife of sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, Suzanne Verdal . Cohen recently described the song as the best of his whole career. [...]
Ladies & Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to the sexiest French couple in the world... JACQUES DUTRONC ET FRANCOISE HARDY ! Two from Francoise: Francoise Hardy -- Je T'aime Francoise Hardy -- Je Pense a'Lui & Two from Jacques: Jacques Dutronc -- Les Cactus [...]
Playlist du 20 mars au 27 mars... Des groupes à tête de femmes et des femmes de tête, d'esprit, de corps.... la "RIOT RADIO" leur est dédiée. Deux heures avec elles, c'est bien trop peu, alors, volontairement, il n'y aura ni Beth Ditto (des GOSSIP) ni VV (des THE KILLS) qui prennent déjà beaucoup de place et de lumière (méritées) ces derniers temps. Il y aura donc des jeunes femmes seules (Alela Diane, Adele...) ou entre elles (Electrelane, The Organ, Tegan&Sara, Au revoir Simone...), des femmes accompagnées de quelques hommes (Siouxsie, Portishead, Stereolab...), des femmes [...]
Françoise Hardy - "je n'attends plus personne" This is like the grandmother to that Kills song . I have a French grandmother, and I really like to imagine her swaying to this song. All its chin-up resolve and grit, all its wholly awesome buzzing guitar and orchestral stabs. The Florida wind softly blowing through her silver hair, standing proud on her balcony, overseeing the Tallahassee skyline, thinking about the thousands of people her life has brushed, like when you let someone go in front of you in a parking lot, or when you wait [...]
The hipster fascination with French pop is no secret. Ostensibly, it's because Serge Gainsbourg, Sylvie Vartan, Jane Birkin, et al, were turning out good songs. But what we see when looking at the artists themselves is something deeper. The idea of "hip" has many definitions, but its most sought-after form is one immersed in the [...]
Il y a quelques mois je cassa mon téléphone, le faisant tombé de 5 étages alors que le jour et ma concierge se levaient, je compris vite que j'avais perdu tous mes numéros et les vieux textos que j'avais pris la peine de laisser exister, ce qui aurait dû être une phase de vie sans amis ou dépendant de MSN messenger à au contraire était le commencement d'une vie de nouveaux amis nouveaux car j'allais les redecouvrir. Je reçus des textos au fil des jours des : comment ça va ? ou des T'as un + 1 ? [...]
Photo: Lina Il N'y A Pas D'Amour Heureux - Françoise Hardy Poet, socialist and one-time Surrealist Louis Aragon likely wrote the refrain il ny'a pas d'amour heureux (essentially, there's no happiness in love) stoic and shrugging and what-can-you-do. But Françoise Hardy sings his scribble (and Georges Bressons' music) with thin skin and handkerchiefs. That the song's sentimental aesthetic [...]
The forthcoming second album from Beirut , The Flying Club Cup , comes out October 9 on Ba Da Bing. Like Gulag Orkester before it, the new LP features the work of Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost of a Hawk and a Hacksaw , but also benefits from string arrangements and guest vocals by Owen Pallett . The most obvious change for Beirut has to be the move away from the Balkan sounds of his debut - Club Cup focuses instead on French culture in the vein of François Hardy and Jacques Brel. I was [...]
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