It is a holiday time in France too. Last week I wrote about the amount of tributes that appeared and someone pointed me another one that recently came in the shops: "Brassens Chanté Par...". Songs of the legendary Georges Brassens sung by others. On this album popular bands like "Debout Sur Le Zinc" and "Les Ogres De Barback", but also Aldebert and as the only fille Agnès Bihl . She sings one song on her own and one "duo" avec Aldebert, which whom she worked before . Most songs on the album are done with a [...]
Georges Brassens était un poète-auteur-compositeur-inte rprète français. Trente ans après avoir passé la pipe à gauche, il reste l'un des artistes français majeurs du siècle dernier. Derrière les apparences parfois simplistes voir désuètes de sa musique, on trouve une œuvre d'une rare universalité . Ses textes nous parlent que nous soyons ici en Europe, en Asie, en Afrique, en Amérique... C'est justement le but de cette compilation Brassens, Echos Du Monde qui sort aujourd'hui à l'occasion de l'exposition Brassens ou la liberté à [...]
Where Brassens meets Tindersticks. Or Divine Comedy. That's how I would describe Hypernuit, the absolutely gorgeous album by Bertrand Belin . With his dandy looks (check out this beautiful acoustic session), his storytelling and that deep, bariton voice that was made for ' sprechgesang ' and those light country touches (think Calexico, think Tindersticks), it's the album I've been playing to death the last weeks. So it's about time I wrote about it. Hypernuit is Belin's third album. Stories, mostly sad ones, observations, afterthoughts, that's what he's about. Also on Hypernuit, story goes he made up the [...]
(3 generations out ot of 4 of Lejeune guys on this picture : me, Jean and Basile) My grandfather passed away during the night. He was My father's dad. We used to call him Pépé (pronounced "pay-pay"). Pépé was great. He was a good and humble man. Pépé was a French teacher. Past students used to call him or went to see him in his remote house in Burgubndy long after his retirement. Pépé was a man of words. Pépé wrote his life in a book. Pépé loved to tell stories. [...]
Where ? : Around the Christmas Tree When ? : December 25 What ? : A Gift Who ? : Santa Claus Georges Brassens - Le Pere Noël et la Petite Fille Wikipedia And you ?
Leadbelly - On A Christmas Day ( buy ) (1944) Georges Brassens - Le Père Noël et la petite fille ( buy ) (1960) Have a nice Xmas dear readers !!
Georges Brassens - Le Gorille ( buy ) (1953) Georges Brassens - Le Bistrot ( buy ) (1960) Sorry guys i haven't got much time these days due to my work with Acclaimed Music's album poll, in which you can still take part (more details here . ) While I'm knee-deep (and soon chest-deep) into lists of favorite albums, here's an artist who will have at least 3 or 4 albums in my top 200. Brassens is the first thing I remember, musically [...]
Georges Brassens : Pauvre Martin [ purchase ] Great poet and folk songwriter Georges Brassens tells the life of Poor Martin (the most common name in France), an agricultural worker, and his resignation to his life and death : Without letting be seen on his face, neither a resentful or bitter look He turned over other's fields Always shoveling, always shoveling And when death called upon him, to work his final field, he dug his own grave, quickly, hiding himself, (...) [...]
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli - Echoes of France (La Marseillaise, French national anthem) ( buy ) (1947) Georges Brassens - La Mauvaise Réputation ( buy ) (1953) July 14 (called Bastille day in English, althoug we never call it that way) is France's national holiday. Tonight there'll be fireworks and "bals populaires", big balls for the people, generally held on every village/town big square or at the fire station (traditionally it's the firemen who are in charge of the dances). [...]
Telle une éponge carré partie chasser les jellyfish , je m'en vais chasser le papillon. C'est en effectuant ma ballade régulière sur les chemins de terre locaux que je me suis fait attaquer pacifiquement par plusieurs nuées de lépidoptères peu farouches mais tellement vifs et colorés. Peu habitué à croiser la faune, à part quelques corbeaux, faisans ou autres ragondins, les dernières chaleurs dues aux rayons de soleil offraient une température propice pour lâcher les ailes. C'est à ce moment que cette chanson de Brassens [...]
Georges Brassens is one of the greatest French songwriters ever, but unlike Serge Gainsbourg, not many youngsters seemed to acknowledge that. Until now, that is. We already had young Belgians Suarez do a GB-cover on their debut, and now Sandra Nkake is paying tribute to the pipe-smoking master. On her new album Mansaadi she does a very Camille-like version of La Mauvaise Reputation. Her album features one other French song, that is also very much about vocal power. Sandra is best known for her wonderful smokey-jazzy performances on the still brilliant Ollano-album (written & produced [...]
Frappées dans les pianos, pincées sur les guitares et les contrebasses, les pauvres cordes ne bénéficient que rarement de caresses de l'archet. Je vous propose une sélection de quelques chansons où violoncelle, contrebasse ou alto sont à l'honneur. Le contrebassiste de George B […]
Throw Me The Statue - "Young Sensualists". Few things are so suited to bittersweetness as pop songs. Scott Reitherman's bedroom pop - catchy melodies, uke and synth, part Guided By Voices & part Magnetic Fields, - wields a wistfulness that's sometimes breathtaking. "Young Sensualists" is pensive, honest, filled with the blossom-scent of nostalgia; the story of two pals, a mutual crush, and the way a friendship can simply end. It's not a warning, a confession or an elegy - it's a recollection, a witnessing, a message in a bottle (for the sea to read). On this track Reitherman sounds oddly [...]
Second guestpost in the Month of Male here on Filles Sourires is by Gerwin, on one of his alltime heroes Georges Brassens: Georges Brassens (1921 - 1981) is one of the great chansonniers of the 20th century. Although canonized in the prestigious series Poètes d'Aujourd'hui (Editions Seghers), he did not consider himself as a poet, he wrote his texts to be sung, which has been put in practice by various artists such as Barbara, Carla Bruni, Paco Ibanez, Renaud, Noir Désir, Damien Saez, Lofofora, Sinsemilia and many others. Several of his [...]
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