
Les Grands Espaces, Isa Boulay's new album , is produced by Benjamin Biolay. He plays various instruments, most notably organ and trumpet on the Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra-cover Summer Wine. And yes, Biolay takes on the Hazlewood-role of the silver spurred cowboy who's seduced by the 'strawberries, cherries and an angel's kiss in spring'. Biolay, singing in English. Not for the first time, but hopefully this is where it ends. I don't mind Frenchies singing in English, but Ben sounds like a comedian . Try for yourself via this streaming service. The Bio-Boulay-duet aside (Isa's team up [...]

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On m'a taggé! Ça fait un petit moment que j'attendais ça et c'est Jody de When You Awake qui m'a réservé cet honneur - je l'en remercie. Le principe de cette chaîne tient en quelques lignes : List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your life. Post these
Il était grand temps de réanimer cette Cosmic French Music rubrique qui accueillit à sa grande époque des formations - Orouni, Toy Fight, David Fakenahm, (Please) Don't Blame Mexico etc - aujourd'hui en bonne marche vers le succès. Le succès, celui qui nous concerne aujourd'hui le connaît depuis longtemps déjà. Je vous parle de Jean-Louis Murat dont je me suis surpris à tomber en extase devant

Quote : "I remember I even liked his name, Charles Baudelaire. His name in itself always seemed very poetic to me(...) Like a lot of other classics, you practically have to be an adult to read him." Hear hear, Jean-Louis Murat . I tried reading Charlie too when I was a youngster (along with De Sade, all thanks to an obsession with Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho , which wore off eventually), and I still think his name is very poetic. Murat just released an album called Charles & Leo , Charles being Baudelaire [...]

Guestpost! Roger Grund on Jean-Louis Murat : These days we are being bombarded with superlatives: the Best of This , the Greatest of That , the Most Influential Artist of the So and So Decade , you name the lot of these pointless accolades. Music writers particularly seem to have an incurable desire to declare their refined taste in pop music in the shape of 'Top Too Much' lists, as if subtlety, nuances and shades of grey are extinct. But we know better than that. Music is [...]