Sapho - Train de Paris label: Torso year: 1987 side a: Train de Paris side b: Methylène www.sapho.org | www.myspace.com/saphodemarrake ch I remember buying this record. It was at the mythical, now defunct, Boudisque record store at the Haringpakkerssteeg in Amsterdam (Torso was the Boudisque label). I saw it and thought to myself "Hmmm, Sapho, French-Moroccan singer. How interesting." Video of "Train de Paris" .
I think I might have developed a special antenna for Gainsbourg-covers. Yesterday I was trying some SG-titles in iTunes, when up popped the recently released album by Albanian jazzsinger Elina Duni . She set her first steps on stage as a kid violinst, after the fall of the communist administration she moved to Geneva with her mother. There, she studied at several conservatories. Back in Albania, she starred in movies and plays. In Switzerland, she founded her own quartet, winning several prizes. She's even called the most beautiful musical surprise of the 21st century. Elina has a sweet voice, [...]
Another guestpost, by longtime lost pal Gerwinou. He revives our old flame Sapho : Sapho was born and raised in Morocco, she moved to France with her parents at the age of 16. On her first albums she makes rock music, but she soon finds her own particular style with the albums Barbarie and Passions, passions , in which she combines contemporary music with classical and oriental influences. In 94 she sings Umm Kulthums masterpiece al-Atlal ("the Ruins") in Jerusalem, and at least during the concert Palestinians and [...]
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