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1998 debut album from the French postmodernist duo Air raid every aspect of retro pop music from the sublime to the ridiculous in fashioning their sonic bricolage Everything from Krautrock inspired electronics to 1960s lounge music is incorporated into the work of Nicolas Godin and J B Dunckel Moon Safari...
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RARE amp LOST TAPES is a collection of singles by the legendary group CORTEX never released on album This album brings together previously unreleased and rare recordings such as Les Oiseaux Morts Alternative Take 76 released only as a Test Pressing Mary amp Jeff Fender Rhodes Version 77 recorded for...
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Marc Collin the creator of Nouvelle Vague never anticipated producing a fifth album for the project originally envisioning it as a one off tribute to post punk through bossa nova However the unexpected success of their debut album featuring unique covers of songs by XTC Public Image Limited Josef K...
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Sophomore studio album from Paris Nouvelle Vague Bande A Part was originally released in 2006 and just like the band s eponymous debut included bossa nova cover versions of 1980s new wave tracks The music is easy listening for the modern listener that is somewhat kitschy but nowhere near cheesy...
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The Nouvelle Vague project was born of Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux s desire to dust off and adapt new wave standards in a bossa nova style Over the years Nouvelle Vague has welcomed a host of singers on increasingly eclectic covers In 2004 they released their first album simply...
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Often cited as the masterwork of French icon and national treasure Serge Gainsbourg Histoire De Melody Nelson features actress amour and inspiration Jane Birkin arranger conductor and co conspirator Jean Claude Vannier L Enfant Assassins Des Mouches and a tight hand picked crew of top shelf U K session musicians...
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Françoise Hardy born Françoise Madeleine Hardy on 17 January 1944 is a French former singer and songwriter mainly known for singing melancholic sentimental ballads Hardy signed her first contract with the record label Vogue in November 1961 In April 1962 shortly after finishing school her first album Oh oh Chéri...
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Outside his native France the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one hit wonder lothario This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was Gainsbourg was an eclectic protean figure a Dadaist poète maudit Pop Artist libertine and anti hero...
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Bonnie and Clyde is a compilation of songs of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot released in 1968 to cash on the success of the song Bonnie and Clyde which is a duet between the two artists as well as the turmoil following their affair The compilation is loosely organised focusing...
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There s an ambition a conceptual depth to Melody Nelson that s incredibly hard to pull off but which Gainsbourg does completely It s very cool and its dynamic is genius It s one of the greatest marriages of rock band and orchestra that I ve ever heard Beck...
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French, Funk, Jazz, Soul & Funk, World
The track PSYCHOSE unreleased to date was recorded by CORTEX in 1977 for a film whose film was unfortunately destroyed in a fire
The original soundtrack fortunately saved has recently been found
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French iconoclast Serge Gainsbourg is best known for his censors baiting single Je T Aime Moi Non Plus and his 1971 concept album Histoire De Melody Nelson a psycho sexual drama on which he played out his infatuation with long term partner Jane Birkin Recorded with some of the cream...
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Vocalist multi instrumentalist Areski and singer Brigitte Fontaine are a legendary French musical couple that rose to prominence in the 60s making a series of albums that showcased a boldly unorthodox approach to the art of song Taken as a whole the 13 pieces on L Incendie stand as high...
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The odds were stacked against Je T Aime Moi Non Plus the song that opened the album Jane Birkin Serge Gainsbourg and which still defines Gainsbourg s career today Initially recorded with Brigitte Bardot in 1967 in response to her request that Serge Gainsbourg write the world s most beautiful...
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Academy and Grammy ® Award winning composer arranger Michel Legrand The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Summer of 42 The Thomas Crown Affair was not a household name in America in 1958 but he was renowned among musicians and a life long fanatic of American jazz and its players Legrand Jazz is...
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Having been part of the fabled Canterbury scene along with luminaries such as Robert Wyatt and Pip Pyle the irrepressible Australian guitarist vocalist songwriter Daevid Allen formed Gong with Welsh vocalist Gilli Smyth in Paris at the end of the 60s as France was in state of ferment The pair...
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Paris 1965 Pianist François Tusques laid the foundation stone of French style free jazz with his first soberly titled album Free Jazz Also in the team were several future key names of the French scene Michel Portal Bernard Vitet Beb Guérin Charles Saudrais and François Jeanneau all of whom honed...
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After Belgian electro samba wunderkinds Antena split at the end of 1985 singer Isabelle Antena immediately shed her cold wave crown for a sophisticated pop princess tiara On 1986 s Martin Hayles produced En Cavale echos of Madonna and city pop abound with a lipstick stain of L80s Euro dance...
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The first progressive girl group of the French Occitan language pop scene bring you folk funk sun baked bossa Coltrane jazz and their own brand of punky Dizco Rural against an untouched French Balearic backdrop spanning the late 70s and 80s If even the most assiduous of European record collectors...
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Pourquoi originally released in 1978 on French Crypto label It sounds like a new side of Cortex songs are mainly composed around the voice and the various keyboards of the band leader Alain Mion who also played bass lines on synthesizer Besides the band gave up the live recording to...
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French indie rock band La Femme is a conundrum an episodic band with various faces La Femme was born during the X years in Biarritz France when Sasha and Marlon started composing music on their guitars and recording it onto Garage Band Together they ride surfboards pianos and synthesizers as...
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Since the success of the first volume in 2002 WIZZZ has been considered the benchmark compilation of French 60s alternative pop It launched an unprecedented craze for this rare breed of disc featuring exceptionally danceable rhythms twisted sounds from another world and demented lyrics coupled with an underlying sense of...
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In the ever expanding universe of 70s and 80s French library music Sauveur Mallia holds a special place his career multifaceted work and the uniqueness of his talent have made him an exemplary figure in the unsung world of library musicians In those years a few of them often for...
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2021 repress LP version Comes with a four page insert Clothilde queen of the Swingin Mademoiselles Why Clothilde Why not that more star worthy internationally acclaimed Françoise Hardy or the more akin to the sub genre France Gall Because she s the most characteristic archtypical French mademoiselle that s why...
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This compilation of songs is not meant as a historic reflection of popular music of the Arab world It is a very personal selection of songs we grew to like at Habibi Funk It is music that historically never existed as a unified musical genre We think it s important...
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Limited five vinyl LP box set All Serge Gainsbourg s soundtracks for the first time ever on vinyl in a special limited edition 5LP boxset Includes some rarities including the complete and remastered version of Eau Ó la bouche...
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There s an ambition a conceptual depth to Melody Nelson that s incredibly hard to pull off but which Gainsbourg does completely It s very cool and its dynamic is genius It s one of the greatest marriages of rock band and orchestra that I ve ever heard Beck...
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Includes six page booklet liner notes English French Includes download code The Wizzz saga continues with a fresh selection of 60s and 70s rarities gathered from the unchartered nooks of the French pop galaxy Al Awni Bouarane better known as Abdelwahab Doukkali was one of the greatest figures of Middle...
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Printed under sleeve includes download code A pop star who turned his back to show business to become an independent artist steered by the revolutionary ideas of his wife Jacqueline in 1960s France these are the outlines of Henri Salvador s unusual musical career At 50 Salvador starts experimenting with...
