Charles Trenet - La Mer
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
in post The Diving Bell and the Butterfly from A.M. 180 .
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Nyle Wolfe: Moodswings
http://feeds.feedburner.com/muruch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Moodswings is the debut solo album from classically trained Irish opera singer Nyle Wolfe. Though Wolfe often sends his voice flying up into an operatic atmosphere, the album features a variety of classic and contemporary covers. Nyle tackles material by everyone from Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet to Cole Porter and Linda Thompson. The opening cover of "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" isn't bad,...
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18 May Fortune Teller says
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Your birthday today: You are too fond of "taking a chance" and should curb this tendency, as it will bring you unhappiness and restlessness. You waste precious efforts and energy in following that desire. You enjoy music and art ; like children, and your home is very dear to you. You probably have plenty in common, then, with 1944 Rita K. Grate. If you can't find her to compare notes, perhaps you might...
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Happiness for a song
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
The musical revues that Théâtre Francais de Toronto frequently use to lighten their seasons are invariably crowd-pleasing charmers and Et si on chantant ..., which opened last night at the Berkeley St. Theatre Upstairs, is no exception.
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Guillaume de Chassy: Faraway So Close
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
On the heels of two highly-acclaimed duet recordings with bassist Daniel Yvinec (the latter recently named to head France's National Jazz Orchestra), pianist Guillaume de Chassy last year released a remarkable Piano solo (Bee Jazz, 2007). You see the trend: duo, solo--the band can't get any smaller, so de Chassy has released a record for piano trio...
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S4,E07: 4/30/07 (FRENCH-POP X-Long! Holden, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Air, Francoise Hardy, +7 more!)
DATA news (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
(SPECIAL EXTRA-LONG FRENCH-POP EPISODE!) First up, France's incredible-yet-under-heard Holden did "Sur le pavé" from their most recent album Chevrotine ( Amazon Import ). Next, from Paris, Domotic did "Tonsil" from his 2005 debut album Ask for Tiger ( iTunes , Amazon ). Then a staple-of-French-pop Francoise Hardy did "Il Est Tout Pour Moi" ("He's All for Me") from her 1965 album The "Yeh-Yeh" Girl...
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Music Thread #2: Nobody Does It Better
Law and Letters (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
...than ______? Go at it in the comments and nominate your favorite "covers" or "versions" of songs. I will stir the pot first by saying that I think the best version of Superstar is NOT Sonic Youth's, but Luther Vandross '. Oh sure, The Carpenter's is appropriately campy with plaintive female vocals on "don't you remember you told me baby," but Luther just takes it to the next level , with his drawn...
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Catch that Wave
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Guestpost! Sky says: Surf's Up! Gimme a board, messieurs. Pour les grandes vagues et les surfer garcons (et filles), here’s a twangy big-ninth-version of Charles Trenet's La Mer (by The Aquamarines ), and the most liquid version of Serge’s & Jane’s Je t'aime (moi non plus) ever heard, performed by Berlin-based guitarist and lounge expert Kahuna Kawentzmann – the German Kawentzmann translates as a...
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Charles Trenet - La Mer (Beyond the Sea)
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
in post Clearing your head from Are You Embarrassed Easily? .
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Movies and music
Perpetually Peregrine (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
My (short) workweek has been unusually bad, so I’m cheering myself up with streaming soundtracks on my Rhapsody account, particularly the film version of Sweeney Todd. Depp’s voice is unexpectedly smooth, with hairpin turns to the raspy and rage-filled. That, paired with Sondheim's masterwork composing, fits my mood. Unfortunately, Rhapsody won't stream or sell the soundtrack [...]
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Album: Fresu, Galliano and Lundgren
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/23/2007
Three of the most impressive artists of 2007 combine in a trio that avoids all the usual associations of superstar bands in favour of an entirely unforced and genuine collaboration. Over 15 tracks, including Jobim, Charles Trenet and a Galliano arrangement of Ravel as well as originals, Fresu's pure-voiced trumpet and flugel, the marvellously reedy sonorities of Galliano's accordion and Lundgren's...
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PPN: Shrimp With Orzo, Capers, and Currants
What Did You Eat? (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
Have you ever had a song that repeats itself in your mind, over and over again? That's my problem for the last three days. It's the Charles Trenet song, Boum, sung in French, that Absolut Vodka uses in their new...
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French culture under fire
BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
France's arts establishment responds angrily to an American columnist who said French culture is all but dead.
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Charles Trenet - J' Ai Ta Main
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 11/01/2007
in post click to read post from Locust St. . and itunes
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Upbeat
David Thompson (Free subscription) | 10/09/2007
A reader named Peetbox thinks this site needs more music. Well, at least one musical item usually appears in the weekly ephemera round-up, spanning anything from Charles Trenet and Keiishi Suzuki to Herbie Hancock and Doris Day (alas, not together)....
