Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The ten best French albums (not necissarily from France, but songs sung in French) (mostly) were round up by ten ( twelve , actually) people. You might have checked out the websites of the artists. Here are songs from the ten (twelve, actually) Number One choices. Here's to another ten years of great French music! Lina - Redevenir Modeste (2003) ( Sky's top ten) Coralie Clément - Salle des...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
If you bought/downloaded On N’Est Pas Là Pour Se Faire Engueuler, the wonderful tribute to Boris Vian , you've heard Carmen Maria Vega . She sang Bourrée de Complexes, for most people (like me) the introduction to the versatile, energetic miss Vega. Her debut album (no title) is out now, and to me she sounds like the younger sister of Pauline Croze . Voices are similar, but CMV...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Trio La Gaîté are this years winners of the (26th) Amsterdam Concours de la chanson , a talent hunt for young Dutch chanteurs and chanteuses. Yves Duteil and Liesbeth List were in the jury - they praised the originality, freshness and upbeatness of Dafne, Sabien and Margriet. Who met on the steps of Paris' Sacré-Coeur, there they first sang an old French ditty. To be honest, I...
This French Life (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Michel Polnareff - On ira tous au paradis by William974 IF the sun is shining where you are, and even if it's not, here is a taste of some of...
Phronesisaical (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
Music from France has a big role in my life. There's so much that's so bad, there's so much that's so good, and then there's so much that's so bad it's good. I listen to both the latter two categories. But the list that follows is taken from the good category. And it's really nice stuff. For one thing, Brigitte Fontaine, one of my favorite French musicians, has returned after a lengthy and experimental...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 10/23/2007
Jeff Buckley and Wayne Shorter. Both musicians were highly influential on Pauline Croze 's new album Un Bruit Qui Court (out November 22). Especially on her voice. She likes the way Buckley uses his voice as an instrument, like a saxophone. The way Wayne Shorter does his soloing (on the sax). A L'Evidence is a song on the new album that was based on a sound she heard from a saxophone. I haven't heard...
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