Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Alexandre/SOM is a regular contributor to FS. Here's his list. Emily Loizeau (no.4) is pictured. 1 Keren Ann - Nolita (2004) I could put any of Keren Ann album in this list. I've chosen this one because Que n'ai-je is maybe one of the best French song ever ! A classic. 2 Daphné - Carmin (2007) When I discovered this abum I couldn't stop listening it. The voice of Daphne is incredible. "Mourir...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Frans_S is a key figure for this blog. Without him, many tracks here would not've been posted. Here's his list. Pictured is Mareva Galanter (no.5) 1. Coeur de Pirate - Coeur de Pirate (2008) Suddenly there she was. Beatrice! A tattooed young girl with piano and songs that stuck in your head and heart. Deserves a place in the list, and not only to proof that there is French music in other countries...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The end is nigh! Well, the end of the decade that is, and whilst almost everyone is rounding up the best ten albums of the past ten years, why don't we? I asked several contributors and FS-friends to make up a list. I will post those lists in the upcoming days. Here's the first, by official FS-contributor Sky. (Pictured is Clare Muldaur from Clare & the Reasons, no.10) 1 Lina - Redevenir Modeste...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Sometimes, the French are even more French than anyone could imagine them to be. Meet the Citroën GS, star of a great little music video. The song is Un temps pour tout off Vincent Delerm ’s fourth studio album Quinze Chansons and the car is a one of those Citroëns from back when Citroën was still the weirdest and coolest mainstream carmaker in the world: a Citroën GS . A...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Me & the mrs and our little sprout are off to a sunny island for 2 weeks. So here's a Summer Cycling Mix, featuring mostly men singing about riding a bike, about watching girls ride a bike, about cycling through Paris and about speeding. This lickle mix kicks off with the theme-music used on Dutch public radio during La Grande Boucle, aka the Tour de France. Enjoy yerselves, back on June 15. Filles...
CR Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Is Martin Parr the first photographer to be honoured in popular song? French singer Vincent Delerm 's "Martin Parr" featured on his 2008 album, Quinze Chansons, and he is known to perform the song live complete with a Parr slide-show. While photography-inspired tunes crop up now and then (St. Etienne's The Bad Photographer and, er, Tommy Steele's Flash, Bang, Wallop for example) we can't...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 02/19/2009
She sang with Jerome Minière, with Vincent Delerm, and on her second album there are some songs in French too ( here , and here too). On the upcoming third album no French songs, alas. But I got hold of this new song, written with Patrick Watson, that is really beautiful and I think y'all shouls hear. Lhasa de Sela's voice is really something, it's beyond melancholy. The strings of your heart...
Alicia l'Américaine (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
A rough translation of an excerpt from Ma grand-mère avait les mêmes by Philippe Delerm, his latest collection of short essays. I don't believe there's an English version out yet, but I know other works of his have been translated....
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
'Un Tacle De Patrick Vieira N'est Pas Une Truite En Chocolat'. There's only one French singer who can come up with such a songtitle, and that's Vincent Delerm . The lazy-voiced singer disappointed with his cover-collection Favourite Songs, but is back with a vengeance with a couple of beautifully arranged tracks on his new cd Quinze Chansons. I have little info on the album (French bio here ), so...
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...
France24 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2007
Olivia Ruiz, Ayo, Anaïs, Diam's, Vincent Delerm, Katerine, Grand Corps Malade... These are some of the young French acts nominated for the 22nd 'Victoire de la Musique', taking place Saturday in Paris.
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