Monthly Archives: September 2025

Wendy Martinez & Project Gemini

French films from the 60s, when cigarette smoke was considered healthy, clothes were tight and the eyeliner as heavy as the silences. It’s the (musical) source where Project Gemini’s Paul Osborne quenches his thirst. And where Wendy Martinez voice adds a lot to the atmosphere. Paul & Wendy were on this blog before (HERE) and now they made a new bunch of tracks.

From the bio: ‘Drawing inspiration from French soundtrack composers such as François de Roubaix, Francis Lai and Michel Colombier, as well as French female artists including Léonie and Laurence Vanay, these productions are a contemporary love letter to this sound, not a homage. Mixing psych, folk, chanson, and French new wave, it’s music that pulls you in deeper, with groove, grit and passion at its core.’

Listen to this spoken word track that bursts into a fine fine groove:

Terrain Vague

New single by one of our fave French duos Terrain Vague. It’s a gorgeous post-summer track. The golden slumber and long shadows of autumn are mixed in music and (French and English) lyrics.

Miramar & Saâne

Couldn’t find anything (yet) on the producer named Miramar, who released a second compilation with covers called Volume 2. Original songs by Hardy, Balavoine, Barrière and Brel. On the first comp, Miramar got help from Julia Jean-Baptiste, Loane Coste and Saâne, and the latter returns for this emotional rendition of Jacques Brel’s Le Prochain Amour:

Flora Fishbach

  • Posted on 22/09/2025
  • /Under Musique

80s style syntified pop sounds, bring ‘m on. Flora Fishbach has a very cool new single, from her recent album, that could’ve been a hit like Voyage Voyage or C’est La Ouate back in the day. But here, now, it fits in very well too:

François & Yasmine

When François Marry, driving force behind François & The Atlas Mountains, was in preparation of the Âge Fleuve album, he listened to a lot of river-themed songs. Like Take Me To The River by Talking Heads (or better, Al Green) and La Rivière by Olivier Marguerit. The one river-song that stood out, was River Man by tragic folkhero Nick Drake, he writes on instagram. I’m always envious of people who haven’t heard of Nick, for discovering his music, his legacy, is such a bittersweet joy (he died very young, alas, but he made at least three albums that are masterpieces).

Longstoryshort: François translated River Man to French, and asked singer Yasmine Hamdan to join him on his wonderful rework.

If you want more River Man-covers, I made a playlist with over 4 hours of versions.

Charlotte Cardin

It’s pop, sure. It has a firm beat. But it also has that voice. Charlotte Cardin delivers yet another very strong song, that makes you jump up & dance, and cry. Sad banger, anyone?

Pi Ja Ma

A song totally made for this blog: sweet, sensitive, sultry. Pi Ja Ma (aka Pauline de Tarragon) sings a song about the end of summer, the sunset, the memories and the tears that are part of the memories. It’s 18:37h. ‘The days won’t be so tender anymore.’

Vanille

Second single from the upcoming new Vanille (the Canadian Vanille, not Julien Clerc’s fille) album. DAMN FINE slice of soul & sunshine pop. That album’s gonna turn out very cool:

Célia Kameni

Gorgeous, intense live version of De doute et de joie by Célia Kameni. A singer of Cameroonian origin, who sang with all kinds of artists and has had a musical upbringing that made her familiar with anything between opera and jazz. Read more on Célia (in English) here. This is a track from her recently released EP, the only French track. She has an incredible, rich voice that aims for the heartstrings.

I heard of her first thanks to Italian groove collective Nu Genea:

She’s also the singer in this laidback track: