Adieu is the new single by Coeur de Pirate. Listen here.
See the making-of-the-video-video here, and here also
And, if you dare, listen to CdP in a very, very bland duet with one David Usher here.
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Caracol, Naif
Two new(ish) singles by non-French (yet French-speaking) filles. Caracol (Carole Facal) hails from Canada, was once one-half of DobaCaracol but released a very nice countryfied solo-record in 2008. Her new single Quelque Part is just out, and is featured in a movie. New album is out in October.
Naif (Herin) was born in the North of Italy, near the Mont Blanc and records in English, Italian and French, sometimes all in one song. Goûte-Moi isn’t a new track, videos from her singing the song date date 5 to 7 months back (like this one) yet it’s not on her album from 2010. I heard this one on FIP a few weeks back and it really stuck.
Caracol – Quelque part
Naif – Goûte-moi
Renske Taminiau
Dutch doll Renske Taminiau surprised the world a few years back by a) deciding that she didn’t want to be a doctor and b) making a wonderful debut album. Waiting to be told was the equivalent of drinking tea from a porcelain cup, sitting on a plush chair in a cosy, almost prissy room with lots of pink flowers. Music-wise, she related to Kurt Elling and Feist. Renske sings like she’s just been skinny dipping in cristal clear water – and she still sounds like that on her new album Move Me. On which she sings in French. A melancholic ode to Paris, with help from accordion and strings. I’d love to walk through Montparnasse with this on repeat on my iPod.
Here are two versions of ‘Paris’, the second one she recorded earlier and is a demo-version. No accordion, but still very beautiful.
Renske Taminiau – Paris
Renske Taminiau – Paris (demo version)
See videos of Renkse here, and here.
(picture by RVDA)
Lulu Gainsbourg & Scarlett Johansson
Snippet of the duet between Lulu and Scarlett, from Lulu’s upcoming album with covers of his dad’s songs. This is not the official video, this is Scarlett in a Moet & Chandon commercial (see here).
More Camille
L’étourderie by Camille, the first single off of her new album (see an acoustic version above), was a nice teaser. But Tout dit, taken from a sampler that came with a recent edition of Les Inrocks, is less promising. In fact, I find it a tad boring. What do you think?
Camille – Tout dit
(Merci Louis M)
Camille
The first track off of the new Camille album (posted about this earlier, here) was officially released this week – in French-speaking countries only, of course. Grrrr! But I’ve managed to find it anyway. It’s short, it’s tasty, it’s promising.
Camille – Etourderie
Gainsbourg tribute @ Hollywood Bowl
A Gainsbourg tribute featuring Beck, Lulu Gainsbourg, Sean Lennon and Mike Patton – if I wasn’t such a sweet, shy guy I definitely would’ve killed to be in the crowd at the Hollywood Bowl last Sunday evening. On Youtube, you can find a few excerpts. Like this one, and this one. Reviews here and here. A lot of very pretty pictures of Charlotte Kemp-Muhl, as I understand it one of the highlights of the evening, here. If you know of recordings of the evening (Beck singing Les sucettes!), please let me know!
Salomé Leclerc
As regular visitors of this blog know, Canada (Quebec) has A LOT to offer when it comes to gorgeous, very talented female singers. Coeur de Pirate, Marie Pierre Arthur, Catherine Major, Fanny Grosjean (of La Patere Rose, she will release a soloalbum!), Amylie, this list could go on for a while. And now there’s Salomé LeClerc. FS-contributor Maks was already infatuated by her (see here), I can assure you that you will be too. I’ve listened to a few tracks on her album (out September 6), it’s yearlist-material people. You must admit that first single Partir Ensemble looks and sounds very, very promising. More to come.
Salomé Leclerc – Partir ensembe
More Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg fans are spoiled. First there was a new video, now a previously unreleased track. ‘White Telephone’, added to the dvd that’s enclosed with the French magazine Courrier International, is a beautiful track that sounds like a leftover from the 5.55 sessions. Various strings, a floating, Air-ish bassline, some fx, her husky voice. What a treat. VERY different from the new single (below). Mille fleurs to Antoine for sending me this track.
Charlotte Gainsbourg – White Telephone