Because I like girls who look a bit like Alyssa Milano. And because it’s a very catchy song. That’s why I post this video, and this track by Jenifer.
Jenifer – Je danse
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Initials SG
Re-up of the Gainsbourg-mix I made earlier, because on March 2 we’ll remember Serge’s passing, 20 years ago. That said, I guess I see y’all this Wednesday in Club Bitterzoet in Amsterdam for the Gitanes & Jazz-soirée? Or maybe you’ll go to Ruimte X in Tilburg on March 5 (I won’t be there), or Petrol in Antwerp on March 12 (I’m there, oh boy, I’m there)?
Download the mix from HERE.
Illustration stolen from HERE
Tracklist:
Serge – Folk Implosion
Chatterton – Seu Jorge
Couleur Café – Babaloo
Les Sambassadeurs – Serge Gainsbourg
La Javanaise – Richard Galliano
Jane B – Sandie//Trash
5:55 – Charlotte Gainsbourg
L’Anamour – Ivy
Harley Davidson – Souvenir
Laisse Tomber les Filles – Mareva Galanter
Je t’aime Moi Non Plus – The Traces
The Ticket Puncher – Mick Harvey
Fuir le Bonheur – Ariane Moffatt
En Melody – Kahimi Karie
Initials BB – David Shea
Les Petits Papiers – Jane Birkin & Françoise Hardy
This wednesday, France Inter has a great evening planned about Gainsbourg with covers by BB Brunes and Joseph D’Anvers, plus a dj-mix by Gilles Peterson
More Gainsbourg tributes
Michel Drucker, he of the infamous Whitney Houston-incident, hosted another great Gainsbourg-tribute on French tv recently. Featuring Benjamin Biolay (singing Sorry Angel, see above), Elodie Frégé & Stanislas channeling Serge & Catherine (very sexy!), Claire Keim singing La ballade de Johnny Jane, it’s overwhelming. Nice mini-docu’s too, this one, and this one. (thanks Sami)
Taratata celebrates Gainsbourg
Yesterday, the French music show Taratata was dedicated to Gainsbourg (because of the 20th anniversary of his death, on March 2). Nosfell and Laetitia Casta singing La decadanse, Charlotte covering Couleur Café, Ben L’Oncle Soul & Sly Johnson redoing the Vieille Canaille-duet… overwhelmingly beautiful! See the emission HERE. Youtube-clips HERE and HERE.
Jane Birkin & The Lilies
A few quotes from reviews of We Are The Lilies:’A collaboration between Sérgio Dias, founder of cult 1960s/70s Brazilian psychedelic group Os Mutantes, and French indie outfit Tahiti Boy and The Palmtree Family. Written and recorded in five days, their album is a blast, blending the French band’s twisty, intricate pop with Dias’s free-wheeling tropicalia. Jane Birkin and Iggy Pop, an apt mix of sophistication and wildness, pop up as guest vocalists.’ (FT)
‘Sounding every bit like a vintage Trevor Horn production, with beautifully descending Belle and Sebastian chords, raucous shout-alongs comparable to early Bees and some hysterical saxophones straight out of the Ian Dury catalogue, this is a slightly woozy house party album for when LSD gets in the punchbowl and revellers start getting into the first phases of debauched undress.’ (BBC)
‘The two big moments on We Are the Lilies come courtesy of special guests Iggy Pop and Jane Birkin (the actress/ singer most famous for her recordings with ex-husband Serge Gainsbourg), and both are most unexpected. The Iggy-assisted “Why?” is great fun, but almost only because he seems be having most of it (“Why do the French smoke? Why do Americans fight? Why do Brazilians dance?” he yelps over a spotty appropriation of a little Motor City rumble). Birkin’s “Marie” fares better with its stripped-down approach, channeling Blue-era Joni Mitchell with a bit of that perfectly flat-but-pretty French affectation.’ (Pitchfork)
The Lilies feat. Jane Birkin – Marie
Erin Ivey
Norah Jones’ sexy sister with a reggae beat. Intrigued? Erin Ivey is from Austin, Texas, a town brimming with singer-songwriters, but she stands out. With her looks (she was voted one of Austins most beautiful women), with her husky voice that makes ice melt, with her band (organ based R&B/dub trio the Finest Kind), with fine lyrics and with solid songs. And, you guessed it, a wee bit of French singing. In Chocolate, she quotes from Marie Laforet’s Mon Amour, Mon Ami. I’m listening to Erins album Broken Gold, that’s just out, and three songs in I want me and the mrs to slip in something more comfortable. See Erin perform the song before a very unappreciative audience. [Thanks Cameron]
Mademoiselle Nineteen
Download the new, VERY GOOD, single by Mademoiselle Nineteen here, in exchange for your email-address.
Victoires de la musique (1)
And the winners are…Ben L’Oncle Soul, Gaetan Roussel, Hindi Zahra, Bernard Lavilliers, Abd Al Malik, Stromae and Indochine. These artists all won an award at the Victoires de la Musique, the most important music prizes in France. Lilly Wood & the Prick got the audience appreciation award. Together with Hindi Zahra (featured here) the only fille who won. Lilly sings in English and isn’t a real fille fragile, but this is a good opportunity to introduce her on this blog. This year, the awardshow is split in two, on March 1 the prizes for best female artist, best song and best album are announced.
Armistice
Armistice = Beatrice ‘Coeur de Pirate’ Martin & Jay ‘Bedouin Soundclash’ Malinowski. EP will be released on Feb 14. No French songs, alas. But Beatrice and Jay sure sex up that grand Calexico-mariachi-rocksound – it resembles this great team-up.
Armistice – Mission Bells