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Téléphone Tribute
‘Ça (C’est vraiment nous)’ is a tribute to French rock royalty Téléphone, France’s answer to the Rolling Stones that peaked in the late seventies and sported J-L Aubert and Louis Bertignac among their members. Tribute-artists are Olivia Ruiz, Joyce Jonathan, Mademoiselle K and Plastiscines, Spotify link HERE
Heaviest track is this version by ZAZ
Original:
Barbara Carlotti sings Bardot
Mark Sullivan writes:
Carlotti covers a song by Brigitte Bardot? Stranger things have happened. It’s the title song of the 1971 film ‘Boulevard du Rhum’ in a new arrangement by Fred Pallem, French big band jazz composer-arranger with Le Sacre du Tympan.
The music for the film, about a French silent screen actress encountering the profiteers of US Prohibition in the 1920s, was written by the film composer François de Roubaix. The album has new interpretations of the music of de Roubaix (1939-1975), who was killed in a diving accident in the Canaries. ‘Boulevard du rhum’ (lyrics by Pierre Pelegri and Robert Enrico) was a good vehicle for BB, perhaps the last major track she recorded.
Bardot’s version from the movie:
Barbara Carlotti is the best-known singer on a mainly instrumental album of de Roubaix’s film music. It’s available on Soundcloud here
Do try this great duet from the same album as well:
Alma Forrer
New kid on the block, who sounds like Barbara and Francoise Hardy, which is nice:
This is her second EP.
This is a very nice duet:
More? HERE
La Grande Sophie
Nos Histoires is the new La Grande Sophie album. Review coming up. In the meantime, check out these new tracks:
Pirouettes
One can never have too many Elli & Jacno updates. The Pirouettes (Vickie & Leo) sure make a fine duo
On Bandcamp: