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Ah, Melody
-M- and General Elektriks played a Melody Nelson-medley on Taratata last week:
London Tribute
French born singer June Caravel made a (Camille-style) tribute to her new hometown London. Almost every word in the lyrics is referring to a street in the British capital. It took six days to shoot, and six days to edit. Read the full story here.
The Alsmann Treatment
On his new album “In Paris”, German entertainer Götz Alsmann gives a lot of classic French tunes a quite special treatment. On his version of Charles Trenet’s La Mer, he sounds every bit as brisk and snappy as Hauptmann Ernst Jünger when he played the piano for the rest of the German Kommandostab at the Parisian Hotel Majestic in 1941. The only difference probably is that Jünger had a more trendy haircut, and a significantly groovier swing.
Ödland
It is always good news when a new album of Ödland comes out. Or maybe I should say a new Ödland movie. But that is what they make: soundtracks of non existing movies. Last year, they took us to the 19the century with Ottocento, and this year they take us on a trip to Northern and Central Europe. “Sankta Lucia” is the title of this new album, and it looks wonderful. Lorenzo Papace is once again supported by singer Alizée Bingöllü (by far the most intriguing name in French music) and Léa Bingöllü and Isabelle Royet-Journoud. Dreamy, folky and very much mesmerising. As usual the artwork is stunning. Check out their website for details and look at the wonderful dreamy video’s like this one. and for your ears only, we picked this lovely song:
New Soko video
See the video Spike Jonze made for Soko’s I thought I was an alien HERE, also read the Q&A with her.
Coeur de Pirate playing Golden Baby
A track from the upcoming album, live in the studio:
In other news: Beatrice/CdP’s singing a track (along with Carla Bruni, Emilie Simon, Olivia Ruiz and Jamie Cullum) on the Christmas-album by Michel Legrand. See full tracklist here
Fox & Braun re-do Jacqueline Taieb
Australian ‘past life twins’ Ivy Fox and Naomi Braun recently covered Jacqueline Taieb’s ye-ye classic 7 heures du matin in English. See video below.