Nice, if maybe a little too fast bar-jazz-trio version of the maybe coolest composition of the Gainsbourg repertoire by Sao-Paulo-based Les Serges. Wow bassman!
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Victoires de la musique (2)
Yesterday, the remaining Victoires de la musique were presented. Among the winners were ZAZ (see video), who was celebrated on this blog many times, and Yael Naim. Full list of winners here.
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.
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
The Mouth of Serge
Pietro Marcello’s movie La Bocca del Lupo, shown at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, features the urban underbelly of Genua, rugged Italian individuals, the amore between a long-time con and a transsexual, and Serge’s L’eau à la bouche. Merci à Matthias.
Joyeux anniversaire, Françoise Hardy
Françoise Hardy turned 67 today. Happy birthday!