Salomé Leclerc’s debut: worth the wait

  • Posted on 04/09/2011
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Salomé Leclerc - Sous Les ArbresIt took Salomé Leclerc almost four years to release her debut ‘Sous Les Arbres’. These years of writing, fine-tuning, re-arranging and rehearsing resulted in a very intimate, subtle and layered album that reveals its treasures slowly but surely. Together with Emily Loizeau (they met each other for the first time at ‘Les Rencontres d’Astaffort’) she managed to record a rudimentary album with lots of folk-influences that nonetheless doesn’t get on the nerves. A tour de force in itself, but she succeeded. The darkhaired beauty from Québec is blessed with a very versatile voice that is hoarse when needed (Dans la prairie), bright and strong (Partir Ensemble) and ominous and exciting (Volcan). The guitar-driven songs are the perfect field for her voice to play on and simultaneously kidnap the listeners mind to drop it somewhere under the trees.
Salomé Leclerc made an outstanding debut (but I still wonder why a stunningly beautiful song as ‘Est-il Cassé ?’ – see video below – isn’t on it).
Guuzbourg was right, yearlist-material people.

Salomé Leclerc – Tourne encore
Salomé Leclerc – Est-il Cassé ? (live at ‘Les Rencontres d’Astaffort’)

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

  • Posted on 31/08/2011
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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

Catching up

  • Posted on 31/08/2011
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Time to catch up and bring you few recently released albums to your attention. First there is LouiZ , pseudonym of Kathalyne Detry, from the French speaking part of Belgium. She recently released an EP with 5 tracks, which is a bit “Cabaret”-like. As a teaser we bring you here “Le Royaume”, which is also the title of her EP.

Another EP appeared from Delphine Coutant. she already released three albums and this EP “Parades Nuptiales” is a teaser for her new album that will be released in the beginning of 2012, and to be honest I was pleasantly surprised. Very good songs, very complicated arrangements and a great voice. Looking forward to the album!

Louiz – Le Royaume
Delphine Coutant – La Parade Nuptiale

Vanessa

OK, OK, I don’t mean THE Vanessa, but here we present to you another Vanessa: Vanessa Philippe. And, to be honest, it is a bit late for an introduction, because she just released her third (or second) album. It is called “La Fille Sans Qualités” (the Girl Without Qualities) and that is definitely not true. This album is inspired by a book with the same title, by Juli Zeh.
Vanessa has a very sweet voice, which she uses exactly as we like it here: sweet, tender and sultry in some songs too. You can see her too, here, with a song from her earlier album. For you to listen to, we picked the first single of this new album: “La Robe Verte”.

Vanessa Philippe -La Robe Verte

 

Gainsbourg tribute @ Hollywood Bowl

  • Posted on 29/08/2011
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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

  • Posted on 26/08/2011
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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

  • Posted on 25/08/2011
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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

Here is the news

We bring you the stories as they develop:

– Claire Denamur’s album Vagabonde is out on September 19.

– Listen to an extrait of a new Camille song HERE. You have to ‘pay’ with a tweet or a posting on your Facebook-page. Good track, minimalistic, more in the Le Fil vein. Camille’s new album is out in October.

– Coeur de Pirate will release a new album too, in November. It will be in French (yay!)

– French magazine Courrier International will include a live-dvd plus a never released song by Charlotte Gainsbourg. The mag, only available in France, will be on sale August 25. Any help to get me this magazine is greatly appreciated. The live+inedits-cd Experiences Stage Whisper will be released in November.

– In an interview with French music mag Serge, Chiara Mastroianni revelead that she and ex-husband Benjamin Biolay will probably record another duets-album als H.O.M.E. No release-date is set, but think years instead of months.

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