FS Rerun: Els & Daan

  • Posted on 06/09/2010
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Many visitors wrote guestposts for FillesSourires, this one’s from Joachim from 2005:

The first time I heard this song was in the Belgian movie Meisje. I liked it a lot but somehow forgot about it. Until I heard it on the radio – on that moment I was sure I knew that song all of my life. Wrong! Belgian artist Daan (of Dead Man Ray-fame)made this track in 2002. You can find it on the bonus-cd of Bridge Burner (2003) and now on the excellent cd Cinema (2006).
E-zine Ultra wrote: ‘Once again I’m sure quite a few eighties electropop revivalists will be jealous of this catchy ànd classy single. Jamais Neutral is sophisticated lightweight pop-with-synthesizers which sounds as if Lio (or Vanessa Paradis or…) had been given a song by Gainsbourg and then produced by Telex. Quel craftsmanship! Incredible, too, how well Dottermans (one of Belgium’s top actresses) performs.’

Daan feat. Els Dottermans – Jamais Neutral

FS Rerun: L’autre Brigitte

  • Posted on 05/09/2010
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Because of the 5th anniversary of this blog, we will re-run a few legendary postings:

The French adult cinema of the 70s was about carnal excess as well as about hedonism, politics, and libertinage. For a brief moment, especially in the key year 1978, movies like Perversion d’une jeune mariée or Je suis à prendre transcended smut and sleaze into an art form – particularly due to the spellbinding presence of the young Brigitte Lahaie who managed to fill even the lewdest scenes with a kind of radiant innocence.

Her only single, Caresse Tendresse, recorded in 1987 for the Clever label, regrettably doesn’t emanate quite the same sensual poetry and magic – Brigitte’s voice clearly wasn’t her strongest physical asset, and the song itself sounds like a dancefloor collaboration between the „Vu de l’extérieur“ Gainsbourg and a sedated church organist. So what? As for Brigitte, it was a labor of love anyway.

Bonus: The title track from the 1980 Lahaie movie „Secrets d’adolescentes“ (a.k.a. „Le Porno esperienze di Luca e Fanny“), a voluptuous soundscape by the great Roberto Pregadio that was also used in Franco Prosperi’s nunploitation shocker „La Settima Donna“. Ethereal moaning not by Brigitte, but by the similarly magnificent Edda Dell’Orso, better known for her teamworks with Ennio Morricone – the queen of wordless erotic vocals of Italian cinema.

Brigitte Lahaie – Caresse tendresse

Roberto Pregadio – Secrets d’adolescentes

In addition to our original post: Pregadio’s super-sleazoid reprise of his gorgeous theme, including a funk guitar with a porn star moustache.

Roberto Pregadio – La Settima Donna (Ripresa)

Trust Mesrine

  • Posted on 05/09/2010
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Last year saw Jean-Francois Richet’s L’instinct de Mort, a gritty and classy gangster movie about Jacques Mesrine, France’s Public Enemy No. 1 in the Seventies. Music-wise, French Punk rockers Trust payed tribute to Mesrine with two songs on their meanwhile classic 1980 album Répression, an angry blast of antisocial attitude and Stooges drive: Instinct de mort reflects on Mesrine’s autobiography of the same title, and Le Mitard (The Dungeon) is based on a poem written by Mesrine in the maximum-security wing of Fleury Merogis prison. Today, Mesrine’s image has changed quite grotesquely; his autobiography was re-published in Flammarion’s Pop Culture program line (see right).

Trust – Le Mitard

Trust – Instinct de Mort

Eighth Wonder

  • Posted on 03/09/2010
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Patsy Kensit rose to fame thanks to her Bardot-ish looks and movies like Absolute Beginners and Lethal Weapon 2. She sang with the band Eighth Wonder, started by her brother Jamie. They released two albums and a set of remixes, but none of those cd’s included the French version of hitsingle I’m Not Scared. The song was written and produced by The Pet Shop Boys (Gainsbourg-fans, they did their own version of Je t’aime…).The English version is very catchy, while J’ai pas peur (b-side to the vinyl-single of I’m Not Scared) is a sighing-feast. Like it should be.

Eighth Wonder – J’ai pas peur

Bardot, Coppola, Dior

  • Posted on 03/09/2010
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Brigitte Bardot in a commercial shot by Sofia Coppola for a fragrance by Dior. Yep, it’s from 2008 but I never saw this ‘director’s cut’ before, and the song is a surprise too (though it’s from a Best Of cd by Bardot, I seem to have missed it completely).

Brigitte Bardot – Moi je joue

Five Years of Filles

  • Posted on 02/09/2010
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This month, FillesSourires.com celebrates it’s fifth anniversary, which means that I will post a lot of goodies, we will look back on legendary posts and I asked several musicians and a dj to come up with an extra special present for all ye faithful visitors. To kick off, here are two Gainsbourg-covers that were never issued on cd, and I never saw them posted before.

First off is Antoinette, a YeYe-singer who I know nothing about. It’s not the British singer of the same name, my guess is she’s Belgian, because the vinyl-single that I ripped was given away free with Belgian magazine Panorama. There was also this version, but the girl on the cover looks very different from the cover I have.
Trumpet Boy’s real name was Fernand Verstraete (born in 1925 in Rouen, died in 1992), who made several EP’s and albums with his ‘trompette-succès’. His version of Le claqueur des doigst stems from 1959 or ’60, and as you can hear my vinyl-copy isn’t in the best of shape. Which adds to the jazzy atmosphere, nonetheless.

Antoinette – Baby pop
Trumpet Boy – Le claqueur des doigts

La Patere Rose

  • Posted on 30/08/2010
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Summer’s over, so new records are coming up. One of Canada’s loveliest trio’s, La Patere Rose, will release their second album in September. An EP with four songs is out now. Less kooky then songs on their debut, like great single La Marelle. But the lack of weirdness is compensated by extra fragility. Which is nice. (On second thought, Décapote, in that ‘country beach remix’, is a pretty odd song)
The second LPR-album will be released by Naive, home of Biolay and Bruni, in France (and hopefully the rest of Europe).

La Patere Rose – Chocolove

French movies

  • Posted on 27/08/2010
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Great video from Magnus (dEUS-frontman Tom Barman & DJ CJ Bolland), you’ll recognise dEUS-guitarist Mauro Pawlowski as ‘Le Fou’. Been a while since I saw this, still makes me smile.

Dorléac

  • Posted on 27/08/2010
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A lovely singing doll plus cinematic grooves, that sums up Dorléac rather nicely I think. The doll is Geike Arnaert, former siren of Belgian triphopstars Hooverphonic. The grooves are made by Dutch cut and paste meister Erik de Jong (aka Spinvis). They were brought together by Belgian filmdirector Hans van Nuffel, who asked them for a song for his new movie. Geike and Erik got along very well, and recorded a whole album. Erik said to Dutch site 3voor12: ‘Geike approaches English as a French singer, which I like.’ It’s a pity that there’s only one French song on the album, would’ve loved to hear more. The name Dorléac refers obviously to Catherine Deneuve’s sister Francoise Dorléac, who died in a carcrash but remains a cultfigure thanks to Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. The album is really beautiful, all kinds of references pop in my head, from Portishead to Postal Service.
Dorléac plays live only twice, here and here.

Dorleac – Disparu

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