I have doubted for about... 5 minutes before chosing the topic of the week. "A love at first heard" :) However, there have been quite a lot of new albums released in the last days and weeks like Palatine, Feu! Chatterton, also some isolated projects like this videoclip for a famous song of Georges Brassens, "Les passantes"(The passers-by, 1972): The song is actually a poem of Antoine Pol set into music, an ode to all these people (here, women) we met once and who eventually vanished in the...
Everything seems to lead me to Quebec. Some of my friends or students went there, to travel, to work, to study, to live, to conduct small artistic projects, to make their desires or dreams come true. Through one of my jobs, I am also often in touch with Quebec (I currently assess the level of French language for people willing to immigrate there). I also met Quebecois a bit everywhere, like this very cool, talented screenwriter when I was living in India. It feels like the Quebec wind is more...
Happy new year everyone! I discovered so many great songs in such a short amount of time! I don't know where to start. Honestly if I had more time (and maybe more readers) I think I could write an article a day (oh yes I could!). This week I hesitated between several songs, among which a both very sensual and funny duet between Jane Birkin and Étienne Daho (maybe I will come back to it next week), a hilarious song of Georges Brassens about a woman describing her handyman husband, the very...
While listening to Chanson Boom, an excellent radio program about Francophone songs, my attention was suddenly caught by a very personal, both intimate and funny version of 'Putain de toi' by Georges Brassens, our national singer-songwriter. I immediately wanted to know more about Pauline Dupuy, the singer and double bass player, and her projet Contrebrassens, I warmly thank and congratulate her and Michael Wookey for their work on À l'ombre du coeur, an album of Georges Brassens covers that...
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