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 you can discover below. I highly recommend 'Cupidon s'en fout' ('Cupid doesn't care') which I fell in love with while going through some painful mourning moments. The arrangements are playful. You will hear some laughs and cosmic sounds expressing the Mystery of any possible love alchemy. Or of the possible emptiness of the encounter. It helped me a lot to think positively, as usually in Georges Brassens' love songs: love breakups and breakdowns are nothing but nice souvenirs of times we were able to fly. 'Cupidon s'en fout' is about two people who made love in the woods. The guy who sings falls in love, The girl doesn't. She starts hanging out with another guy. The singer deplores it but wishes them luck eventually. Here is a good translation of David Yendley.
Enjoy the full album!
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