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     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2157 Registered: 10-2006 |
Francis Cabrel – Je l’aime à mourir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMZVtFCU 0ZQ Cabrel is another of those famous French singer-songwriters I’d never heard of until yesterday. Trapped dogsitting with just a Google speaker for company I eventually got some French music out of it, including this attractive, stately acoustic ballad from 1978. I managed to scribble down enough phonetic sounds to trace the song online. Thought it was an anti-war song at first, but no, perhaps about his mum or wife? Ah, the wonders of ignorance – his first album is called Les Murs de Poussière, which I immediately decided was a cute medieval village in the Auvergne. “The walls of dust”, it turns out – both more, and less, interesting. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 553 Registered: 05-2005 |
Francis Cabrel has the same status as the giants of french song now (Brel, Brassens, Ferré). Well respected for his writing, mainly since "Samedi Soir Sur La Terre". He released also a Dylan's cover album. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2158 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm beginning to think French music is a bit like the country itself, you think you know it pretty well but really you've just scratched the surface! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1495 Registered: 04-2005 |
Ha beautifully stated Stuart ! I've been in France for over 20 years and each time I think I'm beginning to understand how things function or people think, something arrives to wipe out that notion  Dominique A in Cahors tonight ! "Nouvelles du monde lointain" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEk5MnbF v_Q | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2159 Registered: 10-2006 |
Meskerem Mees – Cod Liver Oil and the Orange Juice. A young Belgian singer with Ethiopian roots sings a scurrilous ditty made famous by a Scotsman born in Calcutta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbj8U0Qv bVo You're going to see DomA again, Andrew? That's just rubbing the salt in. Cahors looks rather nice, too...much as I imagined Poussière. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1496 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yes we went to the Dominique A gig in Bordeaux in December with a friend, who is a huge fan and after that concert he persuaded us to book for the Cahors gig. It’s amazing looking at the tour schedule the list of small towns that he is playing. The theatre in Cahors is absolutely beautiful, seating 440 people and stunningly decorated…a “salle à l'italienne”. The gig was wonderful (very “intimate”) and the great man himself was almost chatty! He seemed quite charmed by the town and the theatre too. He has a very dry sense of humour I’m beginning to realise. "made famous by a Scotsman born in Calcutta" = Hamish Imlach. He seemed to have been quite a character ! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2160 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sounds like my type of evening! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 716 Registered: 08-2005 |
Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey live at the Jazz Cafe, London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcilcLk1 dBk Not my usual music but I think she's written a few fantastic songs, of which this is one. And I chose this version because I saw Forster and McLennan at the same venue in 1999. A great performance at an intimate venue and looking at setlist.fm they would have played a lot of my favourites. Happy days! And all the best for 2023 from a cold, foggy but ice-free Bath! (By the way, is anybody here going to see Robert in concert in Oxford in March?) | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 717 Registered: 08-2005 |
Two for the price of one as I've now snuck into January 26... Bright Phoebus performed by the Waterson Family, a song guaranteed to bring me to tears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raFYoMre vfQ |