Jean-Claude Vannier (born 1943) is a French musician, composer
and arranger. Vannier has composed music, written lyrics, and produced
albums for many singers. Vannier is regarded as an important musician in
his native country; music critic Andy Votel noted his Eastern music
influences and named him a pop-culture icon of 1970s France, alongside Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.
Showing posts with label Chanson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chanson. Show all posts
02/07/2025
16/06/2023
Tales of forgotten times
Veronique Chalot (1950 - 2021) was a French singer and musician; she was born in Normandy in the north of France, but it was in Paris that
she first became interested in traditional French folk music.Over the past 30+ years she has given hundreds of concerts, presenting
her repertoire of traditional French/Italian folk songs and building
awareness of that fascinating patrimony of antique melodies and dance
rhythms. Since 2005 she has played with Veziana, an ensemble dedicated
to early music from both sides of the Pyrenees.
21/03/2023
Overdose of flashing lights
Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg 2 April 1928 - 2 March
1991) was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet,
painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director. Regarded as the most
important figure in French pop whilst alive, he was renowned for often
provocative and scandalous releases which caused uproar in France,
dividing its public opinion; as well as his diverse artistic output,
which ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later
efforts in rock, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's varied
musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize,
although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded
as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
His lyrical works incorporated wordplay, with humorous, bizarre,
provocative, sexual, satirical or subversive overtones, including
sophisticated rhymes, mondegreen, onomatopoeia, spoonerism, dysphemism,
paraprosdokian and pun. Gainsbourg wrote over 550 songs, which have been
covered more than 1,000 times by a range of artists.
Since his death from a second heart attack in 1991, Gainsbourg's music
has reached legendary stature in France, and he is regarded as France's
greatest ever musician and one of the country's most popular and
endeared public figures.
Jean-Claude Vannier (born 1943) is a French musician, composer
and arranger. Vannier has composed music, written lyrics, and produced
albums for many singers. Vannier is regarded as an important musician in
his native country; music critic Andy Votel noted his Eastern music
influences and named him a pop-culture icon of 1970s France, alongside Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.
21/02/2023
Swimming in purple snow
Brigitte Fontaine (1939) is a French singer of avant-garde music, and she is
also a novelist, playwright, poet and actress. During the course of her
career she has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock
and roll, folk, free jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry and world
rhythms. She has collaborated with such celebrated musicians as Areski Belkacem, Jacques Higelin, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Michel Colombier, Antoine Duhamel, Georges Moustaki, Jean-Claude Vannier, Gotan Project, Grace Jones, Archie Shepp, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Matthieu Chedid and Noir Désir.
02/02/2023
Rhythms to live forever
Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg 2 April 1928 - 2 March
1991) was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet,
painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director. Regarded as the most
important figure in French pop whilst alive, he was renowned for often
provocative and scandalous releases which caused uproar in France,
dividing its public opinion; as well as his diverse artistic output,
which ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later
efforts in rock, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's varied
musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize,
although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded
as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
His lyrical works incorporated wordplay, with humorous, bizarre,
provocative, sexual, satirical or subversive overtones, including
sophisticated rhymes, mondegreen, onomatopoeia, spoonerism, dysphemism,
paraprosdokian and pun. Gainsbourg wrote over 550 songs, which have been
covered more than 1,000 times by a range of artists.
Since his death from a second heart attack in 1991, Gainsbourg's music
has reached legendary stature in France, and he is regarded as France's
greatest ever musician and one of the country's most popular and
endeared public figures.
04/11/2022
Resting in a blue flowers field
Charlotte Walters is a French singer from 60's; on this 1969 album (the only one officially known), she sings two songs composed by her sister Chloe Walters.
10/04/2022
The undeniable attraction of evil
Pierre Bachelet (25 May 1944 – 15 February 2005) was a French singer-songwriter; he writes more music of commercials and documentaries of. The biggest success in this field was the soundtrack of Emmanuelle's Just Jaeckin erotic film: 1.4 million albums and 4 million single discs are sold.
27/02/2022
Youthful momentum of the past
Clothilde (pseudonym of Élisabeth Beauvais; born February 22, 1948) is a French singer who was active for a brief period in 1967. Clothilde recorded only two 45 rpm records in 1967 with words written by Jean-Yves Gaillac to music orchestrated by Germinal Tenas.
20/02/2022
In the way of Shangri-La
Jean-Claude Vannier (born 1943) is a French musician, composer and arranger. Vannier has composed music, written lyrics, and produced albums for many singers. Vannier is regarded as an important musician in his native country; music critic Andy Votel noted his Eastern music influences and named him a pop-culture icon of 1970s France, alongside Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.
11/12/2021
Into entheogenic magic
Jean Le Fennec was a Belgian psychologist, astrologer, and musician; he was the co-founder with Jacques Vanaise of l'Institut National d'Anthropo-Cosmologie. While the veracity of the word “obscure” when it comes to music nowadays may be dubious there is still a bit of
mystery behind Jean Le Fennec’s 1969 psych-rock album Le Phantastic. The album itself is nine tracks of Le Fennec’s playful, undoubtedly
French, psych-pop. Sounding like he had an orchestra’s worth of
musicians backing him, Le Fennec fills out the LP with spacey
instrumentation as well as vocal effects. He died in 1986.
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