Marc Collin

Back from holiday (in Jordan), not to find the new Benjamin Biolay-album on my doorstep, alas, because that one is postponed until June. Instead, I got the Coming Home-edition compiled by Nouvelle Vague (i.e. Marc Collin). Coming Home is a LateNightTales-ish compilation series from Stereo Deluxe Records, Tim Love Lee made one too. Collin chose his fave filmthemes - the comp kicks off with Gato Barbieri's brilliant theme for Last Tango in Paris. There's ofcourse filmmusic by Marc himself, there's Ennio, Nino and Lalo, there's Serge Gainsbourg (oddly, not the original version of Requiem pour un Con used in Le Pacha, but the shitty 1991-remix, which to my knowledge was never used in a movie) and there's François de Roubaix. Also a few songs, some sung by women. Phillippe Sarde's Chanson de Helène (from Les Choses de la Vie) is sung by Romy Schneider (and posted here before), but I do not know who's singing in Maldonne by Vladimir Cosma, from the soundtrack to Maldonne. Very nice is the instrumental La Petite Fille de la Mer by Greek synth-god Vangelis, taken from the Apocalypse des Animaux soundtrack.

Phillippe Sarde - La Chanson de Helene
Vladimir Cosma - Maldonne
Vangelis - La Petite Fille de la Mer

And no, I do not have tickets to this already sold-out tribute to Serge. Wish I could be there, though...