woensdag 24 oktober 2007

Tricot Machine


Great name, Tricot Machine. It's a duo from Canada, who released their 2nd album last spring. Actually, it's a trio: Catherine Leduc, Matthieu Beaumont and Matt's brother Daniel, who writes lyrics. Cat and Matt are a couple. Their music's labeled as folk - I always think of Steeleye Span then, but the couple agrees with it, so there. Piano, guitar, voice and a few effects, for gentle and happy songs. Similar to Alfa Rococo, Dobracaracol and Saule. Songs you'd want to hear lying on your back in the grass. Funny thing: in almost all songs they use one or two English words, as if they did not know the French ones and smuggled in the English. Best song on the most recent album is L'Ours - that comes with a very creative and funny video (click to watch).

Tricot Machine - L'Ours
Tricot Machine - Une histoire de mitaines

6 opmerkingen:

  1. "Funny thing: in almost all songs they use one or two English words, as if they did not know the French ones and smuggled in the English."
    C'est ce qu'on appelle le "joual", un dialecte bien québécois "à cheval" entre le français et l'anglais...

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  2. Their album is everywhere here in Montreal as of late. The French use enough Arab words in their hiphop without knowing it's not French, so vive le joual, tabarnak :)

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  3. histoire de mitaines does not work...

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  4. the correct URL for the histoire de mitaines file ends with histoires.mp3 instead of histoire.mp3

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