Regular guestposter Sky (he gets a shoutout in the Filles Fragiles-booklet) on Christiane Legrand:
The high art of wordless female vocals is a seldom praised genre, despite works like Floyd’s 'Great Gig in the Sky' featuring the divine Clare Torry, Rita’s moaning classic Erotica or Teo Usuelli’s Piacere Sequence. The absolute, unmatched peak of the genre might well be Enterrement sous-marine (Underwater Funeral), a collaboration between French movie composer François de Roubaix and Christiane Legrand, one of the original members of the legendary Swingle Singers and voix chantée in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, for the soundtrack of Les Aventuriers in 1966. Legrand’s beautiful soprano adds a unforgettably haunting dimension to the famous scene when Lino Ventura and Alain Delon float deep down in the sea with the body of their dead lover, Joanna Shimkus, before letting her go and allowing her to be swallowed by the dark waters – a melancholy underwater ballet oscillating between heavy grief and zero gravity, one of the finest romantic scenes in French movie history, and a sacred song.
François de Roubaix feat. Christiane Legrand - Enterrement Sous-Marine
That's just fantastic to hear this extraordinary title on a friday evening, just as the week end begins here.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI just adore this song. It almost makes me forget all the problems we have in France at the moment.
As long as we can produce such wonders, it might still be possible.
What do you think?