Les Hommes Sauvages

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Berlin isn’t located in France for sure, but if you live in the Paris of your mind, it doesn’t matter anyway. On Trafic, the second album by Les Hommes Sauvages – as well as the first one, Playtime, named after a movie by French comedian Jacques Tati – even the few songs with German lyrics breathe a certain French melancholy and smiling ease. As if written on a rainy day in the Marais, with sunbeams already coming through. Premier guitarist and songwriter Christophe Hahn, who also worked with the likes of Hugo Race, The Swans and Tav Falco, provides gritty licks and sweeping, sometimes poppy grooves as on Le Matin. La femme sauvage in charge is chanteuse extraordinaire Viola Limpet, whose vocals effuse the vulnerable, oddly magic quality of a grown-up fille that has seen ... well, quite a lot. The cover version of Gainsbourg’s Je suis venu te dire fits the picture perfectly: It’s all about the unbearable lightness of being.

Les Hommes Sauvages - Le Matin
Les Hommes Sauvages - Je suis venu te dire