woensdag 27 januari 2010

Agnes Jaoui


One of the most powerful musical experiences I ever had as a dj, was when I played an Amalia Rodrigues track in an Amsterdam café, one winter's day. This older man, sitting a few tables from the dj-booth, instantly began to sob like a baby. Afterwards, he told me he was from Porto, was going through a hard time and missed his family terribly in a cold, rainy country. This track, it could've been any track, was just too much.
I thought about this incident when playing Agnes Jaoui's second album. The French actress and sometime director recorded covers of Mercedes Sosa, Chico Buarque and Raul Paz (among others), with just a few songs in French. It's an album baked under a southern sun, like beautiful reddish pottery. Saudade is not an easy to explain term, but probably the only way to label Jaoui's Dans mon pays album.

Agnes Jaoui - Sur le pont de l'alma mia

3 opmerkingen:

  1. Agnes is good in everything i am diehard fan of agnes . very good blog on agnes pls keep sharing

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  2. like nachelle i am also a fan of agnes i have a large collection of agnes .

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  3. wow. I like her too.. She is too gorgeous with her photo.

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