Carole Laure

Another guest-selector, the distinguished gentleman Monte La Rue, came up with a beautiful gem. Read his story about Carole Laure:

"No discussion about French Canadian singer and movie star Carole Laure is complete without bringing up the subject of ex-pornstar and songwriter par excellence Lewis Furey. Meeting up in the mid-seventies in Quebec, enstrangled in a complex Gainsbourg/Birkin-like relationship, they continued making albums together for the next 20 years. But it is their first album Alibis(1979) which leaves the deepest impression. Furey's fake Berlin 1920's tango & waltz pieces(remember Lou Reed-Berlin) are drenched in drama and blood and Laure's erotic poetry-like voice provides the perfect backdrop for a decor full of nostalgia and heartache. Think The Nightporter (movie with Dirk Bogarde/Charlotte Rampling) and you are getting close. The songs consist of the French versions of Furey's first three solo albums (Lewis Furey/The Humours of/The Sky Is Falling) and are a collection of flawless 'campy' masterpieces. Laure and Furey have since moved to France, still perform together and have made many albums, but the scars left by Alibis will forever haunt their careers."

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