La Laque is a six-piece rockband (Devery is the shy sounding singer) from NYC, who play Filles Sourires-appreciated music but with a rougher edge. To quote a pressreview: "Fronted by a sexy siren teleported straight from a Godard casting call, La Laque explodes in a beautiful riot of beats and shrieks, leaving only a cloud of thick Gauloises smoke in its wake. It sounds like it wouldn't work. But, like so many things French, somehow it inexplicably does. Call it that certain je ne sais quoi." Sounds interesting, eh? Don't worry about the shrieking - that's not done by Devery, but by the guitars, and it's more psychedelic (think the loud guitars on Serge's Melody Nelson-album) then metal. La Laque happens to do a Gainsbourg-tribute, courtesy of the blogs Le One Night Stand and Melody Nelson, in the Big Apple when I'm over there too! I'm definitely trying to go. Odd: Le One Night Stand's myspace-site doesn't seem to work.
More music by La Laque on their myspace-site. Buy vinyl here.
This week I'm going to post more Filles Sourires from non-French speaking countries like America, f.i. Holland, Brazil and Spain. Tips are welcome!
(merci à Hello Gina for introducing me to La Laque)
April March!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenSure, April will appear! About time, ofcourse.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenif you happen to have any of dusty springfield's french songs, it would make me very happy. :)
BeantwoordenVerwijderenDusty sang in French? Rilly? Did not know that. Whole albums, or just b-sides?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenOoh, nice.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI can send you a Dusty track en français, but my recommendation would be Eux Autres. Think Sleater-Kinney turned, well, French.
Just drop me an e-mail for that Dusty.
Alas, Gina mistook Petula Clark for Dusty. Anyone out there who has French Dusty Springfield?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYou can find Eux Autres on Gina's blog here
BeantwoordenVerwijderenand here
oops, *a four track EP, obviously.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenShe released an four track EP of French songs in 1965 called 'Mademoiselle Dusty'.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenlink doesn't work, but I assume you are linking to eBay, where it is for sale for a very nice price. This was never re-released on cd, as you know?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenoh, it was just to a cover pic. there's one up on ebay at the moment for a reasonable price, but the seller has pretty bad feedback.
BeantwoordenVerwijderena couple of the songs are on a CD in her box set, and another couple are on the 'something special' compilation. guess i should just spring for one of those and stop whining ;).
there's also a cd of all her non-english songs called 'continental dusty', released for members of a dusty mailing list.
Well, first to mind come a couple of Spanish acts with whom I'm sure you're familiar. Not that many acts that sing in French that don't have French as their mother tongue that I know of - and some who do tend to be well rather camp (such as Les Sans...). Some acts sing partially in French though and a very good example is Saint Privat - they released a marvellous album a couple of years ago. The song "Tous les jours" is fantastic.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenBarry Gemso Experience also do a couple of songs in French (an elegant retro-pop combo on Siesta, very Él style in their performance).
Surely Lhasa has a few songs in French as well (at least I think so), if you haven't done a post on her already...
Lhasa will come up - don't know those other bands. Maybe you'd like to do another guestselection on Spanish acts?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenlink to La Laque - La Sirene Dort isnt working.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenlove your blog.
Link is okay now
BeantwoordenVerwijderenStereo Total!
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