It's Quatorze Juillet, festive fires are already up in France, so why not celebrate this sunny day with a hymn to love. Edith Piaf sang the original Hymne á L'Amour in 1949, and lots of artists covered the song, like Mireille Mathieu, Johnny Halliday en Delphine Mailland. Most recent cover was done by Clémentine on her just released new album, Lumière. Clé is an interesting singer, she's quite big in Japan, but relatively unknown in her home-country. I'm not even sure her albums are available in France. Lumière is mostly filled with bossa-nova tinged covers of standards (Moon River) and popsongs like The Beach Boys' godawful Kokomo,Little Green Bag by Dutch cheese-rocker George Baker (both produced by Marc Collin, of Nouvelle Vague-fame) and Time After Time by Cindy Lauper. With help from bossanova-stars Celso Fonseca and Roberto Menescal, the vibe's good. But her taste in covers could improve.Happy Bastille-storming!
Delphine Mailland - Hymne á L'Amour (merci, Una Vida Rosa)
Clémentine - Hymne á L'Amour
Oh, and by the way, read this great piece in German newspapar Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung (FAZ) about music blogs, with a quote by me
Thanks for bringing the news of a new Clémentine album!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIt's not entirely good news, though. She has released some beautiful music in the past, but horrible stuff as well. But Kokomo? George Baker!? Ough!
On the other hand, I'd love to hear her sing Moon River...
Anyway, You've inspired me to also share a couple of songs by Clementine on my blog: http://earthgoesaround.blogspot.com/2006/07/clmentine.html