So far, we've heard Helena Noguerra sing in French (for instance en duo with Katerine, but also on her two solo-albums), in English (as part of Dillinger Girl & Babyface Nelson), em Portugues (in a duet with Mary L.), but that she's fluent in Italian is new to me. Okay, she grew in Belgium and might've picked up some Italian there - maybe she even picked up some Italian guys back in the day, who knows. We like to keep track of Helena's musical output as much as we can here at FS. The Italian mumblings of La Noguerra are a vital part of 5000 Moons, one of the songs from the upcoming (March) album by Alex Gopher. The self-titled cd is a break from the filterhouse that made Gopher a household name in danceland. You either remember his Super Discount-contributions, or his brilliant idea to sample Billie Holiday for Ibiza-hit The Child. For Alex Gopher , the titular hero gets help from his old bandmates J-B Dunckel and Nicolas Godin (that's Air to you now, but all three were Orange once) is more poporiented, and the French producer sings all songs himself. You decide if that was a brilliant idea too.
Also in this post is a song from Helena's first album, 1998's Projet:Bikini.
Alex Gopher & Helena Noguerra - 5000 Moons
Helena Noguerra - Minimum
La Noguerra also appeared in "Cinema", a beautiful album by portuguese musician Rodrigo Leão (former member of Madredeus), in which she sang (and wrote the lyrics) a couple of songs: "Jeux D'Amour" and "La Fête". Check it out, if you can (the album has other special guests, like the brasilian singer Rosa Passos, Beth Gibbons - of Portishead fame - and Ryuichi Sakamoto).
BeantwoordenVerwijderenPS: Congratulatiuons for this wonderful blog!
sounds good!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI wrote in french a Helena's portrait on lalalala.org.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThere i a discography.
Helena is Lio's sister ans Philippe katerine 's wife...