"It is 1976. We take the Concorde from Paris to New York. The pilot reminds us somehow of Alain Delon, and he greets Valerie with a knowing wink. The next morning, Valerie doesn’t wake up as usual in her Upper East Side Apartment, but under a blossoming cherry tree in Central Park. She is wearing her evening dress, barefoot. Lying next to her in the grass : an empty pillbox, a bottle of champagne and singer Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane." This is the atmosphere producer Waldeck and singer Valerie Sajdik want you to keep in mind while listening to the second Saint Privat album. The psychedelic element isn't as big as you would except, no images of white rabbits sprang to my mind when their coverversion of Somebody to Love came on. The mood is breezy, sunny (with bossanova and latin touches), loungey. No wonder: Klaus Waldeck used to fish in the same musicpond as fellow Austrians Kruder & Dorfmeister. Valerie has a nice, highpitched voice, lolita-ish but maybe lacking of real personality. Still, both songs posted here are right up my alley. Bach en dub, from the debut-album, is vèry orange-coloured seventies.
Saint Privat - Une Dernière Cigarette
Saint Privat - Sans Remords (both from Superflu)
Saint Privat - Bach en dub (from Rivièra)
Hmm... You're lucky to live inside the EU. Saint Privat's distribution could be better and postage from amazon.de is always expensive for orders to my whereabouts. Which means I have to wait to get my copy from a certain store on the other side of the globe and I just hope the good tip goes unnoticed with regards to the many people living there. However, if you'd have waited another two weeks, I'd have thought this was a swell post.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenWhich it really is.
(I'm having fun recording from vinyl some lost gems, so I include one - a late 70s recording by Marie Laforet called "Roman d'amour." It almost sounds as if it were lifted from Jane Birkin's "Ex fan des sixties:" http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8UVIVHIM - hope you don't already have this song.)
Fantastic song, Roar! Merci bien!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHi r,
BeantwoordenVerwijderenyou might want to check out eMusic. Riviera is there and I'm sure that the second album can't be too far away. Much cheaper than having the physical version.
Hi Brad Hall :) The "Riviera" album was a top-three album of the year when it was released so I really need to have the follow up. Dead easy to get in Germany, but in Norway not so. And I'm getting used to the fact that a smashing (though not so brilliant on new European music) Chicago store takes in too few copies of the cds on my list. On the other hand it's good to see fine artists sell their music. Saint Privat's album's just round the corner. Will probably be stocked this week.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThanks for the good tip though :)