Marie Laforêt

Roar posted some great crackling Marie Laforêt-singles on Splendida-blog, but to my request he unearthed other Laforêt-gems for this blog. Paint the walls orange, put on your bellbottoms or minidress and enjoy the seventies-ride!

The Les vendanges de l'amour long box so far gives the best introduction to Marie Laforet's 70s discography. The three cds in it contain 24 tracks each, cd two and three focussing on the 70s entirely. Admittedly the record company could've done a better job on it, but I won't split hair, the long box compilation is definitely an easy recommendation to make.
With regards to styles Marie Laforet has often shifted between pop and (poppy) folk music. These shifts also dominate her 70s catalogue, plus a fair bit of main- and non-mainstream sentimentalism regardless of genre. And though I don't think they're all great, every album she released during this decade has moments of brilliance (sometimes they're chock full of them). Additionally she released some excellent singles.
What else? The said long box includes her albums from 1972 and 1973 in their entirety (the album from 1973 is gorgeous), but miss some great singles, plus several lovely tracks from her later albums. Examples from the latter category are included below. Please enjoy.

Marie Laforêt - Berceuse pour Deborah (1974)
Marie Laforêt - Mon amour (1976)
Marie Laforêt - Il reviendra (1977)
Marie Laforêt - Roman d'amour (1979) highly recommended!