Artist : VA
Album : LateNightTales: Nouvelle Vague
Label : Azuli
Genre : Lo-Fi
Bitrate : 164 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 01:17:29 (95 MB)
Rls date : 2007-02-14
Store date : 2007-02-12
[Track List]
1. The Special AKA - (What I Like Most About You 3:52
Is Your) Girlfriend
2. Nouvelle Vague - Come On Eileen (Exclusive 3:00
Cover Version)
3. Os Mutantes - Baby 3:32
4. The Pale Fountains - Unless 4:29
5. Charlie Rich - San Francisco Is A Lonely Town 3:26
6. Tones On Tail - Movement Of Fear 3:45
7. Phoebe Killdeer - Chaos 3:15
8. Avril - Urban Serenade 3:57
9. Shirley Horn - And I Love Him 2:29
10.Gavin Bryars - The Vespertine Park 5:10
11.David Sylvian - A Fire In The Forest 3:42
12.Art Bears - Civilization 3:31
13.Peggy Lee / Sy Oliver & His Orchestra - You're 3:20
My Thrill
14.Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix 2:39
15.Isabelle Antena - Le Poisson Des Mers Du Sud 4:08
16.Anja Garbarek - The Last Trick 5:10
17.Les Petroleuses - Nicole 4:00
18.Cibelle - Phoenix 5:00
19.This Mortal Coil - You And Your Sister 3:14
20.Julie London - Lonely Girl 3:30
21.David Shrigley - What I Ate 2:20
uF release had Voices Over, enjoy the Retail !
You are entering the Twilight Zone; a cellar smoky with Gitanes, aromatic like
Pastis and atmospheric likes a Bogey film noir. It
could be the ?50s or it could be the ?80s or it might not be either. But, damn,
it sounds good. It?s the wonderful and frightening
world of Nouvelle Vague.
If you want to know where the heads of Nouvelle Vague are at, Late Night Tales
gives you a wee glimpse through the twitching
curtains of their lustrous minds. If acid house had exploded in a fetid basement
in Rue Hachette rather than the repressed and sweaty
confines of Thatcher?s Britain, it might have sounded something like this. Torch
songs, songs of redemption and remorse, heartbreak
and uplift. Mood music of elevators and elevation.
The French, naturally, represent. Avril, whose Members Only album was recorded
at the same time as Nouvelle Vague, is here, along
with Vague contributors Camille Dalmais, who sings Nicole as Les Petroleuses and
Phoebe Killdeer whose own Chaos is included. Doyenne
of the early ?80s art crowd and French icon Isabelle Antena makes an appearance
with her ethereal bossa beat Le Poissons Des Mers Du
Sud, while fellow Disque du Cr?scule labelmate Gavin Bryars, after Michael
Nyman, Britain?s second most famous QPR-supporting
minimalist composer, makes an appearance with the arresting and arrestable
Vespertine Park.
Time drifts and sways as synths and voices
occasionally focus and smear. Pale Fountains, beauty lost and extinguished from
history, are exhumed here alongside the vastly
underrated Tones On Tail. The Special AKA, Jerry Dammers last stand, as cutting
as a 10? Sabatier with What I Like Most About You Is
Your Girlfriend. Art Bears lead the Art Attack, the cavalry in the form of David
Sylvian, whose brittle power on A Fire In The Forest
startles, while Anja Garbarek ? daughter of Jan ? sweeps up the leftovers. If
that wasn?t enough, Nouvelle Vague deliver the coup
de grace with a spectacular reading of Come On Eileen (long-threatened, but
finally delivered). David Shrigley shrigleys
proceedings like a post-modern Major Bloodnok. Teach us to be happy, teach us
control, this is the movement of fear, the wonderful
and frightening world of Nouvelle Vague.