Le Pop 5

RD: 2009-11-20

Record Label: Le Pop Musik
Catalog ID: LPM 25
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One Le Pop 5 the label has once again proven that they have the Midas touch. This is where the career of Coeur de pirate started in the German speaking world. In France, two songs - "Comme des enfants" by Coeur de pirate and "Ton heritage" by Benjamin Biolay - were subsequently named Chanson of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique (the French Grammy). Marianne Dissard exclusively provided an early version of "La peau du lait" for the compilation. The wonderful Armelle Pioline is represented here twice: once as singer of Holden and then as the duet partner of Bastien Lallemant. And Albin de la Simone brought a very prominent guest singer to the microphone: Vanessa Paradis, in whose live band he was playing at the time.

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Olive et moi

Welcoming you on board Le Pop 5 –lift is Olive et Moi. Despite what you might think Olive et Moi is not a band, but the solo project of a certain Olive from Montpellier. Hallmark of his debut album «Fais moi une passe» is its witty way of playing, which of course can also be found on our opener «L’ascenseur». Producer of the album is Sammy Decoster, resident of the fifth floor of this compilation. Further characteristics of Olive et Moi is an acrobatic tongue-in-cheek-tone ranging from casual bon mot to deep black humor. «L’ascenseur» is about the beauty of a chance encounter in an elevator on its way up to cloud nine.
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Chat

« Folie Douce » – Chat’s first album title– is a beautifully fitting description for her music: sweet lunacy. Stripping off the ties of classical music the trained concert pianist chose to turn to a looser handling of her instrument. Suiting her pseudonym, Chats melodies oscillate between snappish and cuddly – chansons combining the rural innocence of a circus visit with the poesy of rambling through a metropolis. The album was produced by Joseph Chédid, known to be the younger brother of Mathieu Chédid (alias M). He has also been working with Thierry Stremler, and is actually promoting his own project under the name Selim – also very worth listening to.
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Albin De La Simone

The fact that in between Joe and Johnny (le Taxi and Depp) Vanessa Paradis can look back upon a veritable musical career did not attract much attention outside of France. However Vanessa Paradis is in top form, which her last album « Divinidylle » documents impressively. Her support on the tour was kind of a Le-Pop-All-star-Band: on stage were M (Mathieu Chedid), Jérome Goldet (ex-bassist of Thierry Stremler) and Albin de la Simone, three musicians who have already made a name for themselves in the Nouvelle Scène Francaise (and in Le Pop). This co-operation led to the duet « Adrienne ». Yet another exhibit for the openness and permeability of the French scene.
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Dominique A

In the 18th year of his career Dominique A sheds yet another skin. On his new, now eighth album « La Musique » he returns to his old school method of production using neither studio nor guest musicians. Instead he recorded all the songs under his own auspices. This way he didn’t have to make any artistic compromises and was able to play exactly what was on his mind – the simple title « La Musique » indicates the pure and intuitive encounter with the artist’s genius: great songwriting meets precise arrangements and a fantastic voice, sounding more present then ever before. If anyone, Dominique A is probably the French artist most likely to fill the shoes of the recently deceased Alain Bashung.
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Sammy Decoster

Listening to the music of Sammy Decoster one will barely believe he grew up in the calm region of Calvados in the north of France – so authentic are his sounds of wide American landscapes. In his childhood Decoster discovered his love for Elvis Presley and for Geography, his later field of study. Both of his passions fuse perfectly into the longing for « Tucumcari » a small town in New Mexico, located on Highway 66. But even without this information, thanks to his magical road-movie-sound, it’s not hard to appreciate the title. It sounds like a cliché, but the sound in combination with Decosters French vocals is simultaneously genuine and surprising. In France Sammy Decoster is already compared to rock legend Jean-Louis Murat, who is also addicted to American sound.
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Naim Amor

French pop and Americana – two spheres which haven’t mingled for quite some time, aside from Calexico’s appreciation for Françoiz Breut and their occasional collaborations. Like Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico the French expat Naïm Amor lives in Tucson, Arizona. They recorded Amors Album « Sanguine » together and by doing so captured the best of both worlds by marrying them in an amazing way: the majestic grandeur and shimmering heat of the desert state Arizona meets French chanson tradition and the aura of the Old World. Subtle harmonies, cautious arrangements and a discreet jazzy vibe make this album extremely well put together. Tucson, Arizona, is worth keeping your eye on as the field office for French Pop culture.
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Bastien Lallemant

Bastien Lallemant’s album « Le Verger » ( to be released 2010) is a collection of street ballads dealing with blood and thunder, similar to the Murder Ballads of Nick Cave. However, musically Lallemant is slightly more subtle and elegant. As an exclusive premiere we present an extract from this album – a duet with the lead singer of Holden, Armelle Pioline. « La Plage » tells the story of women’s body found at the beach. The recording studio was teeming with the usual suspects: Pascal Parisot, Bertrand Belin and the unavoidable Albin de la Simone leave their musical prints.
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Vincent Delerm

Returning to simplicity is the newly discovered trend spreading among protagonists of the French music scene, examples include album titles like « I love you » (Mathieu Boogaerts) or « La Musique » (Dominique A). Vincent Delerm entitles his new, forth album « 15 chansons » and he, too stays away from almost any kind of embellishment: over half of the songs are under two minutes long, the entire album is a perfect collection of tight and shiny pop music. Delerm’s compositions are elemental and unpretentious as never before. According to this tradition « Je pense a toi » is a love song without any irony, subtext or false pretense. They are the words of someone who has come to terms with himself and with his art. Rare and good to hear.
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Eddy (La) Gooyatsh

Since the hit rate of a one hit wonder is per se one, after « L’amour et l’eau fraiche » (Le Pop 4) Eddy (La) Gooyatsh has know doubled his score with « Le vélo ». Truth be told, it would be unfair to reduce (La) Gooyatsh to these to songs, to which he owes his fame in France. His two albums reveal a musical cosmos consisting of interwoven melodies and rhythms of a creative and to some extend exotic instrumentation (he has a collection of ukuleles), letting a great songwriting talent gleam through. This talent of (La) Gooyatsh is yet to be discovered in France, too. Having such popular support from the famous peacemaker Richard Virenque (cycling legend and (La) Gooyatsh’s patron in the great video clip to « Le vélo ») he should soon be able to fill these structural holes.
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Marianne Dissard

Since the earliest stages of her career, Marianne Dissard – Frenchwoman living in the States – has always looked for exceptional co-operation and innovative interpretation. Among others, her summer tour of 2009 brought her to Italy, home of a lot of followers of Giant Sand and Calexico – two bands she has been friends with for a long time. Together with the Italian pianist Christian Ravaglioli she created the musical gem « La peau de lait », brought to the public exclusively on Le Pop 5. The radical but yet poetical confrontation of liability to nostalgia and political truth is the subject matter of the song. The arrangement is the ideal musical scope for the interplay of words and syllables. By the way, Marianne Dissard has been awarded the renowned Charles Cros prize « Coup de Coeur » for her songwriting.
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Benjamin Biolay

His connections to French VIPs didn’t exactly cut the ice with the critics and his omni-presence in the yellow press provided a logical explanation for his success. If there are still non-believers of Biolay’s songwriting talent and his quality as an arranger they should have a close listen to his new album « La superbe ». Being more intensive, profound and exciting, it exceeds everything he has done before, including the vast number of compositions and remittance work for befriended and related artists. Everything is fascinating about « Ton héritage »: melody, recitation and atmosphere. We are stunned.
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Holden

Mi-i-i-i-a-a-a-a ... this light-footed catchy disco sound is Holden’s contribution and a genuine dance hit. Mia is the name of the common child of the band’s founding members Mocked and Armelle. The song has preserved the charm of collective improvisation, which could be witnessed in « Madrid » or « Tunis », Holden’s songs from former Le Pop compilations. « Fantomatisme », the band’s fourth album starts with the simple request « Il faut faire attention...» (You must be careful or You must pay close attention). Both are relevant, since the musical spread of the band ranges form Bossa Nova, Bluegrass and Retro-Futurism to Hippy Folk – at times balancing on the fence, but always consistent with the typical Holden sound tradition in which producer Uwe Schmidt (alias Senor Cocoñut) has played a part for the third time now.
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Mathieu Boogaerts

Innovative in style and grace, keen on new experiences and extremely musical: a perfect description for Mathieu Boogaerts, our comrade-in-arms from the very beginning. Following his quiet and rather introverted masterpiece « Michel » his new album has a new orientation. « I love you » is loud, danceable and heavy on rhythm. An extreme shift indeed. Still, people familiar with Boogaerts’ former work won’t be too flabbergasted by this new side, since in the early stage of his career the African and Jamaican influences were more prevalent than lately. « Allez » one of his new songs, is great proof of how he remains true to himself despite his changes. A link between the old Boogaerts and the new Boogaerts.
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Mickey 3D

If luck really has the power to scare you, like Mickey 3 D sings, you should really watch out for his new album « La Grande Evasion ». In this splendid album Mickael Furnon originated 14 songs , most of them bearing great hit potential. Over the years he remained true to his musical concept to mix classical indie-gitarre-pop with chanson. But this time he outdid himself and it’s truly time for the trio to have their voices heard outside of the francophone horizon. We’ll make sure to steal front-row seats!
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Mélanie Pain

This is a first: Mélanie Pain is on three of our consecutive samplers without having yet released her first Solo-album. But good things come to those who wait. Very good things, actually. Maybe it’s a good thing we didn’t know her duet-partner emerged form a TV-casting show, that way we were open minded and able to enjoy listening to their beautiful song. Julien Dore’s striking voice offers a perfect contrast to the fragile vocals of the Nouvelle Vague singer. It’s not a coincidence that we feel reminded of the duets between Isobel Campbell and Markus Lannegan.
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Cœur De Pirate

Béatrice Martin got herself quite a fitting artistic name, alias Coeur de Pirate. Since her solo album was released in Canada last year, no matter where else it came out she has boarded the charts. A real success story for the 20-year old artist and a definite sensation for the small label « La Grosse Boite ». « Comme des enfants » is the song which unleashed the crazy hype and shows once again why pop music is so unpredictable: being simple, unfussy and straight forward – qualities lots of people would like to have. The truth is that they result from having a whole lot of talent. And talent is something Coeur de Pirate certainly has. We are curious to see where her ship is headed.
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