Category: Music

Chanson Du Jour: Volia l’ete (Summer)

Les Négresses Vertes – Volia l’ete (Summer)  

Heard this song playing outside at a wine tasting today, and it reminded me of a truly great band from the late ’80s – Les Négresses Vertes.

If The Waterboys had been born French, they would have sounded like these guys. Lead singer Helno Rota, who died of a heroin overdose at the age of 29, in 1993, was the real deal – a great singer, performer, and hell-raiser.

This song is from the band’s classic from 1988 Mlah  

Laura Perrudin: a delicate touch of harp at Jazz in Vienna

When we listen to this UFO pop with singular voice, impossible not to think about the universe of Björk, Portishead but also Ravel or Debussy. Laura mixes with elegance and imagination a deep groove with the most dreamlike textures, from pictorial to narrative, the spontaneity of live to the electronic hack that she loves so much  [ . . . ]

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