Chanson Du Jour 11/30/2016: “Je t’aimais, je t’aime et je t’aimerais” by Francis Cabrel
Category: Music
Her Announces US Tour
Critically buzzing French alternative pop duo HER will embark on a North American headline tour this fall. The jaunt begins on November 5 in Brooklyn, NY at Baby’s All Right, hits major markets across the country, and comes to a close in Seattle, WA at The Crocodile on November 14.
The group just debuted the lyric video for their single “Her.”
Continuing a tradition of striking and sensual visuals, it’s an immediately engaging and entrancing clip reflective of the track’s delicate swing and undeniable soul.
“Her” has also re-released their debut EP’s Her Tape #1 & Her Live Tape #1 withRepublic Records. The six-track collection arrives soon and includes the previous international hit single “Five Minutes,” which has already amassed 1.8 million Spotify streams and nearly 800K YouTube/VEVO views.
Since emerging in 2015, HER has drawn unanimous praise from tastemakers including Complex, Noisey, The Line of Best Fit, Pigeons and Planes, Gigwise, and more. They performed this summer at the first annual France Rocks Summerfest.
Source: Her Announces US Tour, Baby’s All Right Show | French Culture
Camelia Jordana and Gaël Faure – Concert by candlelight
Discover Camelia Jordana like you’ve never seen with this concert in the intimate atmosphere! Revealed to the public through the show Nouvelle Star in 2009, Camelia Jordana continued her career alternating solo album and artistic collaboration.She is accompanied here by singer and guitarist Gaël Faure.
Watch the concert at: VIDEO. Camelia Jordana and Gaël Faure – Concert by candlelight
Chanson Du Jour: TER Centre
At 21 years old, Tim Dup is the future of French chanson. Here’s his first hit, “TER Centre.”
Chanson Du Jour: The Song from Moulin Rouge
Chanson Du Jour 11/28/2016 Toot Thielemans’ “Moulin Rouge”
“The Song from Moulin Rouge” (also known as “Where Is Your Heart”) is a popular song that first appeared in the 1952 film Moulin Rouge.
The most popular version of the song was made by Percy Faith’s Orchestra, with a vocal by Felicia Sanders in 1953.
This wonderful version is from the 1998 album “Chez Toots,” featuring the unmistakable harmonica brilliance of the late Toots Thielemans.
“I was born in Brussels in 1922. My parents had a sidewalk café where every Sunday an accordionist came to play. I played myself at age four mostly French popular songs until…much later when I bought a harmonica, then a guitar and heard my first jazz record.” ~ Toots Thielemans
Louise Robard a new smile in the vocal jazz landscape
With a gypsy jazz guitarist father, Louise Robard was quickly affected by fire of jazz. She made her lines at the Conservatoire de Rennes. Pascal Salmon, one of his former professors is not surprised to see Jazz in the West: “She was already what we now hear all the shoots were already there as watering is not done […]
:Full Story at: Louise Robard a new smile in the vocal jazz landscape


