Category: Music

Camille O’Sullivan’s Jacques Brel is sexy, wild and dangerous

Before his concerts, the legendary Belgian singer-songwriter Jaques Brel would be physically sick with stage fright.

Camille O’Sullivan’s renditions of his music capture that sense of knife-edge tension. One of Britain’s leading chanteuses, O’Sullivan made an abrupt career change from architect to torch singer in 1999, after a near-fatal car crash inspired her to start anew.
Her cabaret shows have since become an institution at the Edinburgh Fringe, re-imagining songs by David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Nick Cave. Those songwriters have a shared ancestor in Brel: in the Fifties, his lyrical chansons inspired a new generation of Anglophone singer-poets […]

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The irresistible rise of Tim Dup

Many predict him a great career. At 21 Tim Dup is the new darling of French song. An artist in singular style and already affirmed that doing now learning of the stage, waiting for a first album in 2017

He was spotted on the internet thanks to its title “TER Centre”. A song about the daily grind of a trip TER between the campaign as he says and Panama. A journey that makes itself between Rambouillet where he lives and the capital where he studied. […]

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New Yann Tiersen Release and Contest | French Culture

Following the release of EUSA, a brand new album of piano compositions recorded live at Abbey Road, Yann Tiersen is launching a competition to find the best and most interesting interpretations of tracks from the album.

There are three categories for entry: Best Overall Performance, Most Interesting Location and Best Non-Piano Performance. Fans are asked to upload their interpretations tohttp://myeusa.com and three winners, chosen by Yann Tiersen, will win a signed toy piano (the same kind that Tiersen performs with on the current tour), plus signed EUSA goodies. The competition closes on January 13, 2017, and winners will be announced on January 23. Further information available fromhttp://myeusa.com.

Watch + share a brand new video of Tiersen playing his track “Yuzin” live at Abbey Road here  […]

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Agnes Obel and delicacy delight the Casino de Paris

 

The Danish singer Agnes Obel unveiled the sophisticated dreamlike melancholy and who lives his third album released last month, “Citizen of glass” on Tuesday night at the Casino de Paris, in a concert that offered beautiful chills.

“When I’m on stage, everything becomes different. I think of her, the public, to myself, fear of the wrong note, the obligation to sing well. All these things come upon me suddenly. The moment becomes an ordeal” […]

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