Baker’s DozenIn Place: Yann Tiersen’s Favourite Albums
Fred Bowler , November 2nd, 2016 09:56
With his ninth album, EUSA, out now, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist takes Fred Jage-Bowler from the Velvets to Bill Callahan via NEU!, Vashti Bunyan and Joanna Newsom on a tour of his favourite records
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With the Eiffel Tower as our November issue cover star, we celebrate the City of Light—just one of our readers’ favorite places, revealed in the 2016 Readers’ Choice Awards.Nobody does a pastry basket quite like the hotels of Paris—it’s a little thing, to be sure, but when you add up all the little things Paris does well, all the details it has mastered over the centuries, you’ll see why it’s one of the world’s great cities. It consistently lands on our Readers’ Choice Awards list of best international cities—as it did this year, just unveiled today—so we know our readers agree.
And we know that, no matter how golden a city may seem, even the finest face adversity: It was nearly a year ago that Paris suffered its worst attack since World War II, and since then, it has faced the invisible, lingering threat of fear, the kind that troubles locals like a nervous undercurrent, and keeps travelers from visiting.
Source: Why We Love Paris
I speak to Yann Tiersen a few hours before he is due to play the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, as he continues to tour his new album Eusa. A collection of ten piano songs originally released as sheet music, Tiersen decided to record the songs after playing them live. In the midst of his tour, I find Tiersen unwell with a miserable autumn cold. “At least I don’t have to sing tonight!” he laughs, before coughing and spluttering over the phone to me some more. Despite being so unwell that he clearly should be in bed with whatever the French equivalent of Lemsip is, he continues enthusiastically. Nothing, especially not a meagre cold, will stop him conveying the love he has for his latest project – a musical mapping of his home in Ushant.
It doesn’t seem like eighteen years since Tiersen’s 1998 solo album Le Phare, or fifteen years since 2001’s Bafta winning Amélie brought him into the musical consciousness of so many. Made up of tracks from his first three studio albums, La Valse Des Monstres (1995), Rue Des Cascades(1996) and the aforementioned Le Phare, the Amélie soundtrack felt like a love letter to the bustling Parisian area of Montmartre; Le Phare, by contrast, was an album where the remote, desolate landscape of Ushant inspired Tiersen to write in self-imposed seclusion on the island. Eusa, as it is known in the local Breton language, is again providing inspiration for Tiersen’s ninth studio album; however, rather than being merely inspired by Ushant, the album is Ushant, as Tiersen uses music to paint a vivid picture of his home landscape.
The controversial publication ran a large photo of the Republican nominee on its front page.
Among the small number of American newspapers that have embraced Donald Trump’s campaign, there is one, in particular, that stands out.
It is called the Crusader — and it is one of the prominent newspapers of the Ku Klux Klan.
Under the banner “Make America Great Again,” the paper’s current issue devoted its entire front page to a lengthy defense of Trump’s message — an embrace some have labeled a de facto endorsement.
Source: KKK’s official newspaper supports Donald Trump for president – The Washington Post
Thanks to a maneuver later outlawed by Congress, Mr. Trump potentially escaped paying tens of millions of dollars in federal personal income taxes.
Source: Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes – The New York Times
Chanson Du Jour November 1,2016 Jeanne Cherhal “Parfait Inconnu”
I love this oldie from Cherhal’s 2004 album 12 Far Pa An. I haven’t seen a reputable english translation for “Parfait Inconnu.” It is surely about neither a tall glass of ice cream, nor incontinence. I think the song is about falling in love with a “perfect stranger,” while knowing we don’t really know a damn thing about him/her. Or perhaps not…
Help with a traslation, mes amis?
Pas De Merde 