Chanson Du Jour: Parfait Inconnu

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?

Agnes Obel’s Haunting Chamber Pop | Mother Jones

Alex Bruel Flagstad Agnes Obel

Citizen of Glass
Play it Again Sam

Agnes Obel’s music would be the perfect soundtrack for a scary movie, but not a brutish modern one—her haunting chamber pop belongs in the world of old-fashioned spooky films like the 1940s classics “Cat People” and “The Uninvited.” (David Lynch is reportedly a fan, which makes sense.)

Citizen of Glass, the Danish singer’s wonderfully transfixing third outing, weaves old and new instruments, including strings, piano, mellotron and the Trautonium, an early 20th-century ancestor of the synthesizer, into a luminous backdrop for her eerily composed vocals. Poised and uneasy at once, Obel seems to be revisiting episodes of extreme distress from a distance, as if seeking to dull the trauma through calm reflection. As she declares in “It’s Happening Again,” “The past isn’t dead/It’s alive, it’s happening/In the back of my head.” The result is a beautiful album likely to soothe the dark night of the soul, or induce an anxiety attack.

Source: Agnes Obel’s Haunting Chamber Pop | Mother Jones

Paris tries to woo tourists back with better English skills and a more friendly state of emergemcy

Speaking to Journal du Dimanche, she said: “We are going through an extremely difficult period, marked by terrorist attacks and extreme weather conditions.”But all is not perdu (lost).

After trips to Tokyo, New York and Boston to discuss the city’s malaise with high-level tourism professionals, Pécresse has come up with a six-point plan to woo foreign visitors back to the French capital.The plan will focus on three main areas: hospitality, quality of service and security.

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