Monsieur Pas De Merde is a huge fan of both the Liminanas and Bertrand Belin, so this recent clip was a real find. Listen and tell me what you think!
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Chanson du Jour: Hypernuit
I love this one – Mike
Chanson Du Jour: The Tuileries
Camélia Jordana & Bertrand Belin – The Tuileries
Poem by Victor Hugo set to music by Colette Magny.
December 8, 2013 at the 50th anniversary of France-Inter.
We are two funny
To the broad shoulders,
Merry bandits,
Knowing to laugh and beat,
Eating like four,
Drinking like ten.
When, emptying the liters,
We bump to the windows of
the estaminet,
The bourgeois deforms
Tremble in uniform
Under his big bonnet.
We live. In short,
We are an honest man,
We are not a spy.
We go on Sunday,
with Lise or Blanche,
Dinner with Richard.
We live without shelter,
greedily and quickly,
Like the sparrow, Raising
our whims
Until the singers
From Bobino.
Life is diverse,
We brave the shower
That wets our skins;
Still in ribotes
Having few boots
And no hats.
We have drunkenness,
Love, youth, Lightning
in our eyes,
Frightful fists;
We are devils,
We are gods!
Our two seigniaries
Go to the Tuileries To
stroll willingly,
And to say things
To the pink maids
Under the chestnut trees.
Beneath the green shadows Desert
ramps
We wander in the evening,
Water is leaking, the roofs smoke,
The chandeliers light up,
In the black castle.
Our soul collects
What the sheet says
At the end of the day,
The air that a gnome sings.
And, Place Vendome,
The sound of the drum.
The white statues
Pretty little clothed,
Discover their breast,
And make us signs
Whose swans dream
On the great basin.
O Rome! O City!
Annibal, quiet,
About us , schoolboys,
Fixing his vague eyes,
Shows us the rings
Of his knights.
The terrace is brown.
As the moon
fills it with clarity, with
shadows and lies
Chanson Du Jour: Where Are We Now?
Bertrand Belin performs a cover of David Bowie’s “Where are we now?”
Chanson Du Jour 10/8/16
Pauline Croze et Bertrand Belin singing The Door’s “People Are Strange” from 2007.
Chanson Du Jour 10/6/16
Bertrand Belin avec Camélia Jordana: “Le Mot Juste”
Great duet vocals, great overall vibe. Nearly as cool as Sinatra/Hazelwood’s “Some Velvet Morning.” I can’t stop playing it.
TRANSLATION
If you think there
If you think there is better for you
Go
If it costs you to see a road
Without borrow
Go
We forget you
We can do that
But for now
To our happiness
Prepare thy farewell
You want
There’s nothing here for a party
Only the beautiful gesture
Only the right word
Prepare thy farewell
You want
We look dear friend
Only the beautiful gesture
Only the right word
If you think there
The rain does not wet
People like you
Go
If you think there
Dogs do not bark
On people like you
Go
We forget you
It is known to do that
But for now
To our happiness
Prepare thy farewell
You want
There’s nothing here for a party
Only the beautiful gesture
Only the right word
We look dear friend
Only the beautiful gesture
Only the right word
Prepare thy farewell
You want
There’s nothing here for a party
Only the beautiful gesture
Only the right word