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Performing Monkeys in My Head

October 20, 2009

I discovered a great site today on which I found two albums that sounded as if they may be pretty good. I then found the albums on Amazon for under a fiver each. So I bought them. J’achète is the debut album by Les Singes Savants and was released in May this year. I know [...]

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Babylon Circus at The Jazz Café

October 14, 2009

Fellow Londoners should be interested to know that I have just discovered that Babylon Circus are playing at the Jazz Café, Camden Town on October 26th. Details here. You can find details of other locations on their current tour on their website. Their latest album, the first for five years, La Belle Étoile, was released [...]

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Bony Hide – Sentir que l’on est différent

October 13, 2009

Over at RockNFrance.com, you can find their Top 10 List of French Language Singles. At the top of the list as I write this is Bony Hide’s Sentir que l’on est different “feeling like you’re different” and it’s really good. This is Bony Hide’s first single. You can visit their MySpace page and their Facebook [...]

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Pépé Goes Français

October 11, 2009

I discovered a new blog today on the subject of francophone music written by a guy named Philippe Papineau who is a radio presenter and writer in Canada. I started behaving like a kid in a candy store looking for new bands and albums. I paused briefly to read his post regarding the new album [...]

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Roméo et Juliette by Abd Al Malik

October 2, 2009

I couldn’t find any MP3 vendor that would sell a copy of Dante by Abd Al Malik in the UK. Then I discovered that the album can be bought from Abd Al Malik’s website where you can also preview all the tracks. I had heard two tracks from the album previously, C’est du lourd which [...]

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A little bit of lazy loveliness

September 26, 2009

The little Amazon MP3 widget and the preview in the iTunes store contain the final 30 seconds of this 49 second song. It’s really quite pleasant and is the opening track to the punk album Compter Les Corps by the Canadian band Vulgaires Machins. I realise that three of the last four posts have been [...]

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Compter Les Corps (Body Count)

September 23, 2009

I had hoped to post another School of Rock French lesson witter today but unfortunately the real world got in the way like the enormous ball of rock that it is. As mentioned in the previous entry, I felt a bit of pain earlier after buying a whole album when I could have paid half [...]

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French songs that are stuck in my head

September 23, 2009

After finishing writing yesterday’s post, which, indidentally, took quite a bit out of poor old Chrismo, I spent a couple of hours in front of the tele catching up last with all my recorded episodes of the show Paroles de Clip on TV5 Monde. Some of the tracks I was aware of already and some, [...]

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Niagara – Religion

September 17, 2009

For some reason I had written this album off in my mind as being far too cheesy and a bit too “eighties”. Wandering through my iTunes collection today trying to avoid work, it caught my eye and I kicked it off. Currently playing in the background, this album from 1990 is way better than I [...]

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Immaculate Machine – Les uns mais pas les autres

September 15, 2009

One of the best bands (in my opinion) that I have come across while searching for great French language music is a Canadian band called Immaculate Machine. Regrettably for this site all their albums are in English, except for a half-album called Les uns mais pas les autres on which the band have taken six [...]

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