BRIGITTE BARDOT - BARDOTMANIA
More of
a celebration of Brigitte Bardot in general than a straight collection of her
own recordings – a really cool 2CD package that features music from famous
Bardot films, some tracks sung by Bardot herself, and a few other numbers by
different singers too! The orchestrations are lush at the start, with lots of
the slinky tones you'd expect from postwar French films – but as things move
on, they get leaner and jazzier – especially as the new wave starts to dawn.
The package has two smaller sleeves and a booklet inside a larger slipcase –
and features material from the films Manina La Fille Sans Voiles, Une
Parisienne, Les Bijoutiers Du Clair De Lune, Et Dieu Crea La Femme, Doctor At
Sea, Vie Privee, La Bride Sur Le Cou, La Verite, and other films. ~ Dusty Groove
JACQUES BREL - SUIVE L'ETOILE: INTEGRALE DES ENREGISTREMENTS STUDIO ET LIVE 1953 TO 1977
An
incredible tribute to one of the greatest singer/songwriters of the 20th
Century – an artist we've loved for decades, and love even more in this
wonderfully complete package! The massive edition brings together 21 CDs in a
12" square hardcover book – complete with 60 pages of writings on Brel,
photos, and details on his music – interlaced with discs that include every
single original album recorded for Barclay, plus 16 unissued alternate tracks,
2 never-issued compositions, and 5 recordings making their debut on CD! And in
addition to the studio albums, the set also features three rare concerts – Les
Trois Baudets (1957), Les Adieux A L'Olympia (1966), and Le Dernier Concert
Roubaix (1967). The package is amazing, limited and numbered – and blows away
even any other previous attempts at collecting Brel's music! (Numbered limited
edition.) ~ Dusty Groove
PIERO PICCIONI - IO LA CONOSCEVO BENE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
Wonderful
wonderful stuff – exactly the kind of mod soundtrack we've really come to love
from the legendary Piero Piccioni! The music's a very cool blend of jazz and
more 60s-styled rhythms – including some groovers in the "jerk" or
"shake" modes – all served up with instrumentation that includes some
of those great organ lines that Piccioni used so well in La Deccima Vittima/The
Tenth Victim – plus some strong tenor and flute lines that really echo his
earlier work in jazz! The whole thing's wonderful – a blend of jaunty numbers
and dreamy instrumentals – all remastered nicely, and presented in a very vivid
package. (Limited to 500 copies.) ~ Dusty Groove
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