Tuesday, September 24, 2013

NEW RELEASES - BRIGITTE BARDOT, JACQUES BREL, PIERO PICCIONI

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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