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Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 6 June 2010 CE
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Sin Agog
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 6 June 2010 CE
Jun 07, 2010, 18:03
IanB wrote:
Sin Agog wrote:
Alain Bashung - L'Imprudence (This guy's sort of like the French Scott Walker, I guess. Started out making forgettable chanson music in the '70s, but then made his own Tilt and The Drift with Fantasie Militaire and this)


Well said, genius album. Even with the language barrier this should have been a big record in Art Rock circles, at very least it should have been a big record with the critics but I wouldn't know it existed had a friend's husband not played on it. Anyway, can't recommend it highly enough and for those who are a bit squeemish of the contemporary classical scene this has more tunes than either of Tilt or Drift.


I got sent a copy by my French music geek cousin, Michel (he's the one who also turned me onto Brigitte Fontaine and Catherine Ribeiro). It definitely doesn't plumb the depths of despair as much as Walker's later albums, but it comes close. I would have figured L'Imprudence might have managed to take off with fans of Talk Talk, Bjork or some of the darker trip-hop acts, but I guess no celebrity fan came out and endorsed it so it's been relegated to obscurity...for now. I think Marc Ribot and Arto Lindsay's guitar playing can be heard at some point. If either of them are your friend's husband, that's pretty cool!
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