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# ''Funeral of Queen Mary'' revisited by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos Wendy Carlos]. | # ''Funeral of Queen Mary'' revisited by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos Wendy Carlos]. | ||
#: No excerpt yet but [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt45SJ-zEUI see here]. | #: No excerpt yet but [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt45SJ-zEUI see here]. | ||
+ | # ''Scheherazade op.35'', by Rimsky-Korsakov. | ||
+ | #: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4w4_W30aQ see here]. | ||
# ''The Deutsch Mark Is Coming'', [[Tiersen]]. | # ''The Deutsch Mark Is Coming'', [[Tiersen]]. | ||
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+ | # ''Les oiseaux dans la charmille'', (from Les contes d’Hoffmann) Offenbach | ||
+ | #: (no excerpt yet but see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ULqFSK5VU here]) | ||
As a representative of minimalism, I was initially thinking of [[Tiersen]] with a piece such as ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E8B-SvBkOU La Maison]'' or ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_znFyR4Dg La Démarche]''. I finally settled for ''The Deutsch Mark Is Coming'' (from Good Bye, Lenin!) until I finally decided to pick one from the real master of the genre, [[Philip Glass]]. More about this choice can be read in my [[Blog:Fabrice/Mad_Rush|blog]]. | As a representative of minimalism, I was initially thinking of [[Tiersen]] with a piece such as ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E8B-SvBkOU La Maison]'' or ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_znFyR4Dg La Démarche]''. I finally settled for ''The Deutsch Mark Is Coming'' (from Good Bye, Lenin!) until I finally decided to pick one from the real master of the genre, [[Philip Glass]]. More about this choice can be read in my [[Blog:Fabrice/Mad_Rush|blog]]. | ||
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# ''Garota de Ipanema'', [[Jobim]], [[Vinicius de Moraes]] | # ''Garota de Ipanema'', [[Jobim]], [[Vinicius de Moraes]] | ||
#: (no excerpt yet but see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjJ4cHOW3rM here] or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LrUHQky71Y here]) | #: (no excerpt yet but see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjJ4cHOW3rM here] or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LrUHQky71Y here]) | ||
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I wanted a Bossa Nova in my list, reflecting my love for the Brazilian language (not Portuguese but how it is pronounced on a continent where it found enough space to sing and resonate). There are many enchanting songs and ''Garota de Ipanema'' is surely their best representative. The song is even good when sung in English. But it's only with the Brazilian expression that it becomes alive. | I wanted a Bossa Nova in my list, reflecting my love for the Brazilian language (not Portuguese but how it is pronounced on a continent where it found enough space to sing and resonate). There are many enchanting songs and ''Garota de Ipanema'' is surely their best representative. The song is even good when sung in English. But it's only with the Brazilian expression that it becomes alive. | ||
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvd2GZUSrW0 Je voudrais pas crever], by Serge Reggiani, singing the saddest poem of Boris Vian, "I'd hate to snuff it." Vian died 39. You never think one can actually read a poem aloud, let alone sing it. Reggiani does just that, he lets you hear a poem with a resonance that does not come from the sound of his voice. | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvd2GZUSrW0 Je voudrais pas crever], by Serge Reggiani, singing the saddest poem of Boris Vian, "I'd hate to snuff it." Vian died 39. You never think one can actually read a poem aloud, let alone sing it. Reggiani does just that, he lets you hear a poem with a resonance that does not come from the sound of his voice. | ||
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+ | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=eK1u8CHBMJ4 Nos fiançailles], by Nilda Fernandez. A voice not of this world, neither male nor female, in both [[French]] and [[Spanish]], singing joy with sadness, that lulled my 15 years old. His pronunciation of ''Fiança-ylle, où que l'on ahh-ylle'' is, oddly, proper to his interpretation (tributes pronounce normally). The clip is also highly artistic, with the concealed female who you never actually see but who seems to repeatedly reveal herself and who dominates the action. | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXV-1ZebdBs Le bal perdu], by Bourvil. [[Guillemin]], who said that Bourvil was extremely clever as well as a very nice person ("très gentil"), counted "Papa Joue Du Trombone" among his favourite songs. In a very different style, this sad song counts as one of my heart-breaking composition, interpreted better than anybody-else could by a master of ridicule and comedy. | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXV-1ZebdBs Le bal perdu], by Bourvil. [[Guillemin]], who said that Bourvil was extremely clever as well as a very nice person ("très gentil"), counted "Papa Joue Du Trombone" among his favourite songs. In a very different style, this sad song counts as one of my heart-breaking composition, interpreted better than anybody-else could by a master of ridicule and comedy. | ||
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neoT7S2CWl0 À regarder la mer], by Alain Barrière. This is to popular music what [[Carmina Burana]] is to classical music. An explosion. This sensation that someone found something that is so good, it can only work, and you can only exaggerate it and over-perform it. "Qui ne me comprend pas, ne comprend pas la mer" <wz tip="Who does not understand me, does not understand the sea.">(en)</wz>. | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neoT7S2CWl0 À regarder la mer], by Alain Barrière. This is to popular music what [[Carmina Burana]] is to classical music. An explosion. This sensation that someone found something that is so good, it can only work, and you can only exaggerate it and over-perform it. "Qui ne me comprend pas, ne comprend pas la mer" <wz tip="Who does not understand me, does not understand the sea.">(en)</wz>. | ||
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+ | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tklk596Urg Sous le soleil de Bodega], by Les Négresses Vertes, showing what France would have sounded like if it was Spanish. | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pisOAiBVNVk Foule Sentimentale], by Alain Souchon, one of the artists from my childhood whose compositions didn't grow old and retain something more than nostalgic memories. | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pisOAiBVNVk Foule Sentimentale], by Alain Souchon, one of the artists from my childhood whose compositions didn't grow old and retain something more than nostalgic memories. | ||
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cYQKDm26Kc La ville dort], by Niagara. I can't quite catch what makes such a simple song so captivating. Maybe only I've been familiar with it all this time of the 80s that have been my childhood. Or maybe this is because the singer, [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Moreno Muriel Moreno], is the archetype of the French people, with no genius but with more than enough of multiple talents to greatly compensate, full of these qualities that are innocent and pure at the same time as they are doomed and damning. | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cYQKDm26Kc La ville dort], by Niagara. I can't quite catch what makes such a simple song so captivating. Maybe only I've been familiar with it all this time of the 80s that have been my childhood. Or maybe this is because the singer, [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Moreno Muriel Moreno], is the archetype of the French people, with no genius but with more than enough of multiple talents to greatly compensate, full of these qualities that are innocent and pure at the same time as they are doomed and damning. | ||
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+ | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDVZoMlxzJA Pull marine], by Isabelle Adjani, on a music by Serge Gainsbourg. The diaphanous voice of the actress (not a singer) that verges on the spoken, with feelings and emotions substituting for the singing, makes it a sincere-looking plea for forgiveness and company from a dejected star who has it all, except what matters most. | ||
== Other interesting (in other languages) songs == | == Other interesting (in other languages) songs == |
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As a representative of minimalism, I was initially thinking of Tiersen with a piece such as La Maison or La Démarche. I finally settled for The Deutsch Mark Is Coming (from Good Bye, Lenin!) until I finally decided to pick one from the real master of the genre, Philip Glass. More about this choice can be read in my blog.
I wanted a Bossa Nova in my list, reflecting my love for the Brazilian language (not Portuguese but how it is pronounced on a continent where it found enough space to sing and resonate). There are many enchanting songs and Garota de Ipanema is surely their best representative. The song is even good when sung in English. But it's only with the Brazilian expression that it becomes alive.
The composition from Buarque does not fall in this category, but appeared to me superior in all aspects as the symbol for how Brazilian music speaks to me.
Especially if you don't know them: