Weekend Sweet Sixteen

Advent Chamber Orchestra - 05-06 classical, baroque, chamber	US Army Brass Quintet - Encore! brass, classical, baroque, chamber	Anitek - Calm and Collect Volume 3 (among many others) hip hop, downtempo	Bubamara Brass Band - Bubamarija Kashtanizma Balkan brass
Umoja - Palago afro-pop, funk, highlife, African	Blake Fleming - Time's Up drum, percussion	MadMustangMix - mashups varied, remix, sampling	VA - Late '70s to Mid '80s Heroes '80s, varied
Advent Chamber Orchestra - Dec classical, baroque, chamber	Advent Chamber Orchestra - Nov classical, baroque, chamber	Ain Dreux Troyes Chartres (106 tracks of French music) varied, French	Cantonese Opera (help with the title?) opera, stage music, Chinese
Andrew Bisset - three compositions modern composition, modern classical	Netherland Dwarf - May the Piper (like the bunny!) toy music	Songs from a Random House - The 1986 Demo new wave	Soundeyet - On A Steady Diet of Hash, Bread, and Salt Greek rembetico

Dainty White Mouse

With the sheep imagery and talk of circulation, Purity Ring's "Fineshrine" calls to mind the song "Mignone Souris Blanche (Dainty White Mouse)" by Echo Lali on their La Valise aux Mille Voyages album (free download).

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MIGNONE SOURIS BLANCHE (DAINTY WHITE MOUSE)
Pets need to be treated gently, don't they? Tiny pets need extra care.

Mignone souris blanche comme un flocon de neige
Tombée un beau dimanche d'une branche légère
Jolie flocon d'argent au museau si malin
Pourquoi as-tu si peur que je sens dans ma main?
Battre ton petit coeur
Mignone souris blanche légère comme la mousse
Je te cache dans ma manche, pour ne pas que tu tousses
Jolie plume fragile au museau si malin
Lorsque je te caline j'aime sentir dans ma main
Battre ton petit coeur

ENGLISH:
Dainty white mouse like a snowflake
Fallen on a beautiful Sunday onto a light branch
Pretty flake of silver with a sharp muzzle
Why do you have the fear that I feel in my hand?
The beating of your tiny heart
Dainty white mouse light as foam
I hide you in my sleeve, so you won't catch cold
Pretty fragile feather with a sharp muzzle
When I hold you, I love to feel in my hand
The beating of your tiny heart

photo from Interspecies Love

Join the Party at the Juanitos' Place!

Every album by the French group The Juanitos is a party. The newest release, Welcome in the House of F.U.N., lives up to the band's party standards. Welcome in the House of F.U.N. delivers a sonic soul party, a vacation in the tropics, and time travel back to the swingingest '60s hot spots! There are even tips of the hat to the Chambers Brothers and Jimi Hendrix. Enjoy!

license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 France License

Freebie from Marianne Dissard and Friends

From the French sud-ouest to the American Southwest, from filmmaker to performance artist, lyricist to singer.. here's "PARIS ONE TAKES", the latest album by Tucson-based singer Marianne Dissard, available as a free download.

from official website:

Tucson chanteuse Marianne Dissard's 2010 "PARIS ONE TAKES" is a full-length live studio album that features 15 songs, culled from both her first award-winning "official" album, "L'Entredeux," produced by Joey Burns of Calexico, and her second, upcoming "official" album, "L'Abandon," due out in late 2010, recorded with Luke Doucet, BK-One, Thøger Lund and more stellar performers. "PARIS ONE TAKES' features songs co-written with Joey Burns of Calexico, Naïm Amor, Sergio Mendoza and Christian Ravaglioli.

"PARIS ONE TAKES" was recorded in Paris, France in December 2009, with Marianne's Tucson-based touring band of Brian Lopez and Geoff Hidalgo (both from Mostly Bears), Sergio Mendoza (Calexico, Y La Orkesta) and French violinist Olivier Samouillan. With a sound tight as can be from 30 dates in 1 month over 7 European countries, "PARIS ONE TAKES" is now available as a free download, a gift to all the fans and friends who helped make these past couple of years of touring a dream come true!

Thanks for listening!

Marianne

Wake Up

The city blocks have the hypnotic power to lull you off to sleep. Don't do it. Do not slip away into the sleep. It's too dangerous. You can't sleep on the train. Wake up. Vulnerable, too vulnerable, wake up, missing your stop, wake up, traveling to unknown districts, and then the startling wake up call, el despertar.

The experimental electronic and rock album Ruptures by DIY-Note is now in the Free Music Archive.

photo by Michael Cornelius, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license

album license: Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 France License

Charles-Valentin Alkan's Opuses 25 and 31

Brazillian pianist Felipe Sarro performs Opus 25 Alleluia and Opus 31 Préludes by French Romantic composer Charles-Valentin Alkan.

Alkan, one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day, was a friend and contemporary of Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin. He was a child prodigy, entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six. Alkan was a favorite of his teacher, Joseph Zimmermann, who also taught fellow composers Georges Bizet, César Franck, Charles Gounod, and Ambroise Thomas. In his twenties, Alkan was a famous virtuoso and teacher in elegant social circles. Liszt once stated that Alkan had the finest piano technique of anyone he knew. This Romantic composer was a luminary of his time.

Felipe Sarro began his musical training at the age of eight and studied at Academia Musical Fátima and Santa Cecília Musical Conservatory. In this album on the FMA, Sarro performs Alkan's Opus 31 Alleluia (1844) and Opus 25 Préludes dans touts les tons majeur et mineurs (1847) in entirety.

image: Alkan's music frequently displays idiosyncratic features, including nonstandard key signature and pedal notation, as seen in the above image showing an extract from the 2nd movement of his sonata Les Quatre Âges.

album license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License

Droopy Drops In

Hugo "Droopy" Contini delivers hard bop from Lorraine, France to the WFMU Free Music Archive on US National Jazz Day. Contini is part of the RawBounce Records collective and the alto sax man for The Real Dealers.

Once after rehearsal, the band had the space for a few more hours, so they recorded the album, Surpriscording. [more info]

photo: RawBounce Records

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Tuesday's Dozen

First in months, here is the freshest Tuesday dozen, straight from the oven

Lilliput Orkestra Love this French jazz quartet "who plays personal compositions between jazz, rock, electronic and popular music" (MySpace) [free jazz, post rock, prog]	Droopy Contini shares 2 delicious CDs, Surpriscording (solid, straight forward, hard bop) and Strikes Back! (swinging bop) [jazz, hard bop, swing]	DIY-note - Ruptures several tracks on this warm demo from France have been favorites in our home for years, especially "El Despertar" [post-rock, acoustic rock]
James Kochalka Superstar accomplished American comic book artist and writer who is also a rock musician shares many of his tunes and ramblings [pop, rock]	MonsterK7 in French sounds like monster cassette, "a little indie label fond of beautiful musical objects," dedicated to cassette tape preservation [varied]	Un Ode au Toy Piano MonsterK7 presents an international, 19-song comp celebrating the toy piano with some real pros, such as Twink [rock, pop, post-rock, cabaret]
20 Bands in a Box La Magic Box puts together annual comps of their favorite indie artists, most from France [pop, rock, France]	Brian Ellis Trustworthy CD (2005), myspace, official site [folk, psychedelic, acoustic, electro]	A Découvrir Absolument this magazine shares their own series of comps featuring today's French artists [France, folk, pop, post-rock, electro]
French Comps 01audio-video.com offers up their series of compilations showcasing modern French artists [France, folk, pop, post-rock, electro, chanson]	Aaahh-Records little German netlabel billing itself as offering "free and charming music," and they are right! [folk, acoustic, indie, pop]	Barbagallo busy in Sicily writing and performing "indie; acoustic; low-fi... alternative; experimental; prog; alt folk" check his rearranged Satie works

Les Inécoutables!

This morning was spent with old friends we met in 2002, Bide et Musique. "Bidet" is an Internet radio station featuring the worst of European novelty music 24/7. Ballads by children, love songs out of key, cartoony bubblegum, pop drivel, the unlistenable (les inécoutables) - they have it all. Tongue in cheek, Bidet knows there is some humor to be found in this oddio. Their radio window notes how many listeners are tuned in by stating the count of "sickos listening at this moment."

The Bide et Musique website is one of the best station sites around. The playlists all have scans of the recording artwork (usually 7" records) and info about each song. French speakers, you will enjoy their forums, association info, quizzes and encyclopedic database. The user comments about the dreck are hiliarious! If you are in France, you will enjoy their periodic parties!

from the site:

Bide&Musique, the cream of the cream of the webradios!

Bide&Musique, radio of the improbable gives you:

» priceless, forgotten or new bides*

» musical programming almost entirely containing discs vinyls, centered on the forgotten French variety tunes and French-speaking person of the Seventies and Eighties;

» themed programming (generic TV, eighties, italo-dance, pop, etc);

» programs devoted to the new productions of the artists of the database of B&M

» interactive communities, request shows with listener favorites, requests;

» regular evening events;

Bide&Musique, the living encyclopaedia

» An incomparable discography database, true gold mine of the French-speaking variety tune;

» interactive resources on the artists and the titles of the base;

» forums to divide, question, answer and discuss;

» many functions for fishing out info on the artists and songs, the subjects tackled in forums or the users and DJs;

» "Pochettoscope" to view images of the discs which we share;

» Quizzes to perfect bidesque culture and to have fun while learning;

» A diary to keep up to date with upcoming interesting events and shows.


*What is a bide?
Bide is piece of variety music (often sung, sometimes instrumental, sometimes one wonders) for which one has tenderness particular, to which one wishes to give an importance that it necessarily did not have in the history of the music and, of course, that one have pleasure to hear... and hear again... and...


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