Goldenvoice presents
Nouvelle Vague
with Findlay Brown
- When
- Sun Feb 7, 2010
- Where
- The Regency Ballroom
- Time
- show @ 8:00pm
- Cost
- $23.50
- Tags
- Music
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Description
Nouvelle Vague, the French band that conquered the world with bossa nova covers of punk and new wave classics, return in time for summer with their third album, NV3.Led by producer/arrangers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux and sung by a revolving cast of chanteuses, the group's first two albums, Nouvelle Vague (2004) and Bande A Part (2006) have sold well over half-a-million copies. Not wishing to tinker with this winning formula, but evolving all the same, NV3 picks up where Bande A Part left off, and this time they're joined by some famous names.
On their debut, Nouvelle Vague took cherished tracks from the late 1970s and early 1980s by acts such as Joy Division, The Clash, The Cure, Depeche Mode and the Dead Kennedys and reworked them in a gentle bossa nova style. Sung by French female vocalists, some of whom had never heard the originals before, these cult hits had new life breathed into them, and their meanings became softly subverted. In French, Nouvelle Vague means "new wave", and "bossa nova" in Portuguese. Even the records' sleeves wittily referenced the artwork for Jean Luc Godard's early-'60s new-wave films.
"The original concept of Nouvelle Vague was to use young girl singers who don't know the meaning of punk and post-punk music," says Marc Collin, in whose Paris studio the records are made. "That way, they are bringing something new and totally fresh to the songs, and it really worked. So we kept doing it in this direction."
So on NV3 you'll encounter Depeche Mode's Martin Gore singing "Master and Servant" with Nouvelle Vague's leading lady Melanie Pain; Ian McCulloch of Echo And The Bunnymen duetting with Melanie on "All My Colours"; Marina Celeste performing "Our Lips Are Sealed" with Terry Hall of the Specials and Funboy Three (that's a Go-Go's track penned by Hall); and Magazine's "Parade" sung by Barry Adamson and NV's Nadeah Miranda. For additional tracks that didn't make the final album, Chris Bailey from legendary Kiwi rockers The Saints performs a duet, likewise Samy Birnbach of noted Belgian new-wavers Minimal Compact.
That's Nouvelle Vague: they take the songs that you adore and make you fall in love with them all over again.
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