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-- PREUVES DE JEUNESSE 2009
Whether they be recent or over fifty years old, here is a selection of
songs discovered by Pol Dodu in 2009. The songs in
Preuves de jeunesse
2009 are young. Young to the ears who have
just discovered them, young because each new listen brings you joy and
energy.
-- JC BROUCHARD : Ton bon gars fera
du gras
While trying to make out the lyrics to some songs in English, sometimes
JC Brouchard's mind slips and
transforms the original songs. That's what happened with the two tracks
on his latest 7" single, Your
good guy's gonna go bald
and I'm waiting for my wife.
-- LEWIS FUREY : Portrait of the artist
as a poetic young man
On the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, and in expectation of his concerts
scheduled at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris from January
12 to 16 2010, Vivonzeureux! Records is happy to present you with "Poetic
young man", its
own selection of rare
and unreleased Lewis Furey tracks, culled from
those of his recordings that are not included in his album discography.
-- DESORDRE MUSICAL 2008
From 1949 to 2008, here's "Désordre
musical 2008", a dishevelled selection of 29 tracks that made
Pol Dodu happy in 2008.
-- TESTAMENT DU ROCK VOL. 5
Over thirty years after the release of the first four volumes on Music
For Pleasure, Vivonzeureux!
Records adds a new paragraph to the Testament of Rock by releasing volume
5 on its virtual label.
-- LEWIS FUREY TO PERFORM ON STAGE
!
Lewis
Furey will perform on July 3rd and 4th as part of the
"intimate concerts" of the Festival International de Jazz in
Montreal.
It is a particular event because, as far as I know, Lewis Furey has not
performed on stage as the main act since his very elaborate shows with
Carole Laure between 1977 and 1982. Now, it's announced he will perform
songs from his first two albums (Lewis Furey in 1975 and The humours of
Lewis Furey en 1976) with three musicians-singers.
I doubt I'll make it to Montreal, but I do hope with all my heart that
Lewis Furey will also play a few concerts in France with this set-up !
-- BACK TO 78
January 1978
: The Sex Pistols split. Post-punk can be said to start there and then.
Thirty years later, the Epernay
library will stage an exhibition from March 3 through 15 to celebrate
this fruitful musical era and I, Pol Dodu,
will give a talk on march 14 at 7 pm under the banner "Back to 78
- the new wave year".
Those who can't make it to Epernay, or would like to brush up their new
wave before that, can look up my 1995 List
of new wave classics, or browse
the 78 reviews of records labelled as new wave on Blogonzeureux !
-- POL & PAULETTE DODU : SI VOUS
PASSEZ PAR LA...
A new publication
for Vivonzeureux!, a hybrid object which superimposes the text of the
"Si vous passez par là..."
chronicles, produced for La Radio Primitive from 2004 to 2006, with the
drawings made by Paulette Dodu while she was travelling the world over
in preparation for these chronicles.
-- FAMILY FODDER : LA CHANSON DE CRAONNE
90 years
after the 1917 mutinies, 50 years after the birth of its leader leader
Alig, British cult new wave band Family
Fodder releases its version of "La
chanson de Craonne" on Vivonzeureux! Records on the occasion of Armistice
day.
-- MUSIQUE POUR SMARTIES
As a tribute
to the synthetic band who only released one album in 1980, Pol
Dodu has decided with "Musique
pour Smarties" to cover the all of the four original songs ever
released by Silicon Teens.
-- LA VIE SECRETE DE MEDIA FODDER
A life is
made up in great part of meetings. "The
secret life of Media Fodder" gives Media Fodder the opportunity
to tell us (in French) about some of the most striking ones.
-- FELT : THE EPICTORIAL JACKSON REVIEW
Felt's body of work is generally
and deceptively presented as being neat and well-ordered. Vivonzeureux!
Records disagreed and has opted to release "The
Epictorial Jackson Review", a new edition of the A side of their
"The pictorial Jackson Review" album.
-- VIVONZEUREUX! : LE FANZINE
As this site is about to celebrate its 10th birthday in march 2007, we
are happy to give you the opportunity to download all
four issues of our photocopied fanzine, distributed from hand to hand
between 1994 and 1998.
-- GRANDADDY : LES PEPITES DE PEPE
Grandaddy have just split.
For ten years, this very productive band have released many a gem outside
their albums. As a tribute to them, we have unearthed our favourite songs
from their singles and other isolated records, and they are now collected
on a specially-made compilation, "Les
pépites de Pépé" ("Grandaddy's nuggets").
-- PAULINE EASY : HAIKUKULELE
During the Winter 2005-2006, Pauline
Easy, a Polynesian girl living in Champagne-Ardenne, caused a stir
by releasing daily on her blog an instrumental cover played on her ukulele.
Pauline travelled back to her island in the Spring, and while The Pauline
Easy Project, a duo of musicians from Reims, pay a tribute to her on stage,
Vivonzeureux! releases "Haikukulélé",
a selection culled from the Pauline Easy repertory.
-- PASTIME : A NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE
What happens to nostalgia for the future when the future is now ? How
does a pastime evolve when time
passes ? Vast questions to which we give a first hint of answer by reissuing
a new wave cassette compilation from 1981.
-- GEORGES, VIENS SOUFFLER LE ROCK
!
After dedicating a discographical love story to him, «Tu
m’as trompette mon amour», Vivonzeureux! deals once more with the
Georges Jouvin case, this time with "Georges,
viens souffler le rock", a compilation of his rock songbook,
if it is at all possible to talk of rock when the golden trumpet is at
the forefront !
-- LETSLIVAPPY! (WHILE WE AWAIT TOMORROW)
Maybe it had to happen, Vivonzeureux! has now got its own blog, Blogonzeureux!.
Not to write about Pol Dodu's life, no, just to tell about his records
(although both are very entwined, agreed), with one post a day (if he
keeps the pace). This blog should follow suit after such articles on this
site as "Stop me (not) if you've heard
this one before !", "The
optimistic hip-pop discotheque" et "New
wave classics". Like these articles, the blog will only be available
in French, but you can always look at the record covers and titles, and
ask some software to translate for you : at least you're sure to be in
for some fun when you read the translation !
-- RADIO VIVONZEUREUX! : VERSION 2.0
IS ONLINE
OK. Done. Thanks to free software Radio
Blog, we are now able to propose you to listen simply and without
ads to Radio Vivonzeureux! (by clicking
on one of the song titles in the radio blog opposite for instance). To
know more about the songs listed, just read
our playlist commentaries.
-- PASCAL COMELADE & LE BEL CANTO
ORQUESTRA PLAY SARDANES IN VERNET-LES-BAINS
It is the night dedicated to traditional dances and airs at the Europe fair
in Vernet-les-Bains. Outside a bar, Pascal
Comelade & the Bel Canto Orquestra give an impromptu concert, unbeknown
to nearly everyone. But Vivonzeureux! Records was here to capture the event
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