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Compiled
by Pol Dodu, december 2004.
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clicking on the underlined titles, you might get access to a downloable
MP3 file, supplied by the artists, their labels or their touring agents.
Far from any best-of
compilation or all those end-of-month, end-of-yer or end-of-the-decade
selections, this compilation gives the opportunity to Vivonzeureux! to
dwell on the records that have accompanied us recently and have provided
us with a great quantity of joy and musical pleasures, from CocoRosie
to Laura Veirs, including the Sorry But Home
Recording artists and Junkie Brewster. And
it gives you an easy access to a tonic concentration of lucidly hoptimistic
musical productions.
This collection is dominated by one instrument, the ukulele, which of
course can be heard on Tahiti's Maeva recording
from the 1950's, but also on Yayahoni's track,
one of the Herman Dune brothers who has recorded some cover songs at home,
on Sandy Burnett's and on Strasbourg ukulele
student Junkie Brewster's masterful cover
of Madonna's "Like a prayer".
CocoRosie and Laura
Veirs have provided me with good vibrations all year long, CocoRosie
with their first UFO-like album, Laura Veirs
with her latest album "Carbon glacier" as well as with the previous
ones i've only listened to recently. The French are also present : Le
Vieux Thorax is perfecting his art with each successive release
: his "Le Sarkozy du disque" his a politicomico-musical manifest,
and he's started influencing other artists (Le Pierre
Tornade Sound System) ; I have also studied with great interest
Superflu's past, and especially "Mékita",
while waiting for their third album, scheduled for release in 2005 on
a new label. And above all, I've had a ball with the releases by the grenoble-based
Sorry But Home Recording label, especially those by its leading lights
Les Frères Nubuck and Bingo
BIll Orchestra.
Sufjan Stevens, an escapee from The Danielson
Famile, has been much talked about following his recent solo records,
but I prefer his comparatively older Christmas song selected here, that
I got to know through a compilation released by the A
découvrir absolument webzine. Jonathan
Richman has toured Europe twice again this year (including a concert
in Paris), and has released an album with the a fleshed-out orchestration,
provided notably by Greg "Curly" Keranen's double bass.
Sandy Burnett (Jim Shepherd from The Jasmine Minks) recorded his
demo in the family living-room, using the sound of the TV the kids were
watching as an accompaniment. As for M. Ward,
he gave a very emotional performance of "Fuel for fire" on a
US morning radio show. Thsi song should find its way on his fourth album
in 2005.
Pol Dodu, décember
2004
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1
COCOROSIE : Jesus
loves me (2004)
from "La maison de mon
rêve" (Touch and Go)
info : www.konzert-buero.de/bands/cocorosie
2
LAURA VEIRS : Bedroom
eyes (2003)
from "Troubled by the
fire" (Bella Union)
info : www.lauraveirs.com
3
BINGO BILL ORCHESTRA : On a tous des défauts
(2004)
from the
best-of "200 kilos de papier" and the compilation "Les
banlieusards" (Sorry But Home Recording Records)
info : www.sorrybut.com
4
LE VIEUX THORAX : Le
Sarkozy du disque (2004)
from the
single "Le Sarkozy du disque" (Ta Gueule)
info : www.vieuxthorax.citoyenlambda.net
5
LES FRERES NUBUCK : Nils (2004)
from "Chez les nudistes
" (Sorry But Home Recording)
info : www.sorrybut.com
6
MAEVA : Mata refarefa (1958)
from "Tahiti Belle époque
vol. 4 - Songs of the atolls and the islands" (Manuiti)
info : www.playasound.com
7
YAYAHONI : Chewing-gum
(2004)
from "Yaya plays his
favourite tunes in the morning"
info : www.hermandune.com
8
SANDY BURNETT : Big star
(2004)
uneleased demo
info : www.jasmineminks.com
9
SUFJAN STEVENS : Put
the lights on the tree (2002)
from "Hark! Songs For
Christmas Volume 2" and the compilation "A découvrir
absolument volume 2"
info : www.sufjanstevens.com
10
LE PIERRE TORNADE SOUND SYSTEM : Fantomas
se défonce (2004)
from the
single "Psychodirtyshit" (Schnaps)
info
: perso.wanadoo.fr/lepierretornadesoundsystem
11
JUNKIE BREWSTER : Like
a prayer (2004)
demo released online
info : junkiebrewster.free.fr
12
SUPERFLU : Mékita
(1998)
from the "Superflu"
EP (Le Village Vert)
info : www.superflu.com
13
M. WARD : Fuel
for fire (2004)
live for the "Morning
becomes eclectic" radio show on KCRW, 6/5/2004
info : www.giantsand.com/mward
14
JONATHAN RICHMAN :
Behold the lilies of the field (2004)
from "Not so much to
be loved as to love" (Vapor)
info : www.vaporrecords.com
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