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Motifs
Paris Combo
Motifs
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
 
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With a sound made up of equal parts bossa nova and classic chanson transported almost unchanged from the 1960s, plus American jazz, Argentinean Tango, bal musette and the Manouche swing made famous by Django Reinhardt, Par...  more »

     
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All Artists: Paris Combo
Title: Motifs
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Mra
Release Date: 11/15/2004
Album Type: Import
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Europe, Continental Europe, Euro Pop, French Pop, Cabaret
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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With a sound made up of equal parts bossa nova and classic chanson transported almost unchanged from the 1960s, plus American jazz, Argentinean Tango, bal musette and the Manouche swing made famous by Django Reinhardt, Paris Combo undeniably personifies that city's aesthetic. French music and film tend to share an elegant, humorless, surreal, coolly theatrical artificiality so ingrained that observed or remembered passion becomes more seductive than the real thing. Style-over-substance is merely a different reality, no less involving than daily life. The band's membership includes a guitarist from Madagascar, a keyboardist/trumpeter from Australia, a French drummer and a French-Algerian guitarist, each of whom contribute whimsical, cosmopolitan images from their own travels. Bandleader-singer Belle du Berry's lyrics are wry metaphors, in which estrangement, loss and desire are experienced in nightclubs under the light of pink lampshades and each carefully posed film-noir frame is wreathed in expensive perfume and cigarette smoke. --Christina Roden

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