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French Playground
Putumayo Presents
French Playground
Genres: International Music, Pop, Children's Music
 
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French Playground, a musical rendez-vous of fun French and French Creole songs will delight children of all ages. French Playground reflects the rich variety of Francophone music. Bilingual families and children learning...  more »

     
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All Artists: Putumayo Presents
Title: French Playground
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Putumayo World Music
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 10/4/2005
Album Type: Import
Genres: International Music, Pop, Children's Music
Styles: Euro Pop, French Pop, Sing-A-Longs
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 790248024226

Synopsis

Album Description
French Playground, a musical rendez-vous of fun French and French Creole songs will delight children of all ages. French Playground reflects the rich variety of Francophone music. Bilingual families and children learning French or English will enjoy the fact that the complete lyrics for each song are printed in both languages. The CD features full-color liner notes with artist and cultural information. The artists on French Playground include some of the most popular children?s performers in their respective countries, along with successful pop artists such as Pascal Parisot, Thomas Fersen, Tryo and Ariane Moffat whose songs were selected for their all-ages appeal. Musical styles range from French chanson and Gypsy jazz to the twoubadou music of Haiti and the roots-bending style of Triton, who is from Mauritius, an island off the east coast of Africa. Gallic joie de vivre is expressed in each of the tunes, from the opening song?s invitation to "tickle the sun" with a ladybug (Chatouiller le Ciel avec Toi), to songs that celebrate the beauty of the South of France ("Clic-Clac Oh C?est Beau!". Listeners share a boisterous Sunday dinner with family (La P?tite Monnaie). Some of the tracks provide tasty little slices of French life, including "Bonjour,Bonjour", which tells of a little bus?s journey past boulangeries and other neighborhood spots. Children will also enjoy a young man?s memories of staying with his grandparents (Petit Francais). A portion of the proceeds from the sale of French Playground will benefit Terre des Hommes, whose efforts provide active support to disadvantaged children around the world.

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CD Reviews

Jazzy CD will catch your ear right from the start!
Melanie Wilson | USA | 11/02/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Right from the start, this jazzy cd catches the ear of kids and adults

alike. Whistles and bird chirps get your attention before the music

even starts. There are no sappy voices or computerized instrumentals

present on so many kids' CDs. Putumayo obviously put as much

production value into their children's CDs as they do their adult

offerings. French speakers and non-French speakers alike will be singing or

humming along quickly.



Pascal Parisot's cut "Wonderful" mixes French and English in a

techno-pop tune that everyone in our house loves to sing and

dance to. The voices have been synthesized to match the instrumentals

in a very cool way. There are tunes that give a nod to the French

greats--"Clic-Clac Oh C'est Beau" has hints of Edith Piaf. But France

is far from the only country where French is spoken and the songs on

the CD come from around the French-speaking world including Haiti,

Mauritius, and Montreal.



The CD comes with a thoughtfully written booklet which includes an

introduction and credits along with a paragraph about each song written

in both French and English with kids in mind. Each song's lyrics are

also printed in both French and English.--Amy O'Neill Houck

"
Sympa!
La Chenille qui a fait des trous | Illinois | 11/09/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"A mon avis, c'est une excellente collection. Catchier, more upbeat and more consistently appealing than other Putumayo French music collections, in my opinion. I pop it in and can't help but sing along. I teach French (KG-6th grades) and my students enjoy it too. The lyrics are clever. I don't know what that one reviewer was talking about."
Smart assortment
mgb | New York, NY USA | 05/02/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"very smart selection. We have a 2 mos old at home and parents (1 french and 1 american - both bilingual) and baby love it. music quality is very good and is fit for adults and kids alike. lyrics are very interesting and positive, not the dumb-down or sugar-coated message kids usually get. some of the artists have a very successful mainstream/adult pop career (fersen, benabar). whoever commented that the lyrics were not suitable for kids doesn't get the cultural context that a word for word translation doesn't convey (e.g., right mr bibendum is fat but boy does he sound happy. it's seen as a quality to enjoy food "epicurien"). i find myself huming the songs while i am away from home."