Author: Gainsbourg, Serge

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 03-04-2001

Details: Amazon.ca In 1964, Serge Gainsbourg still frequented cabarets on the Left Bank, where he enchanted a limited audience with his classy refrains. But, after an almost Confidential album, recorded with double bass and guitar, he decided to beat his jazz while it was hot and to marry it with more exotic rhythms. He therefore offers himself 5 percussionists and 12 choristers, and leaves the company of "La Javanaise" to frequent the beautiful "Joanna" or the "Poor Lola". No more existential complaints, Gainsbourg celebrates love without philosophizing ("Couleur café"), admires the height of the buildings of "New York-USA" and frolics with "Les Sambassadors", close cousins ​​of the "Girl From Ipanema". When sometimes his melancholy resists the Brazilian tunes, the African beats and the magic saxophone of Michel Portal, he rediscovers his skimpy costume of a decadent dandy and his suicidal impulses ("Quand mon 6.35 makes me look sweet"). But even if "Better to cry at nothing than to laugh at everything" ("Ces petits riens"), the twelve titles of Percussions turn out to be as playful as "Tattooed Jérémie". --Sabrina Silamo Product Description The first concept album of 1964. Serge here finds himself adapting his songs to Africa percussions 20 years before anyone else. Includes 'Poor Lola', 'New York-USA', 'Couleur Cafe' & more. Includes original artwork and extensive liner notes. 24 bit remastered. 2001 release. Standard jewel case.

UPC: 766486906525

EAN: 0731454842624

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood