In 2001, due to unknown reasons, Louise Attaque split. Two of its members (singer Gaëtan Roussel and violinist Arnaud Samuel) formed Tarmac. It is pretty obvious that they didn’t try to revolutionaise the french folk music, as their sound is Louise Attaquesque to the bone. And we thank them for that:
Notre Epoque
La lune
Tarmac – La lune
More Tarmac and Louise Attaque
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wir jagen die monotomie
3 A.M. disco flavoured track
Classic Detroit
Metro Area’s predecessors
I first heard it in a mix by Prins Thomas
From their (Phillip Zdar and Etienne de Crecy) seminal album Pansoul released back in 1996.
They’re friends with Bjork!
Now that I have your attention, please enjoy this bizarre experiment, that can only be classified as as a pop version of the musique concrète genre.
Undone
Alarm Call
In 1998, Matmos remixed the Björk single Alarm Call. Subsequently, Matmos worked with Björk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medúlla (2004), as well as her Vespertine and Greatest Hits tours.
Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot – Bonsoir Moreau
Nathan Abshire – Jolie Blond
Clifton Chenier – Don’t Lie to Me
Zydeco, a transliteration in English of ‘zaricô’ (Snapbeans) from the song, “Les haricots sont pas salés”, born in Cajun and Black Creole communities on the prairies of southwest Louisiana in the 1920s, is considered by many, if not most, as the Black Creole music of Louisiana. Zydeco purportedly hails from “Là-là”, a genre of music now defunct, and old south Louisiana jurés. As Cajun French was the french language of the prairies of southwest Louisiana, zydeco was initially sung only in Creole or French. Later, Creole-speaking Black Creoles added a new linguistic element to zydeco music. Today, most of zydeco’s new generation sings in English or Cajun French with a few in Louisiana Creole French.
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