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Motifs
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List Price: $17.98
Special Price: $17.98
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Drg
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0021471848328
Format: Enhanced
Label: Drg
Manufacturer: Drg
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Drg
Release Date: 2005-01-11
Studio: Drg
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Summary: Give me more!
Comment: After my CD arrived I quickly sammpled the songs and found myself asking "Why did you buy this?", but then after a few listenings it grew on me - or more to the point, I learned to appreciate it - now I only want more Paris Combo! After growing up in the US and growing horribly bored with US music (and it's tight pigeon holed categories) this perks up my ears - it's different.
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Summary: A wonderful CD
Comment: This is one of those CDs I can listen to from beginning to end and enjoy the whole album. It is relaxing, engaging and truly enjoyable.
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Summary: Upbeat Jazz
Comment: Paris Combo is such a great upbeat jazz group that you can listen to liven up your day. Put this cd on and it is sure to put you in a good mood. A great combination to go along with anyone who listens to Pink Martini.
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Summary: If you like Pink Martini
Comment: You'll love this CD. Obviously you don't have to know a language to enjoy music sung in it. The happy tune of this jazzy CD will make you want to dance in your car, as you make up words so that you can sing along.
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Summary: Highly entertaining, keeps you jumping
Comment: I bought this CD on the basis that several reviewers indicated that if a listener liked the works of Pink Martini, that they would like this CD by Paris Combo. Well, they are right.
Many of the things I like about Pink Martini are present here. The work is delightful, playful, fun, and danceable. You will hear the influence of jazz, pop, swing, tango, and sophisticated lounge music. In one song you will hear Kurt Weil's influence and then in the next you hear the nightclub music found in 1940 gangster films. The range of music keeps you on your toes - but all in fun. Great for a cocktail party or to get yourself going on a Saturday morning.
Belle Du Barry, the vocalist, has great presentation. All the lyrics are in French.
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