LOTW (Listen Of The Week)?

[Dusty Chalk]

Definitely listen of the week, contender for listen of the year, quite possibly listen of the decade:



Camille, Le Fil

I got so into it, I wrote a review over at amazon.com.

This album is wonderful. First of all, and foremost, the foundation of any album is the music, and this album has catchy songs from beginning to end -- perfect little pop gems that are exactly as long as they need to be, no longer, no shorter. One should be in love with the human voice to fully appreciate this album, as it is used not only for the lead instrument, but percussive, harmonic, and many other instruments -- including "raspberry" as a percussive element -- but personally, the human voice is my favourite musical instrument, and I am very enamored of Camille's, specifically. Her timbre reminds me of a place somewhere between Kate Bush's high young-girly voice, Bjork's fearless vocal gymastics (although, not quite yodeling), and perhaps Mike Patton's sheer insane versatility. The overall production is somewhat sparse, with only the occasional bass, piano, drums and whatnot accompanying her multi-layered voice. She sings in French, so for those of you who feel you must understand the lyrics, this may not be for you. I don't understand French, and I do feel I am missing something, as she strikes me as clever enough to write interesting lyrics with the occasional brilliant turn of phrase, but I guess I will just have to learn French. She's also very adventurous, and without confidence, experimentation can fall flat on its face, but Camille has so much charisma it brings a tear to my eye. I would recommend this album to fans of Todd Rundgren's A Capella, Jean-Michel Jarre's Zoolook, Beth Gibbon's Out of Season, and the works of Les Paul and Mary Ford (e.g., "Mr. Sandman").

For some reason, there are different reviews for all the different copies of this disk. On one of the other reviews, someone wrote simply "...sounds like a little girl turned loose in a studio..."

Actually, now that I think about it, that's kind of true. One just has to decide for one's self whether or not that's a bad thing. I do realize it might be for some people, but to me, I truly enjoy the occasional wide-eyed innocence/innosense/?sp. Especially when it's carried off with the bravado this recording is....erm...with which this recording is carried off...erm...whatever...

[ForeverAutumn]

In the future, can we start a new thread each week? I really hate having to start at page 20 and work my way backwards to find the new posts on an ongoing thread. I know it's not a big deal, but just a little pet peeve of mine.

I've been spinning John Denver a lot this week. Not much new to say about him. Man, that guy could sing. I'm still saddened by the loss.

[Dusty Chalk]

In the future, can we start a new thread each week? I really hate having to start at page 20 and work my way backwards to find the new posts on an ongoing thread. I know it's not a big deal, but just a little pet peeve of mine.

If you hit the little button on the main RR page, it will take you straight to where you left off (as long as you're signed in). Did you not know that?

And: this thread only had 7 posts, I didn't feel like spreading myself too thin.

[ForeverAutumn]

If you hit the little button on the main RR page, it will take you straight to where you left off (as long as you're signed in). Did you not know that?

I did not know that. Thanks for the tip.

And: this thread only had 7 posts, I didn't feel like spreading myself too thin.

Oh sure, it only has 7 posts now. But it's young. Look at Bernd's "spinning" thread...on it's 18th page already!