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Serge Gainsbourg

CD Serge Gainsbourg No.2

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  • Issued : 27 Feb 2001
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Genre : World Catalogue Number : 5486082
Format : CD Label : Universal
Issued : 27 Feb 2001 Item sourced from : France
Original Release Year : 2001   
Number of Discs : 1

Serge Gainsbourg No.2

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The late Serge Gainsbourg made a name for himself fairly early in his recording career with his combination of French cabaret music, bordello jazz, and drunken musique exotica. His second effort features Gainsbourg with a cigarette, appropriately seated at a worn desk littered with roses, a long-nosed 38 caliber placed squarely in front of him, and a quizzical, daring look on his puss that seems to say, Can't figure it out? Of course! Gainsbourg actually attempted singing in the early days, before his voice began to go and all he could do was whisper or rant his crazy poetry. Here he fronts the Alain Goraguer Orchestra on eight selections that are as typical of his oeuvre as Love on the Beat was nearly 30 years later. His topics are the seduction site of the jukebox on Le Claquer de Doights and a theme based on d'Alfred de Musset's Night Doctor. There are also a couple of Latin-styled numbers in Mambo Miam Miam and Indifferente, with a serious Stan Getz-aped sax solo in the middle eight (not to mention a crazy TV western theme as a cabaret song in Jeunes Femmes et Vieux Messieurs). This is truly the beginning of Gainsbourg's hepcat legend, and musically, for all the kitsch and gimmick, it comes across as totally sincere in its campy chariot. This is why we dig French pop, and this is why Gainsbourg holds sway with everyone from Nick Cave to Angie Stone. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi

Credits

Alain Goraguer(Arranger),  Alain Goraguer(Director),  H. Guilbaud(Photography),  Jacques Aubert(Photography),  Jean Francois Brieu(Liner Notes),  Jean-Marie Guerin(Remastering),  Jean-Pierre Haie(Remastering),  Jean-Yves Billet(Concept),  Derek Bourgeois(Artistic Producer),  Jean-Yves Billet(Realization)

Songs

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    1
    Claqueur de Doigts  (03:07)
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    2
    Nuit d'Octobre  (03:05)
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    3
    Adieu Creature  (02:11)
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    4
    Anthracite  (02:32)
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    5
    Mambo Miam Miam  (02:35)
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    6
    Indifferente  (02:17)
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    7
    Jeunes Femmes et Vieux Messieurs  (02:04)
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    8
    Amour A la Papa  (02:48)

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    Damien  |  不明  |  15/December/2007

    かなり短いけど初期の名作。シャンソン、ジャズ、マンボなどをゲンズブールの感性で皮肉たっぷりにやってます。Le claqueur de doigtsは超カッコイイ。

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