Happy Bastille Day! - Let's celebrate the music of France

[Gritter]

This one is currently being used in a lottery commercial in Canada.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NSeysrDYw

[steelguitar]

Good french music :
- Louise Attaque, 1990's :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0emXuhPTWUM
- Gaétan Roussel, singer of Louise Attaque, nowadays :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5AKfC5kV4

- Noir Désir:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfQz-9olu_g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3AaoqgmoA0

- Alain Bashung :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew1Jo8MNMVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhz8WELr00

musicaly

jean-sébastien

[64Guitars]

Thanks Jean-Sébastien. I found this French guitarist on YouTube today. Do you know of any other great French guitarists we should check out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzKVpz5ICvY
Pascal Vigné - "Chicken Race"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnBJ5wLLj7k
Pascal Vigné & Pascal Mulot - "Smooth Blues"

[danieldesete]

hello all, thanks for this thread 64
here's my list:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWHnSXYxOQ
rodolphe burger, my favorite french singer these days



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSToECekqV8
dominique A



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvCSGizQoL8
jean louis Murat



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmxoPjwnvPM
La mano Negra


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCCi_Dq1Cyc
les têtes raides try to get this tune out of your head...

daniel

[danieldesete]

i forgot yann tiersen


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtROv4pGXu0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or-iCIOgV5s

last one I promise

[henwrench]

This video is superb and the song's pretty damn good too!!


                                           henwrench

       
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC2EHKx4Kk

[dasilvasings]

A bit late, but here's my contribution:

The incomparable Serge Gainsborough, which I arrogantly dared to cover in https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=7494.0, Air and Daft Punk were already mentioned.

I leave a note for Gabriel Fauré, who wrote the most beautiful Requiem Mass. It is interesting because GF was agnostic, and even though the mass follows the Christian text, it is very instrospective. If you never heard Fauré's Requiem, just imagine what our songcrafter Nelson would write if he was a XIXth century french composer...

A friend from Clermond Ferrand recently offered me a CD with a new french band called Human?Fly. It is excellent sci-fi rock, with stylophones, theremins and russian synths. I can't find anything in youtube, but I leave you the myspace address. I really suggest a listen if you are a vintage synths freak.

http://www.myspace.com/humanfly63

Even though I'm aware I'm forgetting wonderful music (e.g. Nouvelle Vague), I'll twist slightly the topic and point the English Tindersticks, with "plus de liaisons" a French version of their "no more affairs"...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY0p-pSoLmw

...and as opposite, a Youtube finding, Anne Legras (?) with a version of Supertramps' "lord is it mine" that is so much better than the original...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2rWULgVUgg

[steelguitar]

Some french guitarists I love :

-San Severino : chanson française

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGO06RS2t0

- Bireli Lagrene : jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2MO8jpDC1s

- Paul Personne : blues, chanson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUYJxi5cRrQ

- N'guyen Lê : fusion / jazz-rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcEdTGFxWtM

Musicaly

Jean-Sébastien

[steelguitar]

Others french artists :
- Manu Chao (Danieldesete have a very good musical taste...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-aMLFVhBc
- Tryo :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bvQBxszhQ0
- Cocoon :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEctVuj7Edc
- Pauline Croze :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwtURqNg8RE
- A young french singer : ZAZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOk5yYLAQvU

Musicaly
Jean-Sébastien