Camille - Music Hole
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Artist: CamilleEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Import
CD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Music Label: Virgin France
Soundtracks:
- Gospel with No Lord
- Canards Sauvages
- Home Is Where It Hurts
- Kfir
- Monk
- Cats and Dogs
- Money Note
- Katie's Tea
- Winter's Child
- Waves
- Sanges Sweet
Free Music Notes for Music Hole
Free Music Review: Pop delights.
Hit: 4 Stars
The 30-year-old French Camille Dalmais is still very much her own woman. And as she sings in English for the first time here, she's still venturing into pretty much unexplored vocal territory. But despite the one obvious comparison to Bobby McFerrin and to Bjork's largely a cappella album, "Medulla", "Music Hole" serves up a different kind of quirk, irony and melodic charisma.
Every track on 2005's "Le Fil" was based around the same single droning note - which was mistaken by some purchasers for a manufacturing fault - an avant-garde conceit that didn't prevent it going gold and winning the French equivalent of both the Brit award.
"Music Hole" dispenses with the drone and offers lyrics in English, but otherwise sticks with its predecessor's approach. There are odd shadings of piano and electronics and a handful of sound effects - "Money Note", a witty satire of the vocal histrionics employed by Mariah Carey, features a rhythm of clattering coins.
Otherwise, virtually every sound you hear is made by Camille herself.
"Take the Money Note" which fittingly pokes fun at divas, including Mariah Carey's penchant for ridiculously high notes: "If Dolly Parton wrote it/ And Whitney Houston stole it/If Celine Dion could reach it/ I'll hit the money note". This before breaking into an old school electronic house climax as Camille wails: "I just wanna beat Mariah! Where she herself hits a note that will make your dog's ears bleed!".
Her signature style of looped vocal scatting is still present, with instruments and electronics taking a back seat.With minimal assistance to her voice, she manages variously to tackle introspective r 'n' b balladry on "Waves" and tribally infused, uplifting gospel on "Canards Sauvages", where she sounds like she's splashing with ducks in the bath.
"The Monk" is lushly romantic, the leisurely "Gospel With No Lord" describes itself, while "Cats and Dogs" is a playful reminder that animal inscrutability does not equal intelligence.
The French singer has a remarkable voice of extraordinary range and clarity, prompting comparisons with Bj?rk, Kate Bush and even C?line Dion. "Gospel With No Lord" and "Canards Sauvages" are instantly friendly Europop, frisky and quirkily tuneful. Camille, however, aspires to greater heights.
"Home Is Where It Hurts" recalls the brooding beauty of Massive Attack, as does the cinematic storytelling "Winter Child", where the singer pushes her voice into remarkable places. In "Katie's Tea", a veritable choir of Camille's spiral deliriously upwards towards a place that could reasonably be described as pop heaven.
Les Sac des Filles
Le Fil
Med?lla
The Best of Bobby McFerrin
Music Hole Poster
2008 release from the French vocalist best known for her work with Nouvelle Vague. Before NV, she had reasonable success as both an actress and singer, but her profile outside of France has been raised considerably since her association with the band. Camille's third studio album 'Music Hole' shows a key turn in her career: it is mostly sung in English. "In 'Music Hole', I tried to mix the story-telling, "chansons" feel from musicals with something more tribal: body percussions, minimalist trance, sub bass and throat singing" says Camille. 'Music Hole' is co-produced by Camille and MaJiKer. It features collaborations with the body percussion masters from the Brazilian band Barbatuques, Jamie Cullum on piano percussions and beatbox by Sly Johnson. Virgin.International Music CDs
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