Rupa & the April Fishes - Extraordinary Rendition
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Artist: Rupa & the April FishesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Music Label: Cumbancha
Soundtracks:
- (San Francisco)
- Maintenant
- Poder
- C'est Pas D'lamour
- Americaine ? Paris
- Pecheuse
- Mal De Mer
- Abeilles
- Plus Que Moi
- Not So Easy
- Peinture
- Yaad
- Wishful Thinking
Free Music Notes for Extraordinary Rendition
Free Music Review: Extraordinary Rendition Indeed
Hit: 5 Stars
I stumbled upon a review of this disc in, of all places, the Christian Science Monitor. Although I listen to classical music almost exclusively, the album sounded too intriguing to pass up: a woman of East Indian heritage; born in the Bay Area; lived in southern France; sings in French, Spanish, English and Hindi; and a physician to boot!
Well, I've had the album for a week, and it has rarely left my CD player in that time. This is exceptional, imaginative music making of the highest order, and I agree with all the positive things the other reviewers have said about it. But to add a couple of points, I don't think anyone has commented on Rupa's voice, which I would describe as soft, intimate, sensual, even otherworldly at times. She is also capable of rousing, high spiritedness. Rupa a very idiomatic singer of French, in a true bal musette style. If I didn't know otherwise, I'd easily take her for a native speaker. The band is terrific and the arrangements, imaginative. Rupa writes her own, very thoughtful lyrics, often in a metaphorical style. To the extent they are political, they are lightly so. The reviewer who called her music "agit pop" (sic) does it a disservice; it is much too subtle and imaginative for that. Nor do I agree that one of the songs is about facing anti-American prejudice in Paris. That's the starting point, but to me, it's really about the artificial categories that separate people.
With all of the different styles she embraces, you might wonder if this is just a multicultural hodge-podge. Not at all; the songs have a coherence about them, which makes them sound like different facets of one musical personality, which of course they are. Although she doesn't sound like him, she reminds me of Jacques Brel in spirit. If he is listening to Rupa, wherever he may be, I know he is smiling.
Charming artwork. If you want to find out where Rupa got the name, "The April Fishes," or why she sings in foreign languages, go to The April Fishes website--sorry, but Amazon review guidelines don't allow mention of actual urls in reviews.
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Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Rupa & the April Fishes create music that defies easy categorization. Their debut album, eXtraOrdinary rendition, echoes with influences of classic French chanson, Argentinean tango, Gypsy swing, American folk, Latin cumbias, and even hints of Indian ragas. With their progressive blend of international flavors with a youthful alternative rock energy, the trend-setting band is spearheading a multicultural movement that is redefining the sound of contemporary music. Shades of Manu Chao, Lhasa, Pink Martini, Gogol Bordello and more can be heard in their appealing, polyglot sound.International Music CDs
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