The Rough Guide to Paris Cafe Music
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import
CD Release Date: 2002-03-04
Music Label: World Music Network
Soundtracks:
- J'Ai Un Trou Dans Ma Tete - Ramses
- Coudes A Coudes - Jean Corti
- C'est Un Rital - Michele Bernard
- Lo Mometto - Didier Pauvert
- Portrait D'un 78 Tard - Les Primitifs Du Futur
- Mado - Emil Vacher
- Avec Entrain - Le Denecheau Jase Musette
- Vas-Y Mimile - Marc Perrone
- La Der Des Der - Frehel
- La Der Des Der - Les Hurlements D'Leo
- Minor Swing - New Quintette Du Hot Club De France
- La Roulotte - Louis Corchia
- Paris, Oct. 61 - La Tordue
- La Godasse - Michel Macias
- Au Comptoir - Debout Sur Le Zinc
- Petit Poucet - Garard Pierron
- Joseph, Jospeh - Jo Privat
- Je Ne Suis Qui'Un Attarde - Bell Ceil
- Afro-Musette - Richard Galliano
- Rue De Paname - Les Ogres De Barback
- Para Lo Lop - Antonin Bouscatel
- Mandlinette - Charles Peguri
- L'Accordeoniste - Edith Piaf
- Jeannette - Gus Viseur Et Son Ensemble
- L'Orphelin De La Java - Francis Lemarque
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The Rough Guide To Paris Café Music conjures up the romantic image of accordion music floating through wisps of smoke from a Gitane, the voice of Edith Piaf and a moonlit Eiffel Tower. This style of music is known as bal-musette and grew from the music of the immigrant communities in Paris at the turn of the last century. This unique and comprehensive collection traces the music from its lowly roots in the café-charbons to its modern incarnations in modern jazz and rock-musette with tracks from its seminal artists.Cap at a rakish angle, Gitane hanging from the lip... as Guillaume Veillet's liner note points out, Paris's most indigenous music may seem a trifle cozy, but The Rough Guide to Paris Café Music shows the inaccuracies of that prejudice. The origins of French café music may lie in the Auvergne, whose musicians played the smallpipes, but the biggest influence that fed into the music came from Italy, with an organetto tradition traced to Nascente's Bar Italia (the other big influence came from the gypsy world). The Bal Musette café ballroom was the melting pot in which the smallpipes gave way to the accordion and stars began to emerge. Emile Vacher and Charles Peguri were the founding fathers of this tradition, and they're both present on this entrancing new Rough Guide installment. We also hear Jean Corti, who played in a military brothel in the 1940s, and the drug-addicted Fréhel, whose smoky tones are the authentic sound of the 1920s. The variety of styles in these 25 tracks is dazzling, as hot jazz alternates with modern cool. Django Reinhardt's son Babik beats up a lovely storm with the New Quintette du Hot Club de France; meanwhile, Edith Piaf sings a song called "L'Accordeoniste." And if you're hooked on this instrument, get a copy of Wergo's Global Accordion: Early Recordings, a marvelous cornucopia of vanished sounds. --Michael Church
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