Étienne Daho is a French singer. He has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.

Full Title - L'etre Las - L'envers Du Miroir. Third full-length album recorded in Germany, at Empyrium's studio. The sound is very classical-oriented with amazing female vocals (a la Dead Can Dance). Packaged in a digibox limited to 3,000 copies. Avantgar

Stéphanie Alexandra Mina Sokolinski, known professionally as Soko, is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actress.

Julien Doré is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He is the winner of the fifth season of the television show Nouvelle Star, aired on the French Television M6 channel. He is also the great-great-grandson of Gustave Doré, a well-known illustrator of the 19th century

打着十九世纪后期法国著名画家古斯塔夫·多雷（Gustave Dore）直系子孙的旗号，朱利安·多雷（Julien Dore）似乎与生俱来就是艺术工作者。作为法国星光大道（Nouvelle Star）第五季冠军，朱利安的折桂不仅是因为他的外在——时尚宝典《Elle》法国版2007年第6期将其评选为“性感男人”第一名，这位从小开始组乐队的创作型才子，一路唱着麦姐的《Like A Virgin》、小甜甜的《Baby One More Time》、Radiohead的《Creep》等脍炙人口之作，不断地颠覆着原有的曲风、挑战着观众的听觉神经。今年6月，他的首张专辑《人工美学》（Ersatz）上市即登上法国专辑榜第二，可见受欢迎程度。
对于国内歌迷来说，朱利安的名字尚且陌生，但只要听听他的专辑，相信很容易被其征服。如果首支主打单曲《期限》（Les limites）中的乡村摇摆元素不能打动你的话，不要紧，听听原声吉他编配的《相思树》（Acacia），这一份清新淡雅是否有几分Damien Rice或Glen Hansard的味道？轻轻的吉他弹拨，柔和的沙槌，真挚的演唱，新都市浪漫民谣的气息瞬间将你包围。有着英式吉他范围的《海湾普特》（Bouche Pute）开头温情脉脉，到了后来加入巴黎禁卫军式的交响乐，幻化成另一番美景。《过量》（Les figures imposees）有着自然随性的调调，明亮的节奏与朱利安略显颓废的唱腔竟然相得益彰，美得让人心醉。《钢琴百合花》（Piano Lys）用玩具钢琴的音色搭配电子音效，大量的器乐和减少的人声此消彼长，现代感十足。点题式的《巴黎晚会》（Soirees Parisiennes）开头的复古Disco与新浪潮的元素让人精神为之一振，接下来的funky说唱相当草根好玩。末尾的两首描述异域风情的曲子同样精彩，充满南美风情的《在乌拉圭》（Ss In Uruguay）与《洛杉矶》（Los Angeles）中透露出美国民谣圣地的憧憬之情。
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Hand-stamped and individually numbered edition of 300 only available at selected retailers. Released to coincide with their first ever UK tour, 'Beyond The Veil' collects eight magisterial new songs from the revered cosmic psych drone duo of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte. If you're not familiar with the duo; they make magical music, painting epic, widescreen scapes of lushly layered and free-flowing instrumentation and vocals with an unquantifiable, elusive something that's far greater than the sum of its parts. It's folk music for a lysergic silent film, heavy-hearted and spilling over with yearning emotion and a speTip!

来自法国的shoegaze/ 迷幻民谣二人组合Natural Snow Buildings由男成员Mehdi Ameziane (Solo project名叫Twinsistermoon)和女成员Solange Gularte (Solo Project名叫Isengrid)组成。而<<Snowbringer Cult>>这张双CD专辑共分成了3部份。首先由Isengrid打响头炮，接力的是Twinsistermoon，最后压轴出场是Natural Snow Buildings。
由初出道至今， Natural Snow Buildings的作风十分低调，鲜有网站或报导访问。他们的唱片总是以录音带和CD-R作极少量发行，所以流通量非常低，令乐乐迷很难拥有他们的罕有唱片。<<The Snowbriger Cult>>的出现正好满足了乐迷的盼望。其实唱片本身虽然分成了3 部份，但实际上界线已变得十分模糊。Mehdi & Solange利用结他，电子合成器效果和其它手击及口吹乐器，运用丰富的想象力和编曲技巧，将他们内心响往已久的古印第安文化国度和各类欧洲民间故事与传说，透过迷离飘逸的音乐向乐迷展现。诚意推荐<<Kingdom Of The Sea>>，<<Ongon’s Rattle>>，和<<Snowbringer Cult>>。
备注：根据翻查网上资料所得， <<The Snowbringer Cult>>为欧洲古代农业社会的一种冬祭民间宗教仪式。村民于冬至后向司风雪之天神禀告，祈求一场大风雪尽快降临，之后天气回暖令万物再现生机。
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Ibeyi are 19 year old French Cuban twins, Naomi and Lisa-Kainde Diaz. They are daughters of the late Cuban percussion Anga Diaz. Naomi plays percussive instruments, the Cajon and the Batas, while Lisa plays piano. Together the twins combine modern pop, hip-hop and electronic influences with the traditional sounds of their father's Yorùbán culture.

Mademoiselle K is a four-person French rock band currently signed with EMI, as of July 2007. The band takes its name from its leader, Katerine Gierak, and so the K is for Katerine.

Released on ZE Records in 1978, this is Lizzy Mercier Descloux's first band. As far as I know this EP is the only Rosa Yemen release, before Descloux moved on to a solo career. This album is fantastic! So energetic and spastic! Comparable somewhat, if only aesthetically, to DNA, or Mars. I like this a lot more then her solo stuff, or what ive heard of it. It's much more aggressive. more info:
"Lizzy Mercier Descloux was a pioneering force in avant-garde rock and in the worldbeat genre, chalking up significant achievements in the latter field well before it existed. Tremendously precocious in an artistic sense, Mercier Descloux dropped out of art studies in order to co-manage a punk boutique and record store in Paris with future ZE Records executive Michel Esteban. In 1975 Mercier Descloux first visited New York City and fell right in with the no wave scene, becoming close friends with Richard Hell and Patti Smith, both of whom contributed material to her first book, Desiderata. Mercier Descloux recorded her first ZE Records release in 1978 as Rosa Yemen, a low-key no wave-styled effort that reflects the influence of the no wave band Mars. Little about Rosa Yemen indicated the genius that would soon carry Mercier Descloux through an unparalleled string of four innovative masterpieces to come."

Colleen is French multi-instrumentalist Cecile Schott, who uses her voice and the treble viola da gamba (a baroque instrument with gut strings), to weave intricate stories about the human mind and heart. Captain of None is the most melodic album in her repertoire, with fast-paced tracks rooted down by prominent bass lines and assorted percussive effects. It is also an album that breaks new ground for Colleen in terms of production. While previous works centered around sample-based or looped, minimal compositions, on Captain of None Schott significantly changed her approach, setting her viola and her voice as focal points. Captain of None is inhabited by delicately crafted, other-worldly pop songs incorporating dub-inspired techniques.
Captain of None was recorded, mixed, and produced entirely by Schott in her music studio in San Sebastian, Spain. Schott tried to open the gates in the way she played, sang, and wrote lyrics for the album, and set out to explore how effects like delay and echo could go from the “cosmetic sound varnish” role they usually play to a fully dynamic, constructive, song-shaping role.
Although the influence of Jamaican music is subtle, its implicit impact is felt throughout Captain of None. As a child, Schott became enamored with a cassette tape of Lee Perry tracks from 1976 to 1979. She continued to explore the music of Jamaica, awed by the amount and the variety of incredible music that was recorded with such breathtaking inventiveness. This infatuation can be heard on tracks like “Eclipse,” where Schott utilizes some of the more common dub production techniques, such as using an echo effect on the percussion and vocals. Her love of Augustus Pablo can be felt on “Salina Stars,” in which Schott uses the melodica, an instrument that she played for years but never used on her albums. She incorporates a Moogerfooger delay pedal to create vocal feedback and analog glitches, and used homemade devices — chopsticks, an Indonesian metal printing block — as percussion.
As for her unique main instrument of choice, Schott first noticed the viola da gamba in the film Tous les matins du monde when she was 15 years old. The instrument, which has been said to be the musical instrument that most resembles the sound of the human voice, heavily resonated with her. However, rather than bowing the instrument in a traditional manner, and heavily influenced by African music from different countries, genres, and eras, Schott tunes the viola da gamba like a guitar and plucks it, opening up a new world of sound that she explores in great depth on Captain of None, an addictive, unconventional pop album.

From Wiki: Blonde, Guesch Patti's 4th album, strongly marked a musical shift and a more electronic experimentation , with less commercial sounds and new collaborations with many artists including Étienne Daho (on the song "Blonde") and Françoise Hardy ("Un peu, beaucoup"). There were three singles from this album : "La Marquise", "Blonde" and "Amnésie". In addition, the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway chose them for the soundtrack of his film The Pillow Book (1996).
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