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2×12″ 20th Year Anniversary Ltd Ed inc 9 Bonus Tracks – Audio Remastered for Vinyl.
Jazz Bossa Nova Style Reworks Of Classic Pop Tunes – Excellent Reworks Of Favourite Hits – Essential Purchase To The Open Minded
French musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux are the duo behind the cleverly named Nouvelle Vague, which translates as new wave in English and bossa nova in Portuguese. The name gets to the very essence of the idea behind these songs – post punk new wave tracks re-played in a mellow bossa nova / easy latin style, fronted by a parade of guest female vocalists (six French, one Brazilian and one New Yorker). Joy Division, PIL, The Clash, The Specials, Depeche Mode, The Undertones, XTC, Sisters Of Mercy, Tuxedomoon, The Cure, The Dead Kennedys, Killing Joke and Modern English are all given the Nouvelle Vague homage, showing the brilliance of the original compositions, while breathing new life into them. Whether you grew up with these songs in the late 70s / early 80s, or are coming to them afresh, you have to agree that this LP is a bit special.
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2006 Covers LP Feat Reworks of Many Hits in Downbeat Bossa Nova, New Wave, Jazzy Flavad Grooves – Repressed With Free Download Code Of LP
It was something of a small miracle that the first Nouvelle Vague album managed to avoid the seemingly inherent kitsch of covering new wave classics as slinky bossa nova. Unfortunately, the group doesn’t quite pull it off the second time around. Bande a Part has several songs that meet the standard set by Nouvelle Vague: “The Killing Moon,” “Dance with Me,” and “O Pamela” translate well into bossa nova ballads and manage to keep the songs’ and the singers’ dignity intact, while the Cramps’ “Human Fly” sounds nearly as mischievous — and a lot more elegant — in Nouvelle Vague’s hands. There are also a few downright silly moments. The version of “Pride (In the Name of Love)” feels like it’s trying to be as serious as the original yet flip at the same time, and ends up failing on both counts, while “Dancing with Myself” sounds more like a reinvention of Lou Bega’s “Mambo N