Le Temps Des as

'Le Cimetiere des Arlequins' is one of my fave Ange albums, and may be considered as a perfect sample of their prog style delivered at its top level of energy and expressiveness. While not being an ensamble of top-notch virtuosos, the group works really well as an ensamble, performing both their hard-edged compositions and their softer acoustic ones with the same conviction…

A smart move this on the part of Nemo. La Machine A Remonter Le Temps is a DVD/2Cd package that combines a DVD of a great live show with two Cd's of material spanning their previous six studio albums. As if the DVD alone isn't enough incentive for the already converted to shell out for this, much of the material that makes up the compilation Cd's has been remixed, remastered and even re-recorded in the case of some of the earlier songs. As an added bonus there are also two new unreleased tracks…

Georges Brassens was a French singer-songwriter and poet. He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems, as well as texts from many others such as Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, or Louis Aragon. In 1967, he received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the Académie française. Between 1952 and 1976, he recorded fourteen albums that include several popular French songs such as Les copains d'abord, Chanson pour l'Auvergnat, La mauvaise réputation, and Mourir pour des idées. Most of his texts are black humour-tinged and often anarchist-minded.

Jordi Savall & Le Concert des Nations - Le Concert Spirituel: Au temps de Louis XV (2010) {Alia Vox AVSA 9877}
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Classical / Chamber Music / Baroque

Le Concert Spirituel was essentially a Parisian concert series held at the Tuileries Palace, begun in 1725 as an opportunity for musical performances during Lent and other Holy Days when secular musical activities like opera were forbidden. The concerts continued until 1790, just after the beginning of the French Revolution. The music of French composers filled most of the programs, but German and Italian music was occasionally heard, and this CD includes five pieces by Corelli, Telemann, and Rameau that were known to have been played at the concerts. Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, one of the many stellar ensembles he is responsible for founding, play these works with such surging vibrancy that anyone who thinks of the Baroque as a period of stiff formality would be disabused of that notion on hearing these performances.

The least one can say, is that he leaves no one indifferent. If "La France profonde" identifies totally with the views in his songs, the intelligentsia has found him an ideal scapegoat. Courageous for some, demagogic for others, nothing can detract from his talent as a singer. His sales and sell-out shows speak for themselves. Judge for yourself.

This historical re-enactment of the victory of Canadian farmers over British troops in 1837 serves as a foreshadowing of the French speaking nationalist movement in Quebec during the late 1960s. A young woman and her boyfriend return to witness the conflict, which was a response to the police action by the British. The two watch the historical recreation and discuss the historic parallels between the past and the current revolutionary separatist movement.