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Fabric Type: 0807297090925 Graphics Memory Size: Soundtrack, Import Maximum Color Depth: Stereo Deluxe Metal Type: Stereo Deluxe Processor Count: 1 Total Firewire Ports: Stereo Deluxe Total Parallel Ports: July 09, 2007 Stereo Deluxe Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Album Description: Nouvelle Vague is the exceptionally successful project of French music producers Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin. Their unusual and charming rearrangements of various new wave and post-punk classics have become classics themselves. As such, Libaux and Collin have, with help from their singers (among others Melanie Pain, Gerald Toto), bared the heart and soul of songs by Joy Division, The Clash and Blondie and translated them into chanson and bossa nova on their last two albums. For the Coming Home compilation, they have come up with the special concept of compiling 20 pieces taken from movie soundtracks. From the elegance of John Barry ("007 And Counting" from Diamonds Are Forever) to the much-sampled alien funk of Alain Goraguer ("Deshominisation" from La Planète Sauvage) to the cool sarcasm of Serge Gainsbourg ("Requiem Pur Un Con" from Le Pacha) to Vangelis' opulent "La Petite Fille De La Mer" from L'Apocalypse Des Animaux, their universe has no limits. With this Coming Home episode, Nouvelle Vague accomplish the rare feat of creating their own oeuvre from compositions of the most diverse of masters from various decades into a homogeneous context that knows exactly how the dramaturgy of their own mind-movie works. C'est magnifique!
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