After the runaway success of her charming, folksy first album, Quelqu'un M'a Dit, Carla Bruni's sophomore effort takes a more difficult route and sees her setting canonical works by such poets as Yeats and Emily Dickinson to music. The lines "Wrapping that foul body up/In as foul a rag" in Yeats' "Those Dancing Days Are Gone" are delivered almost winsomely, where in fact the word "foul" should be allowed to drag, and to weigh down the rest of the line. Metered verse cannot fit this sort of verse-verse-chorus model. Of course, an album must be judged on its musical merits, and the overall mixture of rhythm and pedal steel guitars, with a touch of harmonica here and there, is a serviceable foil to Bruni's smoky voice. Although this impersonal set of disparate poems is often set to incongruous arrangements, the doo wop piano-and-guitar jam on Dickinson's "If You Were Coming in the Fall" is a highlight, lending itself oddly well to Bruni's sauce.
I hadn't heard any of Carla Bruni's music before today and assumed, possibly incorrectly, that it was just crap. And then I found this. Quite a groovey little ditty, 'Those Dancing Days Are Gone', is quite possibly the last thing I would have expected to hear from the future/current/not-bloody-likely French first lady. Check out the link. Posted by the peeps at Raised on Indie.
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'No Promises' Very PromisingCarla Bruni's sophomore album, this time in English.Arpit.AM Music Blog
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Which one of them is luckier? The guy who became president and married a hot and talented ex-supermodel turned singer-songwriter, or the ex-supermodel who found a new flourishing career as a singer-songwriter and married a president?Oh well..
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I hadn't heard any of Carla Bruni's music before today and assumed, possibly incorrectly, that it was just crap. And then I found this. Quite a groovey little ditty, 'Those Dancing Days Are Gone', is quite possibly the last thing I would have expected to hear from the future/current/not-bloody-likely French first lady. Check out the link. Posted by the peeps at Raised on Indie.
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'No Promises' Very PromisingCarla Bruni's sophomore album, this time in English.Arpit.AM Music Blog
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