Camille - Le Fil

Forget everything you thought you knew about the new French scene.

Meet Camille, 26. A vocal sensation of her own. And a lot more. A Paris-based singer and pianist, Camille has a major in politics and her very own take on songwriting.

You might have spotted her unique tone on last year's 'Nouvelle Vague' concept album (bossa & 60s pop covers of new wave hits from the 80s) or as a guest on Jean-Louis Murat's 'Lilith'. Camille's cover of Clash's 'Guns of Brixton' with Nouvelle Vague can be sampled here (ram).

'Le Fil' (Virgin / EMI), released today in France, is her second LP, and a major follow-up to her debut 'Le Sac des filles' (2002, Source / Virgin). An incredibly personal set of 15 tracks pieced together by a 'humming thread', 'Le Fil' is about love, loss, identity, sense and nonsense.

Strangely woven lyrics combined with vocal rhythmic wizardry, piano, double bass, distant horns and Camille's very own tricks make 'Le Fil' the most interesting French album released in what... decades?

Musically, it sounds as a hypnotic mash-up of Steve Reich, pygmy chants, organic R 'n B, and gallic gospel. But don't be offset by these references. Camille is in a league of her own.

A must-have.

Camille's Website

Buy 'Le Fil' from Amazon (France • US)

If you're in Paris early March, make sure you catch one of her upcoming gigs (Théâtre des Blancs-Manteaux, March 2-5 and 9-12). On stage, she'll definitely win you over.

Comments

[inclassable]

I love her too :)

[thebeathunters]

man, running 2 blogs is a challenge! welcome & good luck!

[Guuzbourg]

Along with the new albums by Coralie Clement and Keren Ann, Le Fil makes 2005 a beautiful year for lovers of cool, sweet but stingy French girlpop. And have you heard Home by Benjamin Biolay & Chiara Mastroianni?

[Le Vilain]

Benjamin Biolay is very talented. But man, what a lousy haircut :)

[Ally23]

Thanks for the tip, just got the album and been playing it looped all weekend. Still havin some trouble getting the lyrics, though...

[hildegard]

"[...]'Le Fil' the most interesting French album released in what... decades?"
The challenger for the first place is Alain Bashung's "L'imprudence". A tremendous album too.

[Rosie]

I have heard a few of these songs, mostly on a great Aussie radio station...'Ta Douleur' is amazing! It makes me want to dance...I will definitely have to explore her music more!

[Kathryn J. Liverman]

If I had the "lettuce" I'd purchase it.
I have found that ignoring the catagory that music compositions are under leads to incredible delights. I never knew from my classical flute, piano, violin, and choir experience would ever allow me to enjoy such treats like Kurtis Blow, SugarHill Gang, Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Spira Jira, Uretha Franklin, Billy Holiday, Lue Armstrong, and Bartoc (opra).

[Kesyextimussy]

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Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the Boss is reading
it. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving
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[Squirting Archive]

ehh... 10x for style.

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