Wendy & Lisa (briefly known as Girl Bros.) are a music duo consisting of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. They began working with Prince in the early 1980s and were part of his band the Revolution. In interviews in 1986, the two reported they felt they were not getting the recognition and credit they deserved […]
Boum
“Boum!” (similar to “boom” in English) is a popular 1938 song by the French singer/songwriter Charles Trenet which won him the Grand Prix Du Disque. It was one of several songs that Trenet wrote for the film La Route enchantée, for which he also wrote the screenplay and played the leading role. The film was […]
Mary Ocher
Mary Ocher is a recording artist, performer, poet, director and visual artist. An only child to a voice and puppet theater actor (of the Obraztsov theater) father and an unemployed engineer mother, both of Jewish/Ukrainian descent. Her family immigrated to Israel in 1991 at the height of the Gulf War, first to a kibbutz in […]
Zaho de Sagazan
Zaho de Sagazan was born in December 1999 in Saint Nazaire. Daughter of the painter, sculptor and performer Olivier de Sagazan and a teacher mother, Gaelle, she has older sisters and a twin and she is the cousin of the director Lorraine de Sagazan. During her childhood in Saint Nazaire, she practiced dancing intensively, up […]
Life On Mars?
“Life on Mars?” is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie, first released on his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Bowie wrote the song as a parody of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”. “Life on Mars?” was recorded in August 1971 at Trident Studios in London, and was co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott. Bowie’s backing […]
Beth Gibbons
Beth Gibbons is an English singer-songwriter. She was born in Exeter and raised on a farm with three sisters. Her parents divorced when she was young. She attended St. Katherine’s School in Pill, in North Somerset. At 22, she moved to Bath, then Bristol to pursue her singing career, where she met Geoff Barrow, her […]
Tankus The Henge
Tankus the Henge are a British band based in London. Initially based around the songwriting of Jaz Delorean, the band has developed a style of music which they term “gonzo rock ‘n’ roll”, with influences from New Orleans jazz, psychedelic rock, 1970’s funk and songwriters such as Tom Waits and The Band. They are lyrically […]
Fascinating Rhythm
“Fascinating Rhythm” is a popular song written by George Gershwin in 1924 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was first introduced by Cliff Edwards, Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire in the Broadway musical ‘Lady Be Good’. The Astaires also recorded the song in April 1926, in London with George Gershwin on the piano. The song […]
Iko Iko
“Iko Iko” is a much covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional confrontation. The song, under the original title “Jock-A-Mo“, was written and released in 1953 as a single by James “Sugar Boy” Crawford and his Cane Cutters but it failed to […]
Vivaldi – Concerto for Strings in G major
The Concerto for Strings in G major, RV 151, commonly referred to as the Concerto alla rustica (Italian for ‘rustic concerto’), is a concerto for orchestra without soloists by Antonio Vivaldi. It was written between mid-1720 and 1730, and is one of the composer’s best-known concerti. The Concerto alla rustica, unlike some other of Vivaldi’s […]