Sophie Hunger is a Swiss singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, blues harp, piano) and bandleader, currently living in Berlin. While a child, Hunger took piano lessons for a time. She was familiar with jazz from an early age, since her father used to listen to it. Independently, she had a varying taste in music; as […]
Niagara
Niagara was a French rock band that achieved popularity both in France and Canada in the 1980s and early 1990s. The band, who was known under the name L’Ombre Jaune from 1982 to 1984, was formed in Rennes, France by vocalist Muriel Laporte and keyboardist Daniel Chenevez. Early on, the band also included guitarist José […]
Le Vent Nous Portera (Revisited)
“Le vent nous portera” (translated as “The wind will carry us”) is a song by French band Noir Desir from their 2001 album des Visages des Figures. It was released as the first single from the album and reached number one for four weeks in a row in the Italian Singles Charts, as well as […]
Adé
Adélaïde Chabannes de Balsac, known professionally by her stage name Adé, is a French musician and singer of several genres, including folk- pop. In 2013, Balsac formed the pop rock band Therapie Taxi along with Raphael Faget-Zaoui, whom she had met performing a cover of “Jimmy” by Moriaty, when she was seventeen. In 2017, having […]
Delia Derbyshire
Delia Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out notable work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s. She approached the careers office at the university and told them she was interested in “sound, music and acoustics, to which they recommended a career in either deaf aids or depth […]
Elli et Jacno
Elli et Jacno was a French 1980s electropop group comprised of Denis Quilliard (alias Jacno) and Elli Medeiros. They were quite successful in France and to some extent in Britain, having been featured once on the front page of Melody Maker magazine. Playing at the Chalet du Lac on the eastern outskirts of the French […]
Cheek to Cheek
“Cheek to Cheek” is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1934–35, specifically for the star of his new musical, Fred Astaire. The movie was Top Hat, co-starring Ginger Rogers. In the movie, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance. The song was nominated for the Best Song Oscar for 1936, which it […]
Honeysuckle Rose
“Honeysuckle Rose” is a 1929 song composed by Thomas “Fats” Waller with lyrics by Andy Razaf, during a visit to the West Side of Asbury Park, New Jersey in 1928. Waller wrote the song with Razaf at 119 Atkins Avenue in a home that still stands today. “Honeysuckle Rose” was introduced as a soft shoe […]
Vocantus
Vocantus was founded in 2020 in Elbląg by Przemysław Piejdak and Tomasz Czypul. There are three people from Elbląg in the band: Urszula Leśniewska, Marcin Skotnicki and Przemysław Piejdak. They are complemented by Eliza Fronszczyk, Kinga Skowronek and Tomasz Czypul from Gdynia. The group performs historical music from the 13th to 15th centuries on replicas […]
Anne Etchegoyen
Anne Etchegoyen is a French/Basque singer and songwriter. She was born in 1980 in Saint-Palais (in Basque Donapaleu) in the Northern Basque Country, Aquitaine. At the age of eight Etchegoyen joined a local choir in Saint-Palais Soon thereafter she would study in the musical school of Bayonne. Etchegoyen sings in Basque, French, Spanish and Gascon. […]