MP3 Les Clochards - Sweet Tableaux

Where the Mid West meets the Left Bank. the warm homeliness of Parisian café folk with the earthiness of American country music

12 MP3 Songs in this album (44:13) !
Related styles: EASY LISTENING: Crooners/Vocals, ROCK: French Rock

People who are interested in Johnny Cash Jacques Brel Françoise Hardy should consider this download.


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Where the Mid West meets the Left Bank is the place Les Clochards inhabit, like a bunch of elegantly grizzled dilettantes, immersed in Bordeaux, Rimbaud and Johnny Cash. Les Clochardsâ sweet magic is in mixing the warm homeliness of Parisian café folk with the earthiness of American country music â at the heart of which is the contrast between Ian Nixonâs Cash-meets-Roy Orbison croon and Corinne Mateoâs rich Gallic vocals⦠the prevailing mood of the bandâs debut album is one of romantic regret through a red wine haze⦠Not that âSweet Tableauxâ is unrelentingly melancholy. Opening number âPride Prevents Pt.1â comes with ebullient accordion, shimmering surf guitar and powerfully grizzled Orbison croon all making for a carefree swing, while âLaviniaâ is possessed with campfire singalong jollity, again with Karen Cleaveâs accordion flourish to the fore⦠Les Clochards exude a well-mannered feeling of tight-lipped sorrow, an autumnal shadow on the soul left by years of small but life-affecting mistakes⦠a fine balance of moods and a mature grasp of emotion that mean âSweet Tableauxâ is one of the most subtly crafted and lyrically gripping albums by a local band youâll hear this year.
Sue Foreman, Nightshift, May 2009