Breathless (again)

I caught a bit of Jazz at the Movies on Radio 2 last night.

Jean-Luc Godard fans should listen just for the clips of Jazz composer Martial Solal talking about his soundtrack for À Bout De Souffle: working with Godard, his choice of character themes (strings for Seberg, brass for Belmondo), and the end result - as young Jazz-chap host Jamie Cullum notes the film action is almost cut to the "crazy, jagged be-bop" music.

Jazz at the Movies is on the iPlayer until 21.59 on Monday 6th May >> LISTEN HERE

Ce Soir c'est L'Amour Electronique

Yep, time marches on and another L'Amour Electronique has snuck up on us...

These are the informations you need to know

Saturday 27th August
9pm-3am
The West Hill pub, 67 Buckingham Place, Brighton, BN1 3PQ
FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT

We play French garage, 80s synth pop, 60s ye-ye, la musique psychedelique, swinging mademoiselles, robot rock, electronic pioneers, arpeggio disko and more

see the posts below for mixtapes and previous setlists

love and electronics
xxx

Here is some accompanying eye candy I found at http://frenchnewwave.tumblr.com

Breathless

Finally got to see the 50th Anniversary re-print of Godard's À Bout De Souffle (or Breathless if you can't pronounce the French) last Friday. I've seen it countless times on DVD, but seeing it on the big screen it had so much more impact. It was, if you pardon the pun, close to breathtaking.

I urge you to go and see it if you can.

Here's a little mp3 tribute to the scene above: A song I first discovered on (the sadly latent) Spiked Candy back in July 2007 . Hopefully she won't mind me re-posting it now...

Jany. L - Herald Tribune

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