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Sébastien Tellier ,
(born 1975 in Paris) is a French singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently signed to Record Makers, a French independent record label. He sings in English, French and Italian. ….More
L’incroyable Vérité ,
Tellier’s first album, L’incroyable Vérité (The Incredible Truth), was released in 2001. Tellier went on tour with Air in support of the album and was joined on stage by world-renowned theremin player Pamelia Kurstin. L’incroyable Vérité is a pop album featuring styles from lo-fi electronica to bizarre cabaret tunes. Its sleeve featured Tellier in full evening dress on the front, while the back of jacket had a shot of him cavorting in a playboy’s pool. He instructed listeners only to listen to the album by candle light. The track, “Fantino”, was chosen by Sofia Coppola for the soundtrack to her 2003 film Lost in Translation. ….More
Sebastien Tellier – L’incroyable Verite
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Politics ,
Tellier followed L’incroyable Vérité with his second studio album Politics (2005), which, like his third album Sexuality (2008), took a single term as both its title and theme. The album dealt with ways of power and governance. The most prominent song on Politics was “La Ritournelle”, a string-led tune, which featured Nigerian drummer, Tony Allen, drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti’s band Africa 70 from 1968 to 1979. ….More
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Sexuality ,
His third studio album Sexuality was produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk. Tellier’s label Record Makers collaborated with retailer American Apparel for an exclusive three month pre-release of the album. Limited edition versions of the Sexuality CD, LP and “Divine” 7″ and 12″ single was sold in all North American American Apparel stores and on the companies website beginning 22 July 2008.
On 7 March 2008, it was announced by Bruno Berberes, head of EBU delegation in France, that Tellier would represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. It was held in Belgrade on 24 May 2008, with Tellier’s song “Divine”. This was the first time in the history of the contest that the nominated French entry was to be performed largely in English, which caused controversy, leading to Tellier pledging to increase the amount of French in the song prior to the competition itself. In total, the entry received 47 points. ….More
Sebastien Tellier – Sexuality – Part1
Sebastien Tellier – Sexuality – Part2
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The Canadian Tenors ,
Track Listing :
- “01. Adagio”
- “02. Always There”
- “03. Luna”
- “04. Because We Believe”
- “05. I Only Know How To Love”
- “06. Home I’ll Be”
- “07. Belle”
- “08. Sempre Vicino”
- “09. One More Day”
- “10. La Califfa”
- “11. Watching Over Me”
- “12. Remember Me”
The Canadian Tenors – The Canadian Tenors
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Michael Gordon Oldfield ,
(born 15 May 1953 in Reading, Berkshire) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age and more recently dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature. He is best known for his hit 1973 album Tubular Bells, which broke new ground as an instrumental concept album and launched Virgin Records, and for his 1983 hit single “Moonlight Shadow”. He is also well known for his hit rendition of the Christmas piece, “In Dulci Jubilo”. ….More
Mike Oldfield – Music Of The Spheres
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Gotan Project ,
is a musical group based in Paris, consisting of musicians Philippe Cohen Solal (French), Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine), and Christoph H. Müller (Swiss, former member of Touch El Arab).
They formed in 1999. Their first release was Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foraneo in 2000, followed by the album La Revancha del Tango in 2001. Their music is clearly tango, but also uses electronic elements such as samples, beats, and breaks. ….More
Gotan Project – Gotan Project Live
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Electric Light Orchestra ,
commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne’s desire to create modern pop songs with heavily classical overtones, but falling under a light rock category. However, the band’s direction for most of their existence was set by Lynne who, after the band’s debut record, wrote and arranged all of the group’s original compositions and produced every album.
It was in the United States that the band were first successful, billed as ‘The English guys with the big fiddles’. They soon gained a cult following despite lukewarm reviews back in their native United Kingdom. They were managed by agent Don Arden, father of Sharon Osbourne.
By the mid-1970s, they had become one of the biggest selling bands in music. From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated twenty-six U.K. Top 40 hit singles and twenty U.S. Top 40 hit singles. The group also scored twenty Top 20 U.K. hit singles, as well as fifteen Top 20 appearances in the U.S. Billboard charts. The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Top 40 hits of any band in U.S. chart history without ever having a #1 single. ….More
Electric Light Orchestra – Light Years
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Geordie ,
were a glam rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne, active in the 1970s.
The Original and first line-up included; Vic Malcolm (born Albert Victor Malcolm, 3 December 1946, in Newcastle upon Tyne) (lead guitar, vocals), Tom Hill (bass guitar), Brian Gibson (drums) and Brian Johnson (lead vocals), who later went on to join the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC.
Geordie released their debut album, Hope You Like It, in 1973 on EMI’s Regal Zonophone record label and Red Bus Records. Geordie had several top ten hits and had numerous appearances on TV including Top of the Pops. Geordie split up in 1978. ….More
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Christmas Grass ,
Track Listing :
- “1. Christmas Time’s a Comin’”
- “2. What Child Is This”
- “3. Silver Bells”
- “4. Silent Night”
- “5. Winter Wonderland”
- “6. O Christmas Tree”
- “7. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”
- “8. Away in a Manger”
- “9. Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”
- “10. Carol of the Bells”
- “11. Sleigh Ride”
- “12. Deck the Halls”
- “13. Joy to the World”
- “14. Jingle Bells”
- “15. O Holy Night”
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Men at Work ,
were an Australian reggae-influenced rock band which achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to reach the Number 1 position in album and singles charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom with Business as Usual and “Down Under” respectively. The group won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best New Artist and sold over 30 million albums worldwide. The band’s sound is distinguished by its use of woodwind and brass instruments. ….More
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La Bionda ,
Italian brothers Angelo & Carmelo La Bionda had already had Southern European hits with their two D.D. Sound albums in 1977, recorded in Munich. In 1978, they decided to give themselves full credit and record an album as La Bionda. Basically recorded with the same crew of musicians and backing singers, the first La Bionda single “One For You, One For Me” was released in May 1978 to become a summer smash hit of the year. With its simple but irresistible nursery rhyme chorus, the song topped the Italian charts and also became a #2 hit in Germany (although only a minor #54 hit in the UK). The 5-track album was a German #10 LP when licensed to Ariola and also yielded a club hit with the 10-minutes “Sandstorm”.
The brothers spent the rest of 1978 recording the third D. D. Sound album Café while simultaneously recording the second La Bionda album Bandido, released in December, accompanied by the lead single “Baby Make Love” which couldn’t repeat the success of “One For You, One For Me”, it peaked at the German #18 while becoming a Swiss #7 hit. Just like the first album, Bandido was an equally strong Munich-disco production with the brothers’ catchy melodies and lyricist Richard W. Palmer James’ clever lyrics – in May, the title track was released as the second single, a special remix was done for the 12″ release.
For their third album release High Energy, La Bionda were aware of the change in the disco scene and followed in the footsteps of Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff”, adding a more rock-oriented sound to their record, but neither “Disco Roller (C’mon And Rock’n Roll)” nor “I Got Your Number” did well outside Italy.
The end of 1980 saw the brothers release the quirky synth-pop tune “I Wanna Be Your Lover”, the title track off their fourth La Bionda album which was much more plain pop tunes rather than dance tracks, and the public interest was waning. They recorded a song for an Italian TV programme, 1982’s “Boxes”, but then retired from the limelight to produce other artists. In 1983, they scored another big summer hit with Righeira’s “Vamos A La Playa”. Carmelo La Bionda released the solo single “I Love You”, 1985.
The late 90s saw Toblerone chocolate revive “One For You, One For Me” for one of their commercials, and various compilation CDs have also been released. The brothers released the CD-single “Eeah Da Da” in 1997.
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Claudja Barry ,
born 1952 in Jamaica, raised in Toronto, Canada and later based in Germany, is a Pop, Hi-NRG and House music singer and actress who has performed in the European versions of the stage musicals Hair and Catch My Soul.
Before she embarked on a solo career, Claudja Barry was part of the studio group Boney M from 1975 to 1976. She has had two Billboard Hot 100 entries. The first being “Dancin’ Fever” which peaked at #72, off The Girl Most Likely album. The other song being Boogie Woogie Dancin’ Shoes (R&B #37, Pop #56 in 1979) from the album I Wanna Be Loved By You, released in 1978. Both became major mainstream pop hits in Canada and Europe. In 1976 the soulful ballad “Love for the Sake of Love” got airplay, and in 1979, another single, Boogie Tonight was released off the “I Wanna…” album, received Canadian airplay and was also remixed into a 12″ Disco Single. ….More
Claudja Barry – I Wanna Be Loved By You
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