Taking their moniker from the 60s new wave of cult French cinema, Nouvelle Vague are a French musical collective put together by arrangers Marc Collins and Olivier Libaux. On their first album, ?Nouvelle Vague? the group resurrected lost classics from the 80s ?New Wave? music era, and reinterpret them in a saucy bossa nova style. The songs were stripped back to acoustic arrangements with lithe shaker rhythms achieved by gathering a parade of chanteuses from all over the world (six French, one Brazilian and one New Yorker) to sex up everyone from XTC and Modern English to The Clash and The Undertones.
Nouvelle Vague returns June 26th with their second album 'Bande a` Part'. They are still resurrecting 80?s new wave and punk songs but this time it?s not so much in a Bossa Nova style but more as dreadlocked reggae artist strumming his guitar in Kingston, Jamaica. Songs on ?Bande A Part? include covers of ?The Killing moon? by Echo and the Bunneymen, ?Dancing by myself? by Billie Idol and ?Heart of glass? by Blondie. These songs, along with eleven other mesmerizing reinterpretations, now grace Bande a` Part, the next chapter in Novelle Vague's beguiling, retro-futurist odyssey.
Limited Edition includes four bonus tracks: 'Sweet And Tender Hooligan', 'Shack Up', 'Israel' and 'Eisbaer'. Sophomore album, following 2004's self-titled release, fromFrench duo who cover 80s new wave and new romantic songs ina loungecore/tropicalia style. Self-consciously arty and ironic - their name references the 60s French "new wave" of cinema and the album is named for the cult film ('Band Of Outsiders') by Jean-Luc Godard - their gimmick has nonetheless made them one of the Peacefrog label's biggest sellers. Features versions of tracks by Blancmange ('Waves'), The Cramps ('Human Fly'), Bauhaus ('Bela Lugosi's Dead'), Blondie ('Heart Of Glass'), Heaven 17 ('Let Me Go'), Echo & The Bunnymen ('The Killing Moon'), Buzzcocks ('Ever Fallen In Love'), Yazoo ('Don't Go') and more. Peacefrog. 2006.
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