We'd like to welcome
La Loutre (aka Anne) from the French outfit
Kawaii as our featured guest resident blogger.
She'll be bringing a fresh new flavor to our site, particularly music from Europe, and at times from her own native country, France. So we're really excited to have her on board and we'll feature an entry by her once a week, and another interesting spin to this featured entry will be--it'll be bilingual. There might be a very slight disparity and variation between the French to English translation, but we hope to make the adjustments in the coming weeks.
Hopefully, those who know a little French, can brush up in your lingusitic skills.
Ces deux demoiselles sont certainement le duo féminin le plus singulier de
la production musicale française actuelle :
Manfield TYA tire son nom de
June Mansfield, amie d’Anaïs Nin et femme d’
Henri Miller, écrivain américain
dont les romans jugés trop pornographiques ont été censurés. Le décor est
planté. Du haut de sa voix écorchée, Julia se fait le témoin du spleen et de
la mélancolie d’histoires d’amour déçues. Toujours sur le fil, Julia et
Carla nourrissent une ambiance intimiste et ténébreuse de leurs ballades
folk-rock. Au gré de leurs envies, la guitare électrique se frotte aux
cordes baroques d’un violon ou aux mélodies douces et romantiques d’un
harmonium indien ou d’un piano. On pense à
Cat Power,
Shannon Wright ou aux sœur Cassidy de
CocoRosie. Leur point commun ? Cette sensibilité à fleur de peau qui a la classe de ne jamais tomber dans la sensiblerie fleur bleue. Il suffit d’écouter «
En secret » (reprise de Dominique A), extraits de leur tout dernier EP, pour s’en convaincre.
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These two ladies must be the most singular female duo of French present
music production :
Mansfield TYA takes their name from
June Mansfield, Anaïs Nin’s friend and the wife of
Henri Miller, that American writer whose books considered too pornographic had been censored in the last century. The scene is set. With her flayed alive voice, Julia describes disappointed love stories’ with spleen and melancholy. In French or in English, Julia and Carla
build the intimist and dark ambiances of their folk-rock ballades. According
to their moods, the electric guitar flirts with the baroque strings of the
violin, piano or indian harmonium romantic and soft melodies. It can make
you think to
Cat Power,
Shannon Wright or Cassidy sisters from
CocoRosie.
official site:
Mansfield TYAMy Space: Mansfield YAmp3: Mansfield TYA- "En Secret"(YouSend: for a limited time only)
