nouvelles

Overall Rating: ( 2 reviews )

1. Posted: Jan 19 2007

   First of all, the watch was delivered 2 days after the order was made,and by the way the shipping was free. The watch was so classy it really looked a lot better than the picture.If you want a watch that stands out, this is it. My husband gets a lot of compliment every time he wears it and he just absolutely adore it.

2. Posted: Jan 4 2007

   Really beautifull, light weighted, very elegant. It's a bit smaller than you might think but I think it makes it more delicate.

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Overall Rating: ( 8 reviews )

1. Posted: Mar 20 2008

   Imagine a long summernight, when you're sitting outside having a relaxed cooldown after a long, hot day. This music is the perfect companion, just as the original songs were for a cold winternight in a northern town. Some songs are almost unrecognizable from their original recording, so even though you might have listened to these way to often in the 80s, they are still refreshing the way Nouvelle Vague has remastered them.

2. Posted: Jan 27 2008

   This album has some really cool songs on it. If you stop and listen to it, you'll be hard pressed not to like this album.

3. Posted: Oct 15 2007

   I have to admit I am new to Nouvelle Vague. I have heard of them in magazine but never got around to checking out their music. I finally did this weekend when I found Nouvelle Vague's self-titled album. When I looked at the track list on the back of the cd, I knew I had to hear it, especially since I love Joy Division and Depeche Mode. NOUVELLE VAGUE is an intersting collection of post-punk songs given a lounge make over. I thought the concept was interesting but I found my patience stretched to its limits because the kitschy novelty of remaking popular post-punk songs from the '80s got tiresome. Another aspect I didn't care much for about the music is that Nouvelle Vague took a bunch of distinctive songs and turned them into boring, repetive lounge songs. Every song on the cd lost its distinct sound to the annoying kitschy lounge sound. While I am not overly fond of the cd, there were a few tracks that I did enjoy like "Love Will Tear Us Apart", and "Just Can't Get Enough". I really wanted to like this cd but I just couldn't. Sorry but this concept of turning new wave songs into lounge music is a horrible idea.

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Overall Rating: ( 3 reviews )

1. Posted: Aug 18 2007

   Edición que incluye la versión original en un cd, y otro mas con remezclas del álbum original. Propuesta muy interesante y sentida, un ritmo cadente que atrapa irremediablemente, aunque creo que le falta el sentimiento jamaiquino que hace del reggae un ritmo irresistible. Muy decorosa propuesta, muy bien ejecutada que muestra el gran oficio del compositor.

2. ( 0 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 18 2007

   Edici??????n que incluye la versi??n original en un cd, y otro mas con remezclas del ??lbum original. Propuesta muy interesante y sentida, un ritmo cadente que atrapa irremediablemente, aunque creo que le falta el sentimiento jamaiquino que hace del reggae un ritmo irresistible. Muy decorosa propuesta, muy bien ejecutada que muestra el gran oficio del compositor.

3. ( 0 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 18 2007

   Edici??n que incluye la versi??n original en un cd, y otro mas con remezclas del ??lbum original. Propuesta muy interesante y sentida, un ritmo cadente que atrapa irremediablemente, aunque creo que le falta el sentimiento jamaiquino que hace del reggae un ritmo irresistible. Muy decorosa propuesta, muy bien ejecutada que muestra el gran oficio del compositor.

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Overall Rating: ( 2 reviews )

1. ( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 3 2007

   I don't understand more than a few words of French, but I am a bit of a musician, and I just love the rhythms and harmonies in the music of Hart Rouge. We seem to have learned so little in school as to the history and settlement of our peaceful neighbor to the north, and this music provides an entre. I will make it a point to buy any cd that Hart Rouge issues. I don't like this one as much as "Histoire de Familie," but that's really like saying that I don't like my favorite apple pie as much without its being served ala mode!

2. ( 10 of 10 found this review helpful ) Posted: Sep 18 1998

   Hart Rouge's latest album, in some ways, departs from the style they set on their previous recording, "Beaupre's Home." It has a generally slower tempo. The arrangements are more complex, with more emphasis on the instrumentals and less on the lush vocals. It has a jazzier feel to it. None of these departures is a negative, "Nouvelle France" is a thoroughly enjoyable CD, well worth the price of admission. It retains many ofthe elements that made "Beaupre's Home" unique and interesting -- great lyrics sung both in English and French (and sometimes both in the same song or phrase), strong harmonies and a very intriguing, mostly acoustic sound.

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Overall Rating: ( 6 reviews )

1. ( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Mar 23 2006

   Tasty sampler of pop styles that sound to me more like reggae and other current world musics than like their French chanson precursors. Several are clearer lineal descendants of Byrne than of Brel. Great collection-only a couple fall short. Standouts: tr 4-Naïve deriche (Arabist take on what could be classic Talking Heads); tr 7-René Bouteille (gentler ska take on Les Negresses Vertes, like a rollicking folk song sung in a pub); tr 9-fèm ren (Celto-Arabic, with layered rhythms and a vocal that gets under your skin); tr 11-Brûlé la méche (male rap against female chorus with fiddle and percussion is goosebumping)

2. ( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Mar 23 2006

   Tasty sampler of pop styles that sound to me more like reggae and other current world musics than like their French chanson precursors. Several are clearer lineal descendants of Byrne than of Brel. Great collection-only a couple fall short. Standouts: tr 4-Na??ve deriche (Arabist take on what could be classic Talking Heads); tr 7-Ren?? Bouteille (gentler ska take on Les Negresses Vertes, like a rollicking folk song sung in a pub); tr 9-f??m ren (Celto-Arabic, with layered rhythms and a vocal that gets under your skin); tr 11-Br??l?? la m??che (male rap against female chorus with fiddle and percussion is goosebumping)

3. ( 3 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: Nov 15 2003

   This is a great collection offrench music. It focuses on mostly the music of north and west sfrican diasporas in france with a few gypsy tunes. As such the same musiccould have easily been masrketed as a continuation in Luaka Bops " Adventures in Afropea" series. The subtilte of french nouvelle generation is misleading because it completely ignores a lot of the very interesting musical movements in French A,bient and Techno music. prominent bands such as Air , Daft Punk are missing as are french hip hop icons such as MC Solaar.On the Whole this is a unique and excellent compilation of Afro French tunes..

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Overall Rating: ( 2 reviews )

1. ( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Dec 31 2007

   Patrick Doyle has long been one of my top three soundtrack composers.His music is sweepingly lush and romantic,as in all of his collaborations with Kenneth Branagh in earlier films.Doyle's score for the film BATTLE FOR THE BRAVE is no less winning and outstandingly robust as in the CD soundtrack NOUVELLE FRANCE.The score with the song "La Nouvelle France" as sung by Celine Dion recalls the state of the Quebecois as they were abandoned by France and no less more loved by the English.The soundtrack is an extreme pleasure to the ear.The speakers are filled to capacity with orchestral romance and is quality Patrick Doyle that was the highlight of a totally dreadful film.

2. ( 0 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 6 2007

   I am very pleased with the quality of the music, which I was not expecting to be so good.

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Overall Rating: ( 6 reviews )

1. Posted: Feb 29 2008

   Bye Bye American pie. The music in America is dead. I blame George Bush for that. French music is the bomb.

2. ( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 15 2007

   I love this mix; it offers true variety. It would be impossible to lump all of these tracks into any one defining genre. The only thing that seems to link them is the fact that they're all singing in the same language! "Rodeo" and "Tabatha" are my two favorite tracks, each sounding nothing like anything I've heard before. It's refreshing to find a compilation that doesn't require use of the "skip" button.

3. Posted: Nov 5 2006

   I liked about 1/2 of the tracks on this album. I bought it because it had Francois Breut and, I hoped, similar singers on it. Unfortunately I don't speak French so I wasn't able to appreciate her 'Boite De Nuit' or any of the other serious, introspective songs, but many of the rest are charming, cute even, in a way that probably only works for the French. Also, just musically fresh, and unabashedly pretty. There are a few spots of musical vapidity, but overall quite pleasing and a couple of the tunes stayed with me over a few days.

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