|
LOW STOCK LEVEL
|
ARTIST
TITLE
Groove Club Vol. 1: La Confiserie Magique
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
CATALOG #
LION 641CD
LION 641CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/3/2011
|
"Fabrice, 17 years old, is a minet, or to say it better, a mod from one of the posh neighborhoods, the 16th district in Paris and such 'golden ghettoes' as Auteuil, Neuilly and Passy. Fab' likes to have his 'ronron at the Drugstore', as Dutronc sang it (an untranslatable wordplay on ronron, 'cat food', and a minet - 'a kitten' - purring). Fabrice attends Henri IV prestigious high-school; his father, a businessman who made a fortune selling plastic flowers, and his mother, a former model from Jacques Fath, are never home, a cozy home indeed! With his Weston shoes, a slim-fitting suit by Renoma and his haircut modeled on those of Anglo-Saxons musicians appearing on French EPs, Fabrice dreams of Carnaby Street and the Sunset Strip. He is not alone: there's his sister Stephanie, 16, who wears a fringe, a mock Courreges dress, a pink Shetland pullover and white boots. Stephanie reads Salut Les Copains and Mademoiselle Age Tendre, which both fuel her passion for Francoise Hardy, Zouzou, Twiggy and the Beatles. The Groove Club is happy to present twenty-two records that we dug out as a tribute to Fabrice's kinky faves. We imagine those magic years 1966-71 (with two inclusions from 1976 & 77) to have been as you can hear it here -- truly decadent pop-psych, as beautiful as the cathedral of Evry, whether it's the arch-hippie Lolita taking us beyond the limits of pop music, singing songs which make one dream of Anicee Alvina riding her bicycle in a red dress, or whether it's sunny and stunning, or brooding and tinged with sadness. And we sense that, paradoxical as it may seem, although we have imagined a parallel cosmos to the Grande Heures of pop culture, we are not far from the truth. Popisme fantastique!"
|
|
|