Listening to this on Spotify now. It started off a bit tame but we've hit "Topaze" now and I'm enjoying it lots.
― seandalai, Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
her two earlier albums with Phil Fromont are worth seeking out as well. the first one, La Maumariee, is quasi-medieval serf dance music all the way through, with the same mix of spinet, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, etc. but more traditional and less out-there than Maison Rose, and with less emphasis on vocals. I haven't listened to the second one (Chateau Dans Les Nuages) more than a couple times, but it basically splits the difference between the first one and Maison Rose.
― broa super (unregistered), Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Veronique Chalot recorded a few albums in a similar vein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HC6KUEy7Jc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9phjz18XwHc
― broa super (unregistered), Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I was crazy about this album when it got reissued a couple years ago. Sort of related it with springtime, might be the right time to start listening again.
― Moka, Friday, 9 April 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost wow, broa super, *must buy* all of Véronique Chalot's music NOW. Gorgeous. Thanks so much.
― Turangalila, Friday, 9 April 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
np, Turangalila - glad you liked the clips :)
I've found frustratingly little info about her (Véronique Chalot) online. there's a discography and brief bio here, plus a blog post and forum discussion that offer a little more info. in short, she's a French expatriate who recorded three albums in Italy during the second half of the '70s. her first album is described as "10 traditional Provençal and Breton ballads from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries." the clips I put up are from her second album, which is rather more droney and ethereal in spots. it looks like none of her material has seen a proper re-release, & all I can find for sale is a used copy of her 3rd album for a whopping $200. her stuff's easy to find in mp3 form, though.
― broa super (unregistered), Friday, 9 April 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Double wow @ Véronique Chalot, reminds me a lot of Shirley Collins. I've gone through her entire Youtubeography in the past hour, it's great music for working to.
― seandalai, Friday, 9 April 2010 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Chant de la Mer is just so beautiful. I love the chord changes. But I need to stfu as this is not a Veronique thread. Sorry Milton.
― Turangalila, Friday, 9 April 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
love 'maison rose', really digging the véronique chalot.
― aztec gamera (zappi), Friday, 9 April 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Silly me only just noticed this thread got started after all--thanks Milton! Will definitely check out every name mentioned so far. And Milton, I agree with "God this album" and your take on it. This is one of those albums you can put on for people and halfway through they'll inevitably suddenly say "wait, is this still that same album?"
― elephant rob, Monday, 12 April 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
broa super, the Chalot stuff is lovely, thanks! Have you looked for more info about her lately? Looks like she's still around with a myspace and she's on facebook.
That Perhacs thread is loaded with good stuff too. Though I got burned buying a lot of "acid" folk a few years ago that was only acid in the sense of being released in the late 60s.
― elephant rob, Monday, 12 April 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Another wow for Véronique Chalot ! Never heard of her before, and it's stunning.
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
The Chalot is great, and definitely a connection, even though the albums I downloaded are much more straight up classical folk. I'll certainly spend more time with them once I climb out from under 'Maison Rose', though at this rate I don't know when that will be, it's been a 2-3 times a day listen for me since I found it
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm so happy to see this thread. Maison Rose is such a lovely album. I always include when making a folk mix for friends. Thanks for introducing me to Véronique Chalot. I get the impression she was a part of a scene of folkies from Italy? Does that mean there are other French/Italian folk artist in this vein?
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm, never even heard of Emanuelle Parrenin, but it sounds great! Thanks! Some of you guys might like this upcoming Elisa Randazzo record coming out on Drag City in May. Bridget St. John guests, of all things.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I get the impression she was a part of a scene of folkies from Italy? Does that mean there are other French/Italian folk artist in this vein?
If there was a folk scene in Italy, then I'd like to know more about it too. I just know that she played a lot of folk festivals in France before her move to Italy, and she recorded her first three albums with Italian musicians. I wish I could put this kind of music in context a little better. there must be a compilation out there of that covers the late '60s / early '70s French folk boom. actually, some of the various artist comps here might fit the bill.
I love the story of how Emmanuelle Parrenin & company opened for The Clash in France in 1977, raising a chorus of boos and va te faire foutres from the predictably irksome punks in the audience.
― unregistered, Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
What frustrates me about the Chalot is that the rips I have found have been shitty and there's really no other way around it apart from spending hundreds of euros in her LPs. :(
― Turangalila, Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i.e., I want to share it with everyone but I also don't want their ears to hurt
― Turangalila, Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Parrenin plays on this, but I haven't listened to it yet.http://ezhevika.blogspot.com/2006/08/pierre-bensusan-pres-de-paris-1974.html
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUWUR-i5XRw
Emmanuelle Parrenin avec Cristian Sotomayor (batterie) et Vincent Mougel kids are dead (Guitare / Synthés) en concert à La Loge le 9 janvier 2011.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
nice hurdy gurdy solo great song! if there's an album coming, it's going to be a good one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxWRBdJ2zjQ
Emmanuelle Parrenin en concert le 15 avril 2011 au Lieu Unique, Nantes, avec Vincent Segal, Flóp, Etienne Jaumet, Cristian Sotomayor, Vincent Mougel et Matthieu Fromont / Bo Weavil.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
!!!
Titres extraits du nouvel album MAISON CUBE paru le 31 mars 2011.
http://emmanuelleparrenin.bandcamp.com/album/maison-cube
09 Jul 2011 FR Marseille Festival Mimi (guest Flóp)25 Aug 2011 FR Rochefort Rochefort en accords (solo)26 Aug 2011 FR Rochefort Rochefort en accords (solo)27 Aug 2011 FR Rochefort Rochefort en accords (solo)
Booking: pas✧✧✧@julietip✧✧✧.c✧✧
julietippex.com/blog/roster/emmanuelle-parrenin/
http://thequietus.com/articles/05891-rockfort-emmanuelle-parrenin-interview
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Last year she also played on Etienne "Zombie Zombie" Jaumet's album "Night music" - an appropriate collaboration.By the way it seems like Get Back is going to re-release the first two lp's of Veronique Chalot next months (vinyl only, apparently, grrr).
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
how is her new album? the title track, at least, is mesmerizing. it seems like the perfect thing capture the hearts of people who liked "Topaze" but I wouldn't even mind if some of the other material was less out-there in the vein of much of the rest of Maison Rose.
her producer and romantic partner Bruno Menny was doing some old school Tangerine Dream-y synth stuff in the early '70s before he worked on Maison Rose. I haven't heard his album all the way through yet but it seems interesting.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Saturday, 28 May 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Menny also worked with Malicorne around the same time.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Saturday, 28 May 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
favorite overtly electronic Menny / Malicorne moment = that vocal choral cut-up loop on La Blanche Biche
I listened to it when I got it last month a little distant from it -- but it's good that it is not even trying for the same sense of mysticism or mystery, the production is very modern and upfront. The second track is a blues number that kicks off a very different, less pastoral vibe from the outset. Three weeks later I listened again and I've been playing it quite a few times since then. Once I got over expectations of this being a sequel, her voice sounds timeless, the songwriting is beautiful, and she still completely flips out on hurdy gurdy on more than a few tracks
― Milton Parker, Monday, 30 May 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Got this lp last week. Maison Rose. The Lion version of the cd is very nice sound. Odd details catch your attention, hurdy gurdy lines appearing as though out of the mist.
bet it's a cliche to compare it to Alain Stivell meets Linda Perhacs.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
I think it was this thread that I found on google and lead me to this site in the first place too. Don't know why it's taken me til now to buy the disc.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
Topaze, live 23-04-2011, Live in Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYSLxrFlVJk
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
is anyone else familiar with Valentin Clastrier? his "Migration" suite (spaced-out, longform hurdy gurdy piece) reminds me a bit of Emmanuelle Parrenin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLHk5HqShWI
(and it's literally the only thing I've heard by him, so I'd welcome any recommendations)
― when skrillex just stood there (unregistered), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 03:59 (ten years ago) link
("spaced-out" probably not the best description for something so vigorous, but ykwim)
― when skrillex just stood there (unregistered), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
Valentin Clastrier's self-titled album from last year is highly recommended for fans of avant-hurdy-gurdy music. his pieces are more like Indian ragas than trad folk songs, and his use of an effects pedal on a few tracks (the opener and closer + "Vents Solaires") is unique and unnerving. his hurdy gurdy is a custom-built, 27-stringed, electric-acoustic monstrosity, as he demonstrates here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G934ujHV-E
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Sunday, 23 March 2014 05:22 (ten years ago) link
https://emmanuelleparrenin.bandcamp.com/album/p-r-landra
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 15 April 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
Nice stuff. She also has a RSD 12" with Etienne Jaumet coming out on a French record store's label:
https://www.discogs.com/Emmanuelle-Parrenin-Eat-Gas-Etienne-Jaumet-Volturnus-Balagu%C3%A8re/release/10052245
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 15 April 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
The album she put out last March is quite something: https://johnkoolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/targala-la-maison-qui-nen-est-pas-une. Jazzier/global and less medieval than Maison rose (I haven't heard anything else by her), but definitely of a piece with it
― rob, Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link