Brigitte Fontaine Est... Folle

Brigitte Fontaine's first album, arranged by Jean Claude Vannier (who had also done arrangements for Serge Gainsbourg), is her most normal and accessible record. It's still not terribly normal by pop standards, its arty songs dressed up with period Continental orchestration and quirky melodies and vocal deliveries. These can both hark back to Edith Piaf-styled material, or look forward to slight avant-garde/experimentalism. At times it sounds like the kind of thing Francoise Hardy might have done had she continued to develop along adventurous lines and keep pace with progressive pop and rock trends in the late '60s. In fact, songs like "Une Fois Mais Pas Deux" sound rather close to Hardy's best late-'60s material, but Hardy would have never done anything as goofy as "L'Homme Objet," with its music-box backing, or as odd as "Eternelle," with its tribal male backup vocals and rhythms, and "Blanche Neige," with its overdubbed tropical bird effects. ~ Richie Unterberger

68年に発表されたブリジット・フォンテーヌによる、記念すべきサラヴァ第1作目『Brigitte Fontaine est...』と、名盤〈ラジオのように〉の次に発表された72年作『Brigitte Fontaine』が日本盤でリイシューされました。30年以上も前の録音なのに、いま聴いても全く新しい音楽に聞こえるところが恐ろしいです。ほとばしるアヴァンギャルドで斬新なアイデアの数々とその実験性が持つ魅力は、時が経つほど強まってる感じがします。
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