SECRETS REVEALED - LES RAISONS D'ETRE SUR FRANNCE ! Here what was hidden behind each artist's mind
CD1 "Bleu"
01 THE SHITTY LISTENER "More now girl" is souvenir of words said by a french girl
02 THE NORTH SEA "Le Dieu cerf" means "The Stag God" in english
03 DE OLIVEIRA / JARVIS / DE OLIVEIRA "Joanna" is cover of a Serge Gainsbourg song ("Couleur Café" album 1977)
04 AMOLVACY "The nobleman's fever" is taken from Rabelais' Pantagruel. "Noble" is a french word
05 MIKE TAMBURO "Headphone music for Bridgett Bardot" : Brigitte Bardot was certainly one of the most famous french bimbo-actress during the 60/70ies
06 TANAKH "Stereognosis (french remix)" is based on Serge Gainsbourg samples
07 TOM CARTER "Reynardine" is a old from french term , a "reynard" (renard) is a fox
08 BLACK FOREST BLACK SEA "My night with the French Resistance" , about an unauthorized excursion by night at Eurodisney Paris
09 6MAJIK9 "Mains tombantes" means "Falling Hands''
10 S. DYJA "Un hommage à Maldoror" : hommage to "The songs of Maldoror" (1869) by Isidore Lucien Ducasse a/k/a the Comte de Lautreamont
11 QUETZOLCOATL "I dive for secrets in the Gorges du Verdon" : the Verdon Gorge is a river canyon in Provence (south-eastern France)
12 BEN REYNOLDS "Surréalisme avec Robert Desnos, Marcel Duchamp & Louis Aragon" : surrealism is a french cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings
13 THE ROME CHELL AND THE REGGAEE "Mouchoir de ciel" : french artists , the title means "handkerchief of sky" (??)
14 CPU GROUP WITH RAHMANE "Donnez-moi juste un fétide Odontophorus (trop d'oiseaux dans mon écho mix)" : "Give me an stinking Tocro (too many birds in my echo mix). The tocro is the french name of a south-american bird
15 "V" "Boisansfeuilles" : name of a place in Lozere (Languedoc-Rousillon, France) ; "V" is french
16 LAMPPUKELLO "161104 french fries" , les "frites" (fries, chips) are pieces of potaotes. The name "French" was applied to them in (american) english at the beginning of the 19th century.
17 MILOU ET LES CHIENS FOUS "La maison près de la fontaine" is a cover of Nino Ferrer.
"Les chiens fous" mean the mad dogs and Milou is Tintin's dog
CD2 "Blanc"
01 VOLCANO THE BEAR "Bongeau" or "bonjeau" comes from old french language, and was used to named bundles of flax linked together
02 BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD "Etangs et petits aigles" means "Ponds and small eagles"
03 THE MIGHTY ACTS OF GOD "Revenez à la demoiselle qui est déléguée du Roi du Ciel" is a sentence included in the letter Joan of Arc gave to the King of United Kingdom
04 FABIO ORSI & GIANLUCCA BECUZZI "Sans fin" means "Without end"
05 TANAKH "Their door" is a song sung in french
06 CJA & LEE NOYES "Obsessed on Idefix" : Idefix (an "idée fixe" is a fixed idea, obsession on a theme) is the french name of Dogmatix, the dog in the french comic book "Asterix"
07 ELEPHANT MICAH "Marie's hair" : Marie is the french name for Mary
08 ALLIGATOR CRYSTAL MOTH "Vampires cristallins" means "crystallin vampires"
09 AJILVSGA "French Revolution" : famous period in French History (1789)
10 SILVESTER ANFANG "De Gouden Ridder" , a legend about the Golden Knight that helped flammish to beat french army
11 THE STUMPS "The Maginot line" : "La ligne Maginot" was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, machine gun posts and other defences which France constructed along its borders with Germany and with Italy, in the light of experience from WWI
12 GREGG KOWALSKY "Black Armagnac" : the armagnac is a distinctive kind of brandy, made of mainly the same grapes as cognac
13 FURSAXA "Transports 6", cover of the parisian french artist Ghedalia Tazartes
14 SEHT "Green Faerey" : Faerey (or faery, fairy...) is a metaphysical spirit or supernatural being. It is based on the fae of medieval western european (Old French) folklore and romance
15 VALERIO COSI "Emmanuelle Béart" is a beautiful french actress, daughter of Guy Beart, an old french singer
CD3 "Rouge"
01 ALTAR K "Ils dorment" means "they sleep"
02 HEAVY WINGED "Un regard primitif" means " a primitive glance" , can be used in a anthropology context
03 BJERGA / IVERSEN "Sons pirates des fréquences volées" means "bootleg sounds from stolen frequencies"
04 BIRDS OF DELAY "Wader" : recorded in France
05 THE FUTURIANS "Futuna" is a polynesian island territory in the south Pacific between Fiji and Samoa islands
06 GASHEART "Sans titre" means "untitled"
07 UTON "Paris in stars" is about Paris, "La ville des lumières" ("city of light")
08 FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE "L'eau qui dort" could be translated as "The stagnant water" (the sleeping water for a litteral translation)
09 ROBERT HORTON Vs EGGHATCHER "Funeral process for the potpourri terrorist" : potpourri comes from the french word "pot-pourri," which was the french name for a spanish stew with a wide variety of ingredients called "olla podrida". it's related there to the Egghatcher cdr , released on ruralfaune (rur002) – ask for more details -
10 FUCKEN PURITAN "Fish heads and frogs legs" – it's wrong, frenchies don't eat frogs
11 THE COSMIC MANDOLINERS "Unis vers l'univers vert" means "United towards the green universe – tricky assembly of words here in french -
12 ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS "Insideoutside the dream", cover of the 70ies french progressive band Pole
13 TAIGA REMAINS "Originary lack" : notion developped by the french philosoph Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
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01 THE SHITTY LISTENER "More now girl"
02 THE NORTH SEA "Le Dieu cerf"
03 DE OLIVEIRA / JARVIS / DE OLIVEIRA "Joanna"
04 AMOLVACY "The nobleman's fever"
05 MIKE TAMBURO "Headphone music for Bridgett Bardot"
06 TANAKH "Stereognosis (french remix)"
07 TOM CARTER "Reynardine"
08 BLACK FOREST BLACK SEA "My night with the French Resistance"
09 6MAJIK9 "Mains tombantes"
10 S. DYJA "Un hommage à Maldoror"
11 QUETZOLCOATL "I dive for secrets in the Gorges du Verdon"
12 BEN REYNOLDS "Surréalisme avec Robert Desnos, Marcel Duchamp & Louis Aragon"
13 THE ROME CHELL AND THE REGGAEE "Mouchoir de ciel"
14 CPU GROUP WITH RAHMANE "Donnez-moi juste un fétide Odontophorus (trop d'oiseaux dans mon écho mix)"
15 "V" "Boisansfeuilles"
16 LAMPPUKELLO "161104 french fries"
17 MILOU ET LES CHIENS FOUS "La maison près de la fontaine"
CD2 "Blanc"
01 VOLCANO THE BEAR "Bongeau"
02 BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD "Etangs et petits aigles"
03 THE MIGHTY ACTS OF GOD "Revenez à la demoiselle qui est déléguée du Roi du Ciel"
04 FABIO ORSI & GIANLUCCA BECUZZI "Sans fin"
05 TANAKH "Their door"
06 CJA & LEE NOYES "Obsessed on Idefix"
07 ELEPHANT MICAH "Marie's hair"
08 ALLIGATOR CRYSTAL MOTH "Vampires cristallins"
09 AJILVSGA "French Revolution"
10 SILVESTER ANFANG "De Gouden Ridder"
11 THE STUMPS "The Maginot line"
12 GREGG KOWALSKY "Black Armagnac"
13 FURSAXA "Transports 6"
14 SEHT "Green Faerey"
15 VALERIO COSI "Emmanuelle Béart"
CD3 "Rouge"
01 ALTAR K "Ils dorment"
02 HEAVY WINGED "Un regard primitif"
03 BJERGA / IVERSEN "Sons pirates des fréquences volées"
04 BIRDS OF DELAY "Wader"
05 THE FUTURIANS "Futuna"
06 GASHEART "Sans titre"
07 UTON "Paris in stars"
08 FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE "L'eau qui dort"
09 ROBERT HORTON Vs EGGHATCHER "Funeral process for the potpourri terrorist"
10 FUCKEN PURITAN "Fish heads and frogs legs"
11 THE COSMIC MANDOLINERS "Unis vers l'univers vert"
12 ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS "Insideoutside the dream"
13 TAIGA REMAINS "Originary lack"
Compiled by Ruralfaune and Labelledamesansmerci for your pleasure
2007
45 artists, over 230 minutes of music
Each track is exclusive to the compilation
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