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Jueves, 18 de Diciembre de 2008 09:09

Marc Collin Foto: last.fmEl nuevo disco de Nouvelle Vague contiene duetos con los cantantes que originalmente interpretan algunas de las canciones que seleccionaron para este álbum, entre los que se encuentran Martin Gore, Terry Hall de los Specials, Ian McCulloch de Echo and the Bunnymen, así como Chris Bailey de The Saints.

"Nos dará una especie de credibilidad y será divertido, porque obviamente mucha gente que ha sido fan de The Specials, de Depeche Mode. Para ellos será difícil decir que estamos haciendo un mal trabajo porque estamos colaborando con los vocalistas originales", dijo el guitarrista inglés Marc Collin.

En una nota para el sitio Undercover.com.au, Collin declaró: “Trabajamos con Martin L. Gore de Depeche Mode en Master and Servant.”

Anteriormente, Nouvelle Vague realizó una reinterpretacion de la canción "In a Manner of Speaking", la cual a su vez Martin Gore ya había incluido en su primer disco solista de covers Counterfeit e.p., canción original de Tuxedomoon.

Nouvelle Vague
In a Manner Of Speaking
Live in Mexico City @ Carranza 2006

Fuentes: Home
Notas Originales: The Age y Undercover

Covers will tear us apart

French producer Marc Collin and his band Nouvelle Vague have won fans and foes aplenty with their fresh takes on New Wave classics. Gabriella Coslovich reports.

IT MAY be a good thing that Marc Collin doesn't read the comments on YouTube in response to his audacious covers of the of 1980s New Wave classics. "They've turned one of the most haunting anthems of all time, (Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart), into porno music," is one of the kinder observations.

For the past four years, Collin, producer and founder of French band Nouvelle Vague, has reinterpreted the songs that encapsulated a generation, setting them (sacrilegiously, according to some) to the smooth rhythms of bossa nova or to a reggae or calypso beat, or transforming them into heart-wrenching, ambient soundscapes, as he has done so sublimely with Visage's 1981 hit, Fade to Grey. Nothing is too sacred for Collin to rearrange: The Dead Kennedy's Too Drunk To F---, the Clash's Guns of Brixton and Public Image Limited's (This is not a) love song have all had the Nouvelle Vague treatment.

Depending on your point of view, he either liberates these post-punk songs from their gilded cage of memories, breathing new life into bygone musical marvels, or he massacres them, and in so doing tampers with our recollections of the era.

Not everyone is open to the Nouvelle Vague musical ride, as those online postings (for what they're worth) clearly indicate. The YouTube remarks prompted by Collin's bossa nova version of New Order's Blue Monday, for instance, are especially virulent.

"NEW f-----g ORDER did it best," replied adictsfan, while cybernaut667 coolly declared that "actually Johnny Cash OWNED the song".

Collin, an unlined, easy-going 40-year-old with one of those irresistibly guttural Gallic accents, is unperturbed. Nouvelle Vague's international touring schedule vouches for the band's popularity: they perform about 100 gigs a year to an audience that has broadened from an older generation of fans who know they are listening to covers, to excitable girls in their 20s who believe the songs are original.

"What is strange is that, for example, in jazz or classical music it's really a tradition to do covers, you know, it's not a kind of sacred thing, so I don't know why it is sacred to do something on Joy Division or New Order," Collin says.

Nouvelle Vague are in Melbourne for the third time and will be performing acoustic versions of their covers at the Prince Bandroom tonight, including previews of songs from their third (as-yet-unnamed) album, due for release in May.

The ever-changing Nouvelle Vague line-up will feature a new addition, Melbourne-born singer Nadeah Miranda, an Amazonian blonde, as well as the elegant Melanie Pain, who has toured with the band since their first show in Paris in May 2004, and whose voice has been likened to a mix of Claudine Longet and Francois Hardy.

"The first time we played in London for the first album, we were a bit scared, because it was only guys, old punks, like 40 years old, with T-shirts of the bands and piercings everywhere and big pints of beer," says Pain, who is a youthful 30.

"And they were waiting for us and I remember with the other singer, back stage, saying, 'Oh my God, they're going to throw their beer at us'. But actually they were laughing at the beginning and then they really enjoyed it and they sing (sic) with us; I think they had lots of fun."

Nouvelle Vague's eponymous debut 2004 album was created in 15 days as a bit of fun, says Collin, who chose the song list with co-producer Olivier Libaux in "half an hour". Bossa nova was the overriding theme of that album, but on the second, Bande A Part, Collin and Libaux began to experiment with other musical genres, wanting to prove that they were not simply a formulaic team. For Collin, Bande A Part is the better album.

Nouvelle Vague's third and probably last album will venture — wait for it — into the country and western genre.

"It's like (with the) bossa nova, it's not really bossa nova, because I did it with a French guitar player and I'm not at all a percussion player, so it was French bossa nova in a way," Collin says by way of explanation and defence of his next foray. And for this one it's not real country and western songs, it is our way to reinterpret these songs."

The new album will also feature duets with the original singers of the some of the featured songs, including Depeche Mode's Martin Gore, Terry Hall from the Specials, Ian McCulloch from Echo and the Bunnymen, and Chris Bailey from the Saints.

"It will bring a kind of credibility and it will be funny because obviously a lot of people who were fans of the Specials, of Depeche Mode, it will be hard for them to say that we are doing bad work because we are working with the original singers," Collin says.

"It is quite a funny and lovely story. We were fans of all these bands and now they are working with us. It's a beautiful story."

Nouvelle Vague are at the Prince Bandroom tonight. Doors open at 8.30pm; support act Inga Liljestrom from 9pm.