Fictions [Import]

Jane Birkin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI France
• ASIN: B000EJ9LES
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,668 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

International pressing. Jane Birkin is of course best known in the UK for her 1969 duet with Serge Gainsbourg, Je t'aime (Moi Non Plus), where she panted her way to the top of the charts, however she has appeared in over 50 films, been a star of numerous theatre productions and recorded more than a dozen albums. Jane has expertly delved into her own past and handpicked a bouquet of different emotions for this album. A wonderful team of songwriters (Neil Hannon of Divine Comedy, Magic Numbers, Beth Gibbons, Rufus Wainwright, Arthur H, Dominique A, Cali and others) have slipped original compositions in between a few timeless pieces (including covers of songs by Tom Waits and Neil Young) under the direction of Renaud Letang and Gonzales, whose orchestrations are unmistakable. Singing most often in English, her innocent voice nestles as never before within a series of deceptively fragile arrangements, accentuated by Johnny Marr (the former Smiths front-man, who only gets his guitar out for a select few, like Bryan Ferry and Pet Shop Boys). Jane Birkin gives a lot in Fictions - a lot of herself, of course, and certainly more than enough to continue to please her audience on both sides of the Channel. EMI. 2006.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fictions without the jet lag, July 25, 2006

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Charles Baudelaire de New York "Charles" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fictions (Audio CD)

I was in Toronto on business a few months back and was excited to be able to have this playing in my cd player. The song "Home" has some of the most thought provoking lyrics on what home means to anyone. The song caught me at a moment in time when I was "packing and unpacking" and thinking over what was "in my suitcase". Ok...she may not be writing these great lyrics but can you hold this against her? How about Joe Cocker for that matter? This woman brings a uniquely Brittanic spirit to the glass of rum on the rocks in which we live on this planet Earth with our troubles, blues, toils, hopes and disappointments. Stephen Stills may have said "the blues ain't funny" but who has ever been hanged for having a sense of humour over watching the ashtray get dumped into the kitty litter box?

Buy this cd if you want beautifully crafted melodies kissed against the caresses of a woman enamoured with Baudelaire lost in his suitcase among today's modern day city streets.

Charles Baudelaire of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY