Francoiz Breut [Extra tracks, Import]

Francoiz Breut | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: EMI France
• ASIN: B00003IQLT
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #323,663 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tarifa

2. Ma Colere

3. Rue Ne Te Reprendra Pas

4. Everyone Kisses A Strange

5. Femme Sans Histoire

6. Nord

7. Motus

8. Don D'ubiquite

9. Apres La Nuit

10. My Wedding Man

Editorial Reviews

Following in the Same Downbeat Pop Traditions of Serge Gainesbourg, Francois Hardy and France Gall Comes the Debut Album from Breut. 10 Tracks Build Upon One Another to Create a Meloncholy Atmosphere Soothed Over by her Captivating Vocals.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ten stars, really!, September 8, 2002

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Francoiz Breut (Audio CD)

WOW. One of the most striking, alluring, atmospheric, jazzy, sexy French albums you're likely to hear. When this came out in 1996, I was DJ-ing on a local noncommercial station & whenever I would play it, a dozen people would call to ask "wow! what is this!?" If you are looking for a truly enchanting, truly different-sounding record to groove out on, give this a try. This features smoky, Marianne Faithfull-style vocals swathed in a cloak of dreamy, somewhat foreboding arrangements not unlike Marc Ribot-era Tom Waits, or (dare I say it?) the Cowboy Junkies... Highly recommnended! (PS - you might also check out her boyfriend and musical partner, Dominique A, who also has several good albums out, and who co-produced this album... two of the best, most original French rock artists of the 1990s...)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Francoiz Breut's Seductive and Stylish French Pop, February 7, 2005

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Gavin B. (St. Louis MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Francoiz Breut (Audio CD)

Francoiz Breut's music in firmly rooted the stylish French pop tradition of Jane Birkin and Francois Hardy. The dense atomospheric musical arrangements chart the same musical terrain of classic sixties producers like Serge Gainsbourg, Lee Hazelwood, and even Brian Wilson. In contrast to the voluptuous arrangements is Francoiz's airy vocal presence. Her voice is so light it floats above the music weaving a spell of hypnotic seduction.

Cherbourg native Francoiz Breut has the mysterious aura of the beautiful Gallic muse in the tradition of Jeanne Moreau.
Her elusive persona is as much what she is not; as what she is...Or as Nico so aptly put it,"I am your mirror"; a paradoxical reflection of both desire and detachment. Her vocals are at once; deeply wounded, icy, intimately playful and breathlessly passionate. This CD, Francoiz Breut's 2000 self titled debut, along with her 2001 cult favorite "Vingt a Trente: Mille Jours" are both recommended as overlooked masterpieces by a singer who personfies style and orginality, in a world of by-the-numbers, artless pop music. Those who appreciate the brooding chanteuse persona of singers Nico, Marianne Faithfull or Portishead's Beth Gibbons will find Francoiz Breut's music to be a revelation.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars breathtaking, January 10, 2000

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Eric Benoit (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

when i first heard this lp, i thought, where has this been all my life? this album has moved me more than countless others in years. the last time i was this affected was in 93 with seefeel. this album is simply astounding; delicate, breathy, melancholic, aching, the descriptives could go on. the closest similarities in music are, mazzy star and nico, with a bit of francoise hardy. highly recommended!