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La Grande Frida Boccara: l'Ultime Compilation

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I'm not so sure about the songs themselves, but Frida's voice was like a double blue light saber of acoustic awesomeness. Cheesy euro-string-pad orchestrations simply cannot compete with that vocal power. You get the feeling throughout that the recording engineers had to continually get her to restrain herself, lest she might get carried away and destroy the studio.

It's not just that it's in French; when she sings in English, the effect is the same - a part of your brain that's been sort-of sitting around waiting for somebody to **really** sing to it wakes up and goes nuts whether it understands the words or not. That Frida died of a "pulmonary infection" is the ultimate irony - I have no idea how that could possibly be the case, but reality is a terrible, dangerous place, and none of us are safe.

You must hear this voice. The world has been spinning around the sun for a long time, and it'll keep doing it no matter what else happens. For a brief time, a tiny creature on a hideous little rock was capable of blasting out of a simple corporeal frame to transcend space, time, and the mesh of existence. It's on little shiny disks that we are miraculously able to enjoy. None of it makes any sense, so just spend your worthless money on something without boundaries. Make your friends listen. Let this miraculous voice into your being.

An excellent compilation from a great voice. I learned about Frida Boccara from the eurovision song contest (although I am only 27 years old)and I was really moved by her voice. So I started to buy her cds. This is the fourth cd of hers I buy and I discovered some rare songs, like Mr Gallaghan, Verte Campagne and Aujourd'hui. Of course it includes her most known songs, like Un jour un enfant (eurovision 1969, 1st place for France), Cent mille chansons and Pour vivre ensemble. I also like very much Les moulins de mon coeur and Un soleil d' amour. The booklet of the cd consists of 24 pages, and it includes pictures, biography, a hand-written note by her sister Lina Boccara (all in french) and information about the songs. I highly recommend this cd to everyone, Frida's voice is amazing and very expressive. I hope that there will be more cds of hers on the market, as at the moment there are very few.