I was talking to Kirsten, who just had a show at sister. She said she's really getting into The Chefs, and that Helen McCookerybook, who is (or is it was?) in the band, is also in Helen and the Horns. "Tell Annie! This is Annie music!" she enthused. Annie's in The Trusty Knife, and she made a nice video for the band's song It's All Built In. Annie's singing and musical sensibility is sort of like The Chefs and Helen and the Horns. I can see the similarities. She sings in The Trusty Knife. But not much. Usually she's playing bassoon.
Writer Laure Limongi, who has a great blog (if you read French), has been posting songs like crazy on Facebook this afternoon (actually it's night where she is). One of them is Le Zoute Tango by Jacques Brel. It's late-career Brel, with heavy instrumentation and very dramatic. Here he is singing Je ne sais pas, his favorite of his œuvre. And mine, too.
14 February 2009
The Chefs, Helen and the Horns, & Jacques Brel
