Nouvelle Vague Vol.1 - Nouvelle Vague

French producer Marc Collin conceived Paris-based Nouvelle Vague as a one-off enterprise that wasn‘t really meant to go anywhere. One of their aims was to show how, some of the classic songs of post-punk synthesizer pop that was produced in the early 1980s could be stripped down and reconstructed into a completely different format. In a way it was an enterprise born out of nostalgia. Nouvelle Vague - the name of the band - in part is a reference to young innovators of 1960s French cinema and can be fittingly translated as either new wave or bossa nova. The Brazilian bossa nova sound of the late 50s early 60s is actually translated as ‘new wave’. After the recordings were ...