Nouvelle Vague Vol.1 - Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague Nouvelle Vague are a French collective who covered New Wave songs on this album, their singers are generally silky voiced latin women, who bring an entirely new element to the song, along with the easy listening brass and strings accompaniment. This is a great backing track for dinner parties or social gatherings and has a real charm and style to it bringing together a cool genre with an interesting style variant, its available on Amazon.co.uk for £14.98. Tracks The tracks on the album are all covers of other bands, they are as follows: JOY DIVISION : Love will tear us apart (feat. ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review