{"title":"Freaksville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreaksville Records is a Belgian-based indie French pop label. It's more than just a label; it's a family of music lovers, musicians, illustrators, producers, artists, and lyricists from Belgium and other countries. The unique sound of Freaksville sets it apart in the world of French pop music. Each *Freaksville* song is a surrealistic blend of French and English louche chansons, perverted blues, electronic pop, and noisy garage rock. Experience the essence of Freaksville through their experimental musical pop tracks!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nothing-to-write-home-about","title":"Nothing To Write Home About","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is a story that began 55 years ago, and it is not even Belgian. It's the story of Robbi Curtice, a young Londoner in the 1960s who dreamed of becoming a star and who, after trying his luck quickly, went into exile in Cyprus to become a teacher. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut rock, by chance, catches up with him in the early 2000s, in what looks like a Sixto Rodriguez remake, when French director Serge Bozon stumbles upon Robbi's 1970s track Gospel Lane. With the help of composer Benjamin Esdraffo, also a fan of American garage music and Northen Soul, the filmmaker decided to track down this unknown connoisseur and have him record some songs in Paris. 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He is accompanied here by his companions Julien Gasc, Nina Savary and Vincent Guyot (as Ulysses' companions were known). Each contributes to the composition, arrangement and instrumentation of this colourful and enchanting odyssey. Mario and Savary have been living for years in an isolated former sheepfold in the South of France and have gradually gathered around them a band of artists and musicians who have come to escape their daily lives. The compositions in La Bibliotheque De La Bergerie were born of this timeless space of freedom. Each musician's musical obsessions can be found on the album, as they travel from one track to the next: soundtracks like the ones of De Roubaix or Alessandroni (Le Fleuve De La Nuit), experimental and classy pop like Stereolab\/High Llamas (Loterie Solaire) or primary and repetitive electronic music (Tous A Zanzibar tome 3). The choirs and mixed voices of Nina Savary and Julien Gasc add a sunny, melancholy touch to the whole (En Attendant L'Année Dernière). The name Bibliothèque De La Bergerie is a double nod to Library Music, a trend in musical illustration for TV and radio that had its heyday in the 60s, 70s and 80s. And to the aforementioned bergerie, a living space and creative studio. The more observant may also have noticed the titles of the tracks, taken from the novels of the golden age of science fiction. Emmanuel Mario and his friends invite you to escape to another time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Freaksville","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50417058513227,"sku":"2051319","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/La_Bibliotheque_de_la_Bergerie_311c3d55_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726715195"},{"product_id":"ela","title":"Ela","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe latest record from Jean-Jacques Perrey, one of the pioneers of electronic pop and moog music, and now aged 86, is a collaboration with the young French maverick David Chazam. An electropop duo through the ages! It features new material, previously unavailable, and material from a rare live peformance in Brussels Perrey has received a wave of worldwide re-cognition by artists like Dj Premier, Gangstarr, Air, Wagon Christ, Dj Shadow, etc...with French electronic musicians and hipsters eager to collect the past knowledge, roots, and influences of their own work.LP - Vinyl is 180 gram vinyl. 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Benjamin is not just an artist but an impresario, the founder and head honcho of Belgian label Freaksville (presiding over a musical family of unparalleled creativity), an in-demand producer, a radio show host, an actor, an illustrator and all-round Action Man to boot. Here though, we get - in full technicolor - Benjamin Schoos singer-songwriter par excellence. \"Prolifique et romantique\" said French weekly Les Inrocks recently, not to mention \"un peu fou\" (a little crazy). The Seraing-born singer mines the chansons francaises populaires, the production values of Phil Spector and David Axelrod, the orchestral flourishes of Jean-Claude Vannier and the frisson of fabulous Gainsbourg duets from the 60s and 70s, and then turns it all into something new and distinctive. Here are the lush strings and cupid harps of 'Je ne vois que vous' and its divine sequel 'Derniere danse' (both with Laetitia Sadier), the lushly resplendent and atmospheric 'Une fille on or' and 'Un parfum de nostalgie', via the art deco futuristic fantasies of 'La grande aventure' and 'Le cascadeur'. Other highlights include a duet with April March ('J'ai essay de t'aimer') and the inimitable wrestling chanson 'Profession catcheur', from which the compilation takes its titular inspiration. 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