So I recently found a great new artist to listen to. His music is a mix of balkan and jazz. What a perfect combination of genres for the heavy brass music of Ibrahim Maalouf. He’s an Arabic trumpet player/composer who lives in France. So there is a great mélange of culture that also comes out […]
French
Song for smokers and slackers.
My first French chanson of this semester: Hôtel by Poulenc. FRANCIS POULENC: A Neo-Classical composer of the 20th century(around the same time as Igor Stravinsky and a little after Claude Debussy). HÔTEL: Lyrics by Guillaume Apollinaire. A song about being in a tight Hotel room, wanting to do nothing but smoke aka très francais. Translation […]
