The steady beat, the grunting, the droning, the sweet, sweet refrain and even the farting noises. It's masterful and I want more like it.
― Mirror-spangled elephant head (J@cob), Monday, 5 April 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)
sounds absolutely nothing like it, but it sounds as good: Emmanuelle Parrenin's 'Maison Rose', and don't make your mind up about it until that track in the middle. The track in the middle gets blogged out of context some times, and if you're into Moebius & Plank & This Heat more than the idea of folky french chanson produced by Popul Vuh circa Hosianna Mantra, then sure skip right to it but man what a reward to hear that album all the way through
(the rest of that Roland Kirk album is pretty great too, and you want to hunt down his track "One Ton" for the flute solo)
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 07:05 (fifteen years ago)
How truly weird. I was just thinking this morning of checking ILM to see if there was a thread about Parrenin, in order to put out a "recommend me more things that sound as good as Maison Rose" plea.
― elephant rob, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)
she comes up briefly on the 'recommend things like Linda Perhacs' Parallelograms' thread. but there are six other Parrenin albums before 'Maison Rose' I'd love to hear discussed, and Bruno Menny is a cool character, I just downloaded his solo electronic album from Continuo's blog & a bunch of the other folk albums he produced in the 70's
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:10 (fifteen years ago)
ok I'll start it: Emanuelle Parrenin 'Maison Rose' 1977
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)