Exclusive Creation directed by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac !

“I used Nouvelle Vague as a time machine to take me back to the pop colors and the darker tones of the ‘80s, a decade that was both glamorous and somber at the same time,” offers Jean-Charles de Castelbajac.

Led by Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux, the group will do what they do best: revisit favorite punk and new wave standards, and pay tribute to French ‘80s music, as they will incorporate songs from their last opus, ‘Couleurs sur Paris’, into their musical performance.

If the first three albums were very much attached to UK new wave and post punk, ‘Couleurs sur Paris’, the group’s fourth album – but the first on Barclay records (Universal) – revisits the French ‘New Wave’ that spread throughout the country during the 70s and on into much of the following decade. To celebrate this ‘new wave made in France’, the usual line-up of female vocalists has been extended far beyond the usual confines of the group, with each track sung by an artist from the current French scene, the very scene that grew up with these songs and is proud of it.

‘Couleurs sur Paris’ (Kwaidan/Barclay) 2010

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