söndag 8 Jan 2006, 20:01

Hi all,

first, here is my 2005 top 10 :
1. brisa roché - the chase. Fantastic first album by this cute american girl who lives in Paris. A great mix of 60's pop, rock, cinematic & jazz.
2. philippe katerine - Robots après tout. This man is mad, this record is insane, full of weird groovebox & silly lyrics
3. albin de la simone - je vais changer. This is how good 'chanson française' can be.
4. julien baer - notre-dame des limites. i adore this album even if it's not as fantastic as his 1st two, which were released last millenium. Betwen chanson, funk, pop & reggae.
5. morrissey - live at earl's court. We would have preferred more songs from his 1st solo album, nevertheless this is a real great live record, Morrissey sings better than ever.
6. saint etienne - Tales From Turnpike House. This is a beautiful pop album, don't expect to dance much on this saint etienne record… but expect a big smile on your face.
7. mathieu boogaerts - michel. Stripped down, minimalistic french chanson record. You feel mathieu is sitting next too you whispering slowly his beautiful & sad song.
8. alain chamfort - impromptu dans les jardins du luxembourg. 1st live record for this 57 years old French crooner. He has written some wonderful songs in the last 30 years, including the hit "manureva" with serge gainsbourg. His voice when he sings live is so-so, but the songs are perfect and the brit-pop arrangments are very effective.
9. rosa passos - amorosa. Portuguese bossa nova singer, her voice is so sweet.
10. the clientele - strange geometry. as always, they sound between felt, any 60s obscure pop band, & galaxie 500.
11. tarwater - the needle was travelling. I prefer their earlier recordings, but their mixture of new wave, pop, post rock & idm is still really nice.
(ok, that makes 11).

2nd, we (Watoo Watoo) played 3 songs at a concert that some of my students organized last month. that was great fun. We played one song from le fumalin (l'attrait) & 2 new songs (ne pas croire & perdu). I was at the bass, pascale sang & we had a backing track playing on a computer.

3rd, I've written lots of new lyrics. This will help me finish some old songs waiting in my hard drive.

4th, Didier Duclos, who has already played guitar on many of our songs, will play again with us. he now has a computer with a decent soundcard and an internet connection (he's in paris, we're in bordeaux, 600 km s-w).

5th, here are some new photos: http://www.watoowatoo.net/photo

6th… http://a.korchia.free.fr/2006.jpg

thx for reading