LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ Primary International) - In 2004, the transposition of punk/new wave songs from the 80's into a 60's Bossa Nova style was the initial statement of the
'Nouvelle Vague' project, a French saying which translates as
'New Wave' in English and
'Bossa Nova' in Portuguese.
The truth about this statement, which can be verified on the first album that sold over 400,000 copies, was that by making a song travel in time, by taking it to another continent, by changing its sex (all the songs on the first album were sung by female vocalists: Camille, Me'lanie Pain, Eloisia, Silja, Marina Celeste), they exposed its unrevealed beauty.
On Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux's 2nd album - "Bande a' Part" (released in 2006) - Nouvelle Vague widened the borders of its musical language by adding touches of Reggae, Ska, Blues... and continued to offer to 80's songs a unique promenade through time and space.
In the meantime the band was building an intense stage identity through hundreds of concerts worldwide.
Nouvelle Vague had undertaken the task to define the contours of a heterogeneous "cover" which respects the original title and author but utilises a different musical language capable of federating the music lover (although dearly attached to the originals), as well as a wider range of public for who the originals have become less known, and of course the original artists.
Amongst the latter in no particular order: The Clash, Depeche Mode, The Undertones, Killing Joke, Modern English, Morrissey, The Dead Kennedys, Echo and the Bunnymen... have all approved of Nouvelle Vague's creations in one way or another.
The band releases its new album "NV3" on 3rd June 2009.
The form evolves within the Nouvelle Vague concept but the backbone remains the same: revealing impeccable songwriting hidden in the shadows of more or less famous 80's songs which are highlighted by the help of the band's famous female voices (Me'lanie Pain, Nadeah Miranda, Eloisia, Marina Celeste, Phoebe Killdeer, Siljia), the whole remaining pertinent and meaningful.
Nouvelle Vague reaches the point where a song, although already perfectly rendered in its original version, can still become a completely different one, to the extent that sometimes the public doubts whether it is a "cover" or not.
Nouvelle Vague's approach is so unusual that some of the original authors accepted to participate in the recording of the "NV3" cover of their own songs.
This is the statement of this 3rd album.
We never hear of any artists singing on covers which dissemble so much from the song their originally wrote nearly 30 years ago, or even covering their own song.
There are a variety of musical tones proposed by Nouvelle Vague on this third album such as Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Americana, Pop...
And the loop is looped when we hear on a "Nouvelle Vague" cover the voice of Martin Gore (Depeche Mode), Ian McCullough (Echo and The Bunnymen), Barry Adamson (Magazine), Terry Hall (The Specials), Samy Birnbach (Minimal Comact) or Chris Bailey (The Saints)...
WHO IS NOUVELLE VAGUE:
- MARC COLLIN is a French producer and musician, amongst his accomplished works we can mention "Hollywood Mon Amour", "Volga Select", Phoebe Killdeer's album, Avril's album, etc...
- OLIVIER LIBAUX is a French producer and musician, amongst his accomplished works we can mention two solo projects mixing theatre, cinema and songwriting: "L'heroine au bain" et "Imbecile". As well as his collaborations with Emilie Simon, Carla Bruni, Le Tone, Alex Gopher and numerous projects with Marc Collin, etc...
- ME'LANIE PAIN, the French woman, is an original Nouvelle Vague singer since she participated in the very first concert in Paris on the 1st May 2004. She is "the" voice of several "classics" of the Nouvelle Vague repertoire "This is not a love song", "Teenage Kicks", "Dance With Me", "The Killing Moon", "Ever Fallen In Love" etc...
On NV3, Me'lanie Pain sings "Master and Servant' with Martin Gore, "All My Colours" with Ian McCulloch and "God Save The Queen". - NADEAH MIRANDA is the new performer in Nouvelle Vague, succeeding Phoebe Killdeer who had herself replaced Camille.
Originating from Australia she is also the singer in projects such as The Lovegods and Venus Gets Heaven and has collaborated with Marc Collin on Hollywood Mon Amour.
On NV3, Nadeah sings "Road to Nowhere", "Parade", "So lonely', to name just a few... - PHOEBE KILLDEER well-know amongst Nouvelle Vague fans and worldwide audiences for having performed hundreds of shows with the band and for her interpratation of some of the band's 'classics' such as "Human Fly", 'Bela Lugosi's Dead" or "Dancing With Myself".
She sings "Not Knowing" on this new album.
She is building in parallel a brilliant career with her solo project: Phoebe Killdeer and The Short Straws. - ELOISIA is another leading singer of the Nouvelle Vague project, originating from Brazil, she sings "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "Just Can't Get Enough" on the first album.
On 'NV3' she sings "Blister In The Sun" and "Metal". - SILJA is the famous voice on the cover of "I Melt With You" on the first album. Originating from America, she now lives in Paris and sings "The American" on this new album.
- KARINA ZEVIANI sings "Heaven" on NV3, a cover of the Psychedelic Furs song. She is from Brazil and lives in NYC, she also performs with Thievery Corporation and writes/composes for her own project "Radiola".
- MARINA CELESTE is another original Nouvelle Vague voice who sang "A Forest" on the 1st album, "Waves", "Eisbear" and "Fade To Grey" on the 2nd. On this 3rd album she she sings "Our Lips Are Sealed" with Terry Hall.
- JENIA LUBICH is a Russian singer who sings "Marooned" and "Aussi Belle Qu'une Balle" on NV3.
- LEELOO is an English singer who has worked with Marc Collin on "Hollywood Mon Amour" and has occasionally replaced Phoebe Killdeer for some live performances. She is currently recording her debut album.
- SOPHIE DELILA sings "Such A Shame" and "Say Hello Goodbye" on this new album, she has released her debut album this year on Universal Music.
