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A great late album from French composer, arranger, lyricist, singer and all around creative musical force Jean Claude Vannier – with Vannier singing moody, vintage orch pop numbers in a mode that does both JCV and his old collaborator Serge Gainsbourg proudly! The set has a very lively feel to it, which is quite natural, given that the album came about following the group's rehearsals for the Histoire De Melody Nelson performance at London's Barbican in 2006. It features a brilliant group of players who worked with Vannier and Serge Gainsbourg on that uber-iconic album as well as other boundary-busting projects and soundtracks – including Cannabis, La Horse, Slogan and Vannier's own legendary leftfield classic L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches. Vannier's voice is charismatic as can be, and the vintage pulp orchestrations are as fresh as ever. Includes "Londres-Paris-Sofia", "Les Yeux Valise", "Au Desespoir Des Singes", "Les Coquelicots", "La Vie En Live", "Une Partie De Scrabble", "Roses Rouge Sang" and "Un Petit Quelque Chose".

A great late album from French composer, arranger, lyricist, singer and all around creative musical force Jean Claude Vannier – with Vannier singing moody, vintage orch pop numbers in a mode that does both JCV and his old collaborator Serge Gainsbourg proudly! The set has a very lively feel to it, which is quite natural, given that the album came about following the group's rehearsals for the Histoire De Melody Nelson performance at London's Barbican in 2006. It features a brilliant group of players who worked with Vannier and Serge Gainsbourg on that uber-iconic album as well as other boundary-busting projects and soundtracks – including Cannabis, La Horse, Slogan and Vannier's own legendary leftfield classic L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches. Vannier's voice is charismatic as can be, and the vintage pulp orchestrations are as fresh as ever. Includes "Londres-Paris-Sofia", "Les Yeux Valise", "Au Desespoir Des Singes", "Les Coquelicots", "La Vie En Live", "Une Partie De Scrabble", "Roses Rouge Sang", "Un Petit Quelque Chose" and more.

The second in the Make Do & Mend compilation series from B-Music & Finders Keepers – part handpicked sampler of the expansive grooves found by the deep-digging geniuses at Finders Keepers and their their affiliated B-Music, Twisted Nerve and other imprints – and part fundraiser to support those affected by the PIAS warehouse fire in August 2011! 02 was compiled by Manchester's Demdike Stare – whose Sean Canty is a Finders Keepers alum, and tracks include "Toadstrip (Demdike Stare's Double Drop Crash Edit)" by Billy Green, "The Dragon" by Vangelis, "Contraste" by Fusioon, "Utan Utan" by Selda, "Visitors" by Visitors:, "Main Theme From Sitting Target" by Stanley Meyers, "Disco Title Music From Dahshat" by Bappi Lahiri and more. Includes the bonus "Des Ecuries" by Philippe D'Aram, from a forthcoming Finders Keepers release.

Finders Keepers' own selections for the stellar Make Do & Mend series – in which worthy guests curate a comp of their faves from Finders Keepers/Twisted Nerve/B- Music & affiliated imprints – put together by Andy Votel & Doug Shipton! The series works both as a nice sampler of the global psychedelia, funk, eccentric soundtracks and more that the label(s) put out there as well as benefit those effected by the warehouse fires of summer 2011. All of the CDs in the series have been great, but this one is the most exceptional yet for those of us who already own much of the Finders Keepers catalogue – as it's made up mostly of material from forthcoming releases. A taste of great things to come! Includes "Kuppamamma Pettha" by S Janaki, "Baby Baby" by Bruno Spoerri, "Sheherezada" by Emil Dimitrov, "Another Blue Day" by Don & Stevie, "Ramp Walk" by Operation Theatre, "Adi Rani" by Ilayaraja and more. 20 in all.