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Nouvelle Vague (band)
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| Nouvelle Vague | |
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 Nouvelle Vague playing Rockefeller Music Hall, Norway in February 2007
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| Background information | |
| Origin | France |
| Genre(s) | Bossa nova |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Members | |
| Marc Collin Olivier Libaux Various singers |
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Nouvelle Vague are a French musical collective put together by arrangers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words referring simultaneously to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" (the '60s new wave of cult French cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of new wave and punk music), and their use of '60s Bossa nova-style arrangements (bossa nova meaning "new wave" or "new beat" in Portuguese).
On their first album, Nouvelle Vague, the group resurrected classics from the New Wave music era, and reinterpreted them in a saucy bossa nova style. The songs were stripped back to acoustic arrangements with lithe shaker rhythms achieved by gathering a parade of chanteuses from all over the world (six French, one Brazilian and one New Yorker) to sex up everyone from XTC and Modern English to The Clash and The Undertones. The covers include songs by Joy Division, Dead Kennedys, The Clash and Depeche Mode. The various female singers on Nouvelle Vague only performed songs they were not previously familiar with, to ensure that each cover would have a unique quality.
Their second album, Bande à Part, includes versions of "Ever Fallen in Love?" by Buzzcocks, "Blue Monday" by New Order, "The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen and "Heart of Glass" by Blondie.
Several Nouvelle Vague songs, including "In a Manner of Speaking", "Just Can't Get Enough", and "Teenage Kicks" have been used in the Channel 4 drama Sugar Rush. Their versions of "Just Can't Get Enough" and "Teenage Kicks" have also been used in adverts in the UK. The United States television channel Turner Classic Movies began using Nouvelle Vague's cover of "Dance With Me" by The Lords of the New Church in 2007 for an advertisement featuring selected dance segments from famous films. In 2005, their cover of Modern English's "I Melt with You", was used for the soundtrack of the black comedy film, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and appeared in a 2007 American television commercial for the GMC Acadia. Their cover of The Dead Kennedys "Too Drunk to Fuck" was used in the 2007 film Grindhouse:Planet Terror in a Rape Scene. Recently, their song "Dancing With Myself" has been featured in advertisements for TLC's show LA Ink.
Members, former members and contributors include many French artists who are now very well known on their own and considered as part of what is now called the "Renouveau de la chanson française" (the "Renewal of French chanson"): Anaïs Croze, Camille Dalmais, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain and Marina Céleste.
- Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog, 2004)
- Bande à Part (Peacefrog, 2006)
- Late Night Tales: Nouvelle Vague (Azuli, 2007)
