Swinging French Lounge Psychedelia
Ralf Dudat | 2 / 41 Doveton Avenue Eumemmerring Victoria Au | 04/10/2004
(2 out of 5 stars)
"Best description for our times would be Austin Powers music in French. This series of CDs runs on the cool, loungy side of psychedelia, with a distinct Continental flavour. Music for swinging dandies. From the discs I have, most of the tracks in this series seem to be presented here in mono, as they perhaps were on first release in the late 60s. However I have some of the same songs on the individual artists' CDs that have been remastered in stereo and the clarity is better. So you can take your pick: buy the seperate remastered albums or get all the choice tracks on one CD , albeit in mono.
If you want French 60s music with less hippy and more of a Yeh-Yeh or lolita rock'n'roll flavour search for April March, early France Gall, the "Femmes De Paris" series or the sometimes more serious, but ever alluring and musically gifted Francoise Hardy."