– Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Live At Pitchfork Festival, Paris – October 31, 2015 – Pitchfork Festival – No sooner has the Summer Festival season come to a close, than the Fall Festival season has started. Ushering in the change of seasons in Europe is The Pitchfork Festival in Paris,
– CBS Hourly News – November 2, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The big news for this November 2nd in 1979 was the death of Jacques Mesrine; France’s John Dillinger – Public Enemy Number 1 in both France and Quebec, gunned down by police as he sat in
– Mehul – Symphony Number 2 – Ernest Bour Conducting the Strasbourg Municipal Orchestra – 1950 – Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. The Conductor Ernest Bour is a household name to enthusiasts of Contemporary Classical Music. His premieres of music by Ligeti and Stockhausen are milestones in music
– Lou Doillon – In Session at Studio Kerwax – October 8, 2015 – Studio Kerwax, France – Lou Doillon is one of those multi-talents the French seem to be so good at finding and cultivating. The daughter of film Director Jacques Doillon and British actress and singer Jane Birkin,
– Yael Naîm – In Session for Arte, Paris – September 16, 2015 – Arte Web, France – To consider that Israeli-French singer/songwriter Yael Naïm suddenly soared to international fame, based on her 2008 single New Soul, as the result of being used in an Apple TV commercial, you begin
– Moodoïd – In Session at Oui-FM Rock Sessions – March 27, 2015 – Oui-FM, Paris – Moodoïd are a relatively new band. A side project of Pablo Padovani, guitarist for Melody’s Echo Chamber, Moodoïd has been around since 2013. There has been a lot of interest in the band,
– Nicoletta – 4 Songs – Barclay Records 1967 – For those of you not familiar with the extraordinary, spellbinding voice of Nicoletta (aka Nicoletta Grisoni), you’ve missed something. Having a string of hits in France in the 1960s and early 70s, admired by none other than Ray Charles and
– CBS World News Roundup – September 14, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 14, 1985 – a day where both pessimism and promise were running neck and neck. The pessimistic part came with news of the successful testing of an anti-nuclear weapon against a target in space.
– Luis Fernando Perez recital – Chambord Festival – July 27, 2011 – RFI France Musique – A classic recital this week. From the Chambord Festival in France in 2011, a recital by renowned Spanish pianist Luis Fernando Pérez, recorded by Radio France Musique on July 27, 2011. A wonderfully
– News of The World- Blue Network – September 2, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Despite the announcers breathless proclamation that it was “Tuesday September 3rd” it was actually Tuesday September 2nd in 1941. No matter, it was still a day where reports of German raids over England,
