Paris Combo - Living Room

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Music Review: Incredible! Magnifique! Formidable!! (all the French I know)
Rating: 5 Stars

The album begins with "Living Room" which would have to be one of my all-time favorite songs in any style. What's more, it just never drops off from this level for the rest of the album.

"Homeron" is another track more than worth the price of the album - in fact, the intro to "Homeron" is worth the price. Then there's "Senor", "Je Sui Sourde" and so on. There is no such thing as a weak track here.

I don't speak a word of French and neither do my friends (we're all 16 year olds) and yet we're always singing along to Madame Du Berry and pretending to be very cool indeed. "Cool" is, after all, the word to describe this album. Quite often during exams I'll find myself coming home, putting on this CD and just relaxing and forgetting about what's going on (not neccessarily a good thing if I also forgot the stuff I knew for the exams).

Before I got into Paris Combo, I used to rubbish jazz but believe me when I say that this is what it should be like. If you close your eyes while listening to this, you can almost see yourself in a smoky bar in the 1920s - possibly with private detectives milling around in trenchcoats. Mood music indeed.

Every single instrument is played to virtuoso level here. Belle sings like an angel, the bass and drums are done superbly, same goes for the trumpets and horns. For my money, David Lewis carries some of the songs with his trumpet solos. Of course, I might just be saying that because Lewis is a former Australian - but even so, without that knowledge it's very hard to fault him.

One of the best policies when listening to this is, if you don't speak French, forget about the words. A friend of mine was amazed that they were singing about "someone's living room" as she put it - I don't know what they are singing about but it hardly matters.

In short, buy this album. There's something here for most people and even if there isn't something specifically for you, you'll know someone who'll love it. C'est Magnifique!!

Description of Living Room

flamenco and gypsy guitar riffs a la Django Rheinhardt, music of the orient, French pop, Spanish and Italian melodies. Paris Combo delivers with the freshness and vitality of modern swing.

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