I'm just curious: did you find some Franch music you like?

Well I'm still searching. But you know its very interesting to discover completely new things. I will write here if I find something which goes good
together with leo ferre.

Did you find songs we recomended? (I agree with Blubs choice too)
Didn't find or don't like ("don't go good
together with leo ferre")?

I've listened some of songs you suggested, and you know what?

Ajda Pekkan - Her Yerde Kar Var = Adamo - Tombe La Neige

I've heard music you like, and I'm sure you'll like what we recomended you.

Merhaba Sibel,
Thank you for the songs you have e-mailed me. I have listened to them all. Nice surprise sending me Adamo who was known in Turkey a long time ago.

I thought I wouldnt like Patricia Kaas. I had heard her songs many times here and there. But you know she is French and she is a sophisticated woman with a nice voice and its hard for me not to like her.

Gilbert Becaud, isnt my cup of tea. I have listened to the song you send to me, "JE REVIENS TE CHERCHER" and I didnt like it. His music is OK but its not my kind. I mean I probably would love this song if I come across to it in a movie or in a public place but I wouldnt like listening it when on my own. The details are completely different. I think its very important how the artist interacts with the listener. Is it too much publicised or personalised or this kind small details are important, you know. Sometimes there is too much snobbism especially with artists who sing in English. Therefore its very hard for me to find music I like. But the following names are certainly exceptions for me.

These are the ones I like most:
Joe Dassin:
He is perfect. JOE DASSIN - ET SI TU N'EXISTAIS PAS
Feels very French to me.

Jaques Brell:
He is incredible, very good indeed. The song "NE ME QUITTE PAS" has the melancholy I like.

A few months ago in a Turkish forum I had asked for advice on French music.
http://www.turkrock.com/ftopic25542.html I found two songs of Joe Dassin at the time and I thought he wasnt bad. But the song you have send me is much better. It was one of those songs I heard somewhere, probably from another artist. Maybe P. Kaas.

I think it will be a good idea for me to try to listen in this order, from the fast and exciting to the dark and deep starting with Kaas, continuing with Dassin, Brell and ending with Ferre.

I will search for songs of artists mentioned here by other members. So if anyone has names in mind just mention them. Its a pleasure for me to find about the french artists.

Celine Dilon has many great songs in French.Dallida is not bad.But I like Charles Aznavour most.He projects the grand romantic fantasy in his personality.
"I write for people about people, about human problems - and first one is Love.But I don't always make it sweet.I leave it just as it is, with all the good and bad parts of it.I write about things that people gladly do but do not dare talk about" - Charles Aznavour.
"The British and Americans have always seen popular music as part of industry, whereas in France they treat it as part of art. Such original artists as Reinhardt, Grappelli and Edith Piaf bear witness to the fact that quality and popularity can go hand in glove.
Of all the great French chanteurs, and there have been a good many, Charles Aznavour is the most complete.His best songs always seem to spill out from his own experience; he says about his method of composing: 'I work like a photographer.When I see an interesting person or problem, I put them into words, frame it into music.'
Added to this, Charles Aznavour is a first-rate actor, and not least of all when he is singing a dramatic ballad, the witty, romantic lover is changed with the deftness of a mime artist into the boastful "ham performer", or the midle-aged man regretting his squeandered youth.
Aznavour knows the the secret.He understands that the romantic fantasies we all experience are for indefinable reasons never more seductive than when sing by sad-eyed Frenchman."
Barri Fntoni

"He projects the grand romantic fantasy in his personality - a tense presence that embodies sadness and ecstasy in equal parts - and not least of all in his songs, a composite of all the emotions that make up the illusion of Love."
Laurie Henshaw
If sombody is interested in , I can share with all.
I prefer to listen old fashoned way, the records on turntable.It is totally different thing.Try it, you'll love it.
I hope this will be interesting for you.
Regards Bliss

Merhaba, Erdinç
I'm glad you have already four songs in your new collection.
Wish you luck in further searching, I know how exciting it could be.
I'll try to help as much as I can.
HoşÃ§akal,
Sibel

Selam Erdinç

Thanks a lot for the music information you posted. I know I am very very late with this post, but I have moved to another place, and I was without an internet connection for more than 4 weeks!
But now that I'm all settled again, I can check them out.

Cok tesekkurler
Kendine iyi bak

Elisa

Hello Elisa,
Welcome back.I was wondering where were you because for long time did not see you, and was a little worry.I am glad to see you again.

Well thank you Bliss, that's really nice of you to think of me!

For French Music... i cant forget the taste of "Noir Desir"
especially Le Vent Nous Portera..

well dunno if the story is true the solist of the band is in prison becoz he has killed his wife.. for a reason his love to her finished and he didnt want sb else to love his wife and then he shooted her.. what a passion eh?