Finis Terrae, Brittany

Bonjour Chanson Series 10, Episode 46.

From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 10
Length: 29:21

This Episode of "Bonjour Chanson" runs the gamut from a fantastic world where kids solve mysteries hidden in iron masks and stone sarcophagi, to a wronged woman who takes a rival who wants to steal her man to task. Read the full description.

Piece Audio

Playing: Bonjour Chanson Series 10, Episode 46.
From: Charles Spira

Finis_terrae_small We find the best of French Language Popular Music and bring it to you with English commentary. Jacques Brel recreates the scary times of 20th Century World Wars when young men were taken to the front by steam trains, to become fodder for artillery and machine guns. A Breton woman living in Paris tells her lover that she'll never be the Parisian beauty he imagines her to be because her heart is where the land ends and the raging sea begins under the vast skies of her Breton coastal town. Experience what the French feel and how they think without having to know French. Here is the lineup:
Cyril Mokaiesh, (France), Le Sens du Manege
La Boite a Ooti, (France), L'interpretation des Signes
Antoine, Bleck, (USA, France), Un Tunnel
Nolwenn Leroy, (France), Je ne Serai Jamais ta Parisienne
Jacques Brel, (Belgium), La Colombe)
Brigitte, (France), La Vengeance d'Une Louve.

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Piece Description

We find the best of French Language Popular Music and bring it to you with English commentary. Jacques Brel recreates the scary times of 20th Century World Wars when young men were taken to the front by steam trains, to become fodder for artillery and machine guns. A Breton woman living in Paris tells her lover that she'll never be the Parisian beauty he imagines her to be because her heart is where the land ends and the raging sea begins under the vast skies of her Breton coastal town. Experience what the French feel and how they think without having to know French. Here is the lineup:
Cyril Mokaiesh, (France), Le Sens du Manege
La Boite a Ooti, (France), L'interpretation des Signes
Antoine, Bleck, (USA, France), Un Tunnel
Nolwenn Leroy, (France), Je ne Serai Jamais ta Parisienne
Jacques Brel, (Belgium), La Colombe)
Brigitte, (France), La Vengeance d'Une Louve.

Transcript

Bonjour Chanson Series 10, Episode 46

Play Track 01 seconds 13 to 49 ? “Le Sens du Manege.”

Start text segment 1 ? Welcome to “Bonjour Chanson”. In this episode we bring you six French songs that run the gamut from an avenging she-wolf to youngsters who decipher the creepy mysteries of stone sarcophagi and old papyrus scrolls. We tell the stories in English and you’ll be able to enjoy the songs in French because you’ll know what they are about. My name is Charles Spira and I’ll be your host.

You heard an excerpt from a song by Cyril Mokaiesh. The title can be translated two ways “The Direction of the Carousel” or “The Meaning of the Carousel”. More about this song and the promising young composer/songwriter at the end of the show.

When the young female singer Ooti Skulf got together with the composer John Trap and the lyricist Arnaud Le Gouefflec, the Extended Play CD “La Boit...
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Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
Le Sens du Manege	Cyril Mokaiesh	Du Rouge et des Passions.	AZ	2011	03:39
L'interpretation des Signes	La Boite a Ooti	L'interpretation des Signes.	YY Label	2011	03:09
Un Tunnel	Antoine Bleck	Mes Illusions.	CD Baby.Com	2006	03:36
Je ne Serai Jamais ta Parisienne	Nolwenn LeRoy	Bretonne.	Mercury Records	2010	03:11
La Colombe	Jacques Brel	Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons de Jacques Brel.	Barclay	2007	03:00
La Vengeance d'une Louve	Brigitte	Et Vous Tu M'aimes?.	Troisieme Bureau	2011	03:21