On March
20, The Lost Fingers’ Christian Roberge, Byron Mikaloff and Alex Morrissette
released their fourth gypsy jazz album La
Marquise, and again, they successfully did covers of different francophone
songs from here and elsewhere.
The
Lost Fingers has this particularity of doing exclusively covers of well-known
songs, in French as well as in English. They dig up songs that can be re-appreciated
by a public who never heard them before. La
Marquise is constituted of 13 covers of songs such as “Alors on danse” by
Stromae, “1990” by Jean Leloup and “Joe le taxi” by Vanessa Paradis.
Mikaloff’s
guitar, Morrissette’s double bass and Roberge’s guitar and voice make their
covers unique and sometimes, their versions are better than the original songs.
The way they jazz up the songs change the way you will listen to the songs. For
example, in “1990”, as there’s no beat and the dance style of the song has been
removed, you can concentrate more on the song’s lyrics and their meaning. It’s
quite interesting.
The
“Alors on danse” cover was very well done. First, Roberge’s voice catches the
essence of the song: misery and stress. Second, you might expect less on them,
but they will surprise you on how they brilliantly recreated this electro/pop song
with their guitars.
Overall,
it’s good, but somehow, their last three albums were much better and the songs were
more popular than the one in this fourth album, which might have a great impact
on your liking of La Marquise.
If
you are interested, all their albums are available on iTunes. Tip: buy them
all, even La Marquise. Although it’s
not that great, it’s worth spending eight bucks on it.
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