Coming Home
Stereo Deluxe
SOUNDTRACK
NOUVELLE VAGUE’s (OLIVIER LIBAUX and MARC COLLIN) unusual and charming rearrangements of various new wave and post-punk classics has become a classic itself. Accordingly, Libaux and Collin have, with help from their singers (among others MELANIE PAIN, GERALD TOTO), bared the heart and soul of songs by JOY DIVISION, THE CLASH or BLONDIE and translated them into chanson and bossa nova spheres on their last two albums.
For this ‘Coming Home’ compilation, they have come up with a special concept: ‘Coming Home’ compiles 20 pieces that are all taken from movie soundtracks.
Here Nouvelle Vague’s Marc Collin introduces the remotely obscure and strange as well as the obviously glamorous. They do so simply as a matter-of-course, a circumstance which is definitely based on qualitative substance and long experience. Selecting songs for any compilation is difficult. Especially film music - because on the one hand it seems familiar, and on the other hand it also has to prove itself without visual backing.
From the elegance of JOHN BARRY (“007 And Counting” from “Diamonds Are Forever”) to the much-sampled alien funk of ALAIN GORAGUER (“Deshominisation” from “LA PLANÈTE SAUVAGE”) to the cool sarcasm of SERGE GAINSBOURG (“Requiem Pur Un Con” from “Le Pacha”) to VANGELIS’ opulent “La Petite Fille De La Mer” from “L’Apocalypse Des Animaux”, this universe has no limits.
With this ‘Coming Home’ episode, Nouvelle Vague accomplish the rare feat of creating their own creation from compositions of diverse masters from various decades in a homogeneous context that, with all due respect to originals and a cautious approach, always knows exactly how the dramaturgy of their own mind-movie works. Fantastic!!
This is one of the best soundtrack compilations ever made – don’t miss this!!
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