Jolie Mome: La Muse De Saint Germain Des Pres (RSD 2020) Vinyl / 12" Album (Limited Edition)

Limited edition 500 pressing in glorious colour vinyl. Double album - disc one is red vinyl, disc two is blue vinyl. Think back to that mid-20th Century world when music, film and everything else we love began... On day 1, before YeYe, before Beat, before Elvis, before Bardot, before Rock 'N' Roll, before -anything-, young Juliette Gréco just -was-...queen of bohemian Paris, close to Camus, Miles Davis and the existentialist circles of the day, she began to perform in the Rive Gauche cafes, as Satre said she had 'millions of poems in her voice' and he wrote liner notes on her albums too! Why just her hand movements could express a song like nothing else! Both Muse and Artist, sex symbol and Feminist icon, movie star for Cocteau, and yes, Belphegor, the creepiest arty horror series in TV history! The creator of the modern woman to a great extent, she made Chanson a viable form for dissent and arty pop, invented everyone from Jacques Brel to Serge Gainsbourg to Scott Walker to Nick Cave, made all the female punk performers possible. She had intelligence, looks, attitude and talent, and yes, she made some great records too! Here are just a few of them....