Sunday, January 17, 2021

Quelque Chose Pour Dimanche Dept. - St. Germain

Where were you as the century turned? Ludovic Navarre was in the studio, creating something that captured a time in flux and yet remained above it, a bubble of perfect sound that met with no resistance. Tourist was the soundtrack to what we hoped would be the movie of our lives. A travelogue of sorts, a journey a daydream might take you, dancing from a Parisian club to a Jamaican beach ... 

If you're locked down and out, here's the postcard you sent yourself twenty years ago. Wish you were here? There's nowhere else you can be - we're all tourists.

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15 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIJanuary 17, 2021 at 3:58 PM

    Your beady eye may have alerted you to the presence of more than one album here ... Tourist is a two disc set, with three remixes on the second, and From Detroit To St. Germain the limited double disc edition.

    Putain!

    (Stealth Link activated)


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  2. Jack Kerouac's CatJanuary 17, 2021 at 8:41 PM

    Nice post!

    I haven't heard the remixes, will play them later. Thank you.

    Four Or Five Guys© who dig 'Tourist' and 'From Detroit to St. Germain', should check out Ludovic's first release ‘Boulevard’

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2021 at 11:06 PM

    Hankie, Cap'n?

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  4. pmacJanuary 18, 2021 at 12:24 AM

    Electronica? And, I forgot my nitrous tank.

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    1. Jack Kerouac's CatJanuary 18, 2021 at 1:13 AM

      whippets and balloons

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    2. Eric S.January 18, 2021 at 2:44 AM

      Pride of teh ATX: Amyl Nitrate & The Whippets until then Amyl went to law school followed by Donna Bondage & The Whippets and she went on to policy school or something, and then just The Whippets. Where the (v) young Jon Dee Graham got his Austin start. Helluva a guitar player.

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    3. Eric S.January 18, 2021 at 2:45 AM

      circa 1977-80

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    4. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIJanuary 18, 2021 at 6:56 AM

      Although hard to define, Tourist was released on Blue Note and accepted as a jazz album. Live playing over loops. "Electronica" makes me think of acts like Aphex Twin, and this is definitely not that.

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  5. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIJanuary 18, 2021 at 6:29 AM

    This is possibly niche appeal even for the 4/5, but here's his first from 1994, Boulevard from 1995, and St Germain, from 2015.



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  6. jonderJanuary 18, 2021 at 9:52 AM

    Dear Mr. Throckmorton,

    If I mark that postcard "Return To Sender", will it go back in time to my younger self? What if I don't want to know now what I didn't know then?

    Yours truly, Bob Seger

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  7. bazmaniaJanuary 18, 2021 at 12:17 PM

    A belated thank you for supplying me with the Television link. As always, much appreciated. Unfortunately an ear infection has prevented me from hearing but I use my imagination instead. You are, Mr Throckmorton III, as we used to say, a pukka sahib. The Rev.Dr.Baz

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  8. jonderJanuary 18, 2021 at 8:07 PM

    It seems my account was "hacked" by this Seger fellow. He seems harmless enough -- he likes rocks, and old time rock & roll. He has clearly stated his opposition to the wind, which (as we all know) causes cancer. But where does he stand on the Bad Hombres of the weather world -- monsoons, typhoons, tsunamis, hurricanes, murder hornets -- that cross our borders illegally and take jobs away from old fashioned American-made dust storms, boll weevils and locusts?

    Do the research on Seger and you find that he is an untrustworthy character, a rambling gambling man who moves by night. People say he was run out of Denver for being a Commie. He may be involved in Antifa or the Weather Underground.

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    1. UncleBJanuary 19, 2021 at 4:12 AM

      I know a guy who simply DESPISES any and all Seger-sound vocalists.

      Put on ANYTHING in that "gruff," or "raspy," workin' man type shout-yelp type sangin' "genre," and he's out the door (not before some choice curses, ranting and raving, etc.)

      Short list of his pet hates:

      John(ny) Cougar (Mellencamper)

      Springsteen.

      Oh, and... Speeching of "Dear Bob," . . .

      Dylan.

      Oh, and, naturally, he (Mr. "Wildwood Weed" aka "Another Puff") has NO aversion to the SAME type of vocals, IF they are being "toasted" by a JA. act such as Shaggy, et al.

      Go figger.

      (...Sets off to make a "mix tape" of GALS who shred their vocal chords...)

      Ideas?

      Tina Teener? Erm, I mean Mrs. Ikey T.

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  9. Cordelia's WristwatchJanuary 21, 2021 at 10:54 AM

    Always mixed up Tourist with OK Computer because their covers are so similar.

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  10. MrDaveJanuary 24, 2021 at 9:22 PM

    This one sounds to genuine and genteel to make a snarky comment about so I won't (or wait, did I?). Anyway, thanks!

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