Nouvelle Vague

Having a name which means “new wave” in English and “bossa nova” in Portuguese, Nouvelle Vague’s moniker neatly sums in the group’s concept: remaking classic new wave singles having a Brazilian pop twist. Nouvelle Vague will be the brainchild of French makers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Ahead of this cooperation, Collin used the trip-hop clothing Ollano; constructed film soundtracks like the Kidnapper’s Theme, and released digital music which range from club-oriented materials for Paper Recordings to even more eclectic fare for Fcom and Result Records (beneath the aliases Avril and Volga Choose, respectively). Libaux used several French pop rings through the ’90s and started dealing with Collin in 1998. For Nouvelle Vague, Collin and Libaux recruited half-a-dozen French and Brazilian vocalists who have been unfamiliar with the initial versions of music like Pleasure Division’s “Like Will Rip Us Aside” and XTC’s “Producing Programs for Nigel” to make sure that their renditions acquired their own identification. Nouvelle Vague premiered in European countries in 2004 and received U.S. distribution in springtime 2005, which coincided with tour schedules in locales as far-flung as Shanghai, NY, LA, and Rio de Janeiro. Nouvelle Vague’s second record, A Bande a component, arrived in summer months 2006. The next year, the group returned with Arriving Home, a assortment of music from films provided the Nouvelle Vague treatment. New Influx, a assortment of addresses by new influx artists, also found its way to 2007. Post-punk and brand-new wave luminaries such as for example Ian McCulloch, Terry Hall, Barry Adamson, and Martin Gore added vocals to NV3, that was originally released in 2008 and reissued within the U.S. the next calendar year. For 2010’s Couleurs sur Paris, the group reimagined French punk and post-punk from the ’70s and ’80s by using chanteuses including Camille and Vanessa Paradis. The 2011 compilation The Performers gathered non-Nouvelle Vague monitors with the project’s vocal collaborators. Acoustic, released the next year, collected the highlights in the group’s unplugged concerts. After going for a break for a couple years — where Collin co-wrote and created Ya Nass, the state debut record from Lebanese musician Yasmine Hamdan — Nouvelle Vague came back in 2016 with I POSSIBLY COULD End up being Happy, which highlighted original music compiled by Libaux and Collin alongside the anticipated new wave addresses.