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Paris n'existe pas is a daydream of swinging Paris when Serge & Jane cut a smoke wreathed swath through the City of Light.
The words and music come from Jérôme Didelot of French band Orwell with guest vocals by the high priestess of hush, Isobel Campbell, plus remixes by Jah Wobble (PiL), Martin Carr (The Boo Radleys), and Yann Arnaud. Also included is an alternate version featuring Japanese singer Sugar Me.
Released to the world through Europop 2000 and 80 Proof Records.
All Power to the Imagination!
credits
released June 3, 2022
She is cobblestoned just then, wandering through light and shadow. Ornate canyons rain-slicked and breeze swept, dirty-pretty, defaced resplendence. Her dream is our dream. This city, that rive, these evocations of faith and commerce, art and life. We come here to laugh and gawk and sip and sigh. We also come to escape and strive and languish and cry.
Reverie to fill the minds of those with nothing. And everything.
Paris is real.
Paris does not exist.
… The Cappuccino cousin
The first raindrop of Son Parapluie came from an American desert… So thank you Todd for having dreamt of this intercontinental project. Thousands of “mercis” to Isobel! Hearing her voice on those songs for the first time remains a memorable moment for me. Thank you Jonas Persson for the good work, the biscuits and your taste for "mirabelle", thank you Ben Cahen for the good work and the tea, thanks to my fellow collaborators of Orwell and to all the musicians who appear on those recordings. Thanks to Yann Arnaud and Chab for the Parisian’s “French Touch”. Merci Charles Berberian for that beautiful artwork. Thank you Pierre-Marie Dru for helping to make the umbrella wider. Arigato to my wonderful friend from Japan, Ayumi Teraoka aka Sugar Me. And what an honor to have two great names of British Music, Jah Wobble and Martin Carr, offering great remixes… So merci messieurs!
CRÉDITS
Paris n’existe pas
Drums: Régis Nesti
Rhodes piano, CP80: Alexandre Longo
Electric guitar: Thierry Bellia
Flute: Renaldo Greco
Cello: Sarah Tanguy
Violin: Mathilde Legée
Synth: Yann Arnaud
Bass, guitar, keys: Jérôme Didelot
Voice: Isobel Campbell
À l’assaut du ciel
Drums: Régis Nesti
Flute: Renaldo Greco
Harpsichord: Anne-Catherine Bucher
Cello: Sarah Tanguy
Violin: Mathilde Legée
Trumpet: Luc Lagier
Trombone: Alexandre Rabin
Bass, guitar, keys, backing vocals: Jérôme Didelot
Voice: Isobel Campbell
Je ne finis rien
Drums: Régis Nesti
Harpsichord: Anne-Catherine Bucher
Cello: Sarah Tanguy
Violin: Mathilde Legée
Trumpet: Luc Lagier
Trombone: Alexandre Rabin
Teacher’s voice: Isabelle Cronin
Voice, bass, guitar, piano, keys: Jérôme Didelot
Backing vocals: Isobel Campbell
Un thème
Drums: Régis Nesti
Cello: Sarah Tanguy
Violin: Mathilde Legée
Trumpet: Luc Lagier
Bass, piano, keys: Jérôme Didelot
Voice: Isobel Campbell
All songs by Jérôme Didelot
Isobel Campbell appears courtesy of Cooking Vinyl
Horns arrangement on À l’assaut du ciel by Alexandre Rabin
Trumpet solo on Un thème by Luc Lagier
Isobel Campbell vocals recording:
Jonas Persson at Berners Street Studio
Horns and strings recording:
Benjamin Cahen at Les Studios de l'Écluse
Drums recording:
Régis Nesti
Rhodes recording:
Alexandre Longo
Everything else recorded by Jérôme Didelot
Produced by Jérôme Didelot
Reveries by Todd Bisson
Mixed by Yann Arnaud
Mastered by Chab
Artwork by Charles Berberian
80proof Records / Europop2000
Published by Pigalle Production
Son Parapluie is an idea that became a band, sort of. It all begins with Jérôme Didelot of French band Orwell. The words and
music and production are his. Isobel Campbell is the featured vocalist and Sugar Me from Japan sings on one song. Remixes by Jah Wobble, Martin Carr and Yann Arnaud round out this record. The artwork is by noted French artist Charles Berberian....more
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