C’est merveilleux... Aural pleasurama for Modern Travellers !
Amazing and inventive, the 23 cuts on this album are a tour-de-force through beats, haunting songs and inspired instrumental moments. Listen a take a trip from Portofino to Capri, from Saint Tropez to New York! Including tracks by: Burt Bacharach, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stelvio Cipriani, Ennio Morricone, Alan Hawkshaw...Aretha Franklin, Astrud Gilberto, April March, Burt Bacharach, Bang on a can All-Stars, Charles Aznavour, Dorian Pimpernel, Fugu,Frank Sinatra,David Bowie,SIA,The Divine comedy, Morrissey, Electrelane, Architecture in Helsinki, Claudine Longet, Iggy pop, Bertrand Burgalat, Serge Gainsbourg, Antony and The Johnsons, François de Roubaix, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Balanço,Peppermoon, The Rakes, Belle and Sebastian, Antonio Vivaldi, Rei Harakami, Pizzicato Five, the Eggs, Armando Trovajoli, John Barry, Michael Nyman, Brigitte Bardot, Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni, Piero Umiliani, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Piano Magic, Henry Purcell, Nat King Cole, Alain Bashung, Sébastien Tellier, Georg Friedrich Haendel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Vincenzo Bellini, Brian Eno, Giacomo Puccini, Claude Debussy, Dione Warwick, Doris Day, Georges Delerue, Jay-Jay Johanson, Jacques Dutronc, Kings of Convenience, Claudio Monteverdi, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bjork, Mellow, Michel Polnareff, Mina, Milva, Luxophonic, Zero 7, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergio Mendes, The Doors, The Beatles, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Shirley Bassey, Dinah Washington, Sergei Prokofiev, Cavalier King, Gerardo Frisina, Doctor Abstract, Giuseppe Tartini,Philip Glass, Liza Ekdahl, Stan Getz, Nicolas Conte, Portishead, Ladytron, Archives, Joseph Arthur, Grandaddy, Suede, Phillipe Sarde, Fez Combo,The Kinks, The Zombies, Iva Bittova,Vashti Bunyan, Gustav Mahler and many many others!
François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Terrence Malick, Cohen Brother, David Lynch,Woody Allen,Terry Gilliam, Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry,Tim Burton,Kim Ki Duk, Ishii Katsuhito,Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa,Yasujir Ozu,Tsai Ming-Liang, Kitano,Stephen Daldry,Sophia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch,Wong Kar Wai,Shohei Imamura, Jacques Tati...
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Women authors
Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, George Sand, Simone de Beauvoir...
Philosophy
Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein...
Poetry
Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Louis Aragon, Valery Larbaud, William Butler Yeats...
Literature
Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, Yukio Mishima, Paul Morand, Anatole France, Stendhal, Stephane Zweig, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...and many more!
"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself" Mark Twain