This edition of Peter Culshaw’s periodic global music radio show features guest special guest Anne Pigalle. A flâneuse and doyenne of the urban demi-monde, she came to our attention recording for ZTT Records in the 1980s and ran Soho nights at the Café de Paris, did Japanese commercials for Jean-Paul Gaultier, and a series of innovative albums including Madame Sex. She recently won the best art film award for the multi-media project Ecstase at the Portobello Film Festival 2019, the film based on her recent and probably best album of the same name. Her numerous activities, like a forthcoming art workshop in Hackney on November 11 can be found at her website. Not impressed by current French pop like Christina and the Queens or Daft Punk, she prefers to look back to when Paris was capital of the arts in the last century to look forward: this show features French music from chanson, to punk, prog, Parisian based African music to classical, jazz and swing.
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Playlist
Malcolm McLaren Paris is Jazz
Rachid Taha Rock El Casbah
Anne Pigalle Black Dahlia
Charles Trenet Boum
Noir Désir Le Vent Nous Portera
Manu Chao Mentira
Brigitte Bardot Tu Veux Ou Tu Veux Pas
Serge Gainsbourg Initials BB
Edith Piaf Danny
Henri Salvador Juanita Banana
Anne Pigalle Oh My Love
Grace Jones La Vie En Rose
Magma Hortz fur Dehn Stekehn West
Mano Negra Señor Matanza
Anne Pigalle Le Ballade du Late Night Soho
Django Reinhardt Minor Swing
Orchestre Polyrythmo de Cotonou Egni Miton Nin Mi Na Wa Gbin
Michel Le Grand Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Aristide Bruard Les Apaches
Victoria De Los Angeles - Chantes D’Auvergne
Berurier Noir Vivre Libre ou Mourir
Vanessa Paradis Joe Le Taxi