Tordue (La)
Tordue (La)
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About Tordue (La)
"There's something new and incredible happening under the melancholy sun of French chanson." This was how the bi-weekly bible of French rock 'Les Inrockuptibles' announced the arrival of La Tordue's third album 'Le Vent t'Invite' in April 2000. Singer and lyricist BenoÓt Morel met multi-instrumentalist Pierre Payan and formed La Tordue ('The Tortoise's don't ask why!) more than a decade ago in the bars of Belleville, a savory working class district of Paris where the great Edith Piaf spent her black and blue childhood in the 1920s. Morel was also a founder member of Les TÍtes Raides and luminary of the irreverent art and cartoon collective Chats PelÈs, who design the CD covers for both groups. With the addition of Pierre's mate Eric Philippon, La Tordue became a trio and started playing songs for a few francs and a 'ballon de rouge' in the watering holes of Belleville and beyond. Five years of graft were to elapse before they released their first album 'Les Choses de Rien' on their own Moby Dick label. After more than a thousand appearances, four acclaimed albums and a lifetime's compliment of hard knocks, La Tordue have evolved into true originals, with songs that reinvent and radicalise the lyrical approach of great French chansonniers like Jacques PrÈvert, George Brassens and Leo FerrÈ and marinades it in a potpourri of musette, ska, tango, reggae, gypsy and rock influences.
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