Friday, February 26, 2010

Claire Lepage pt. II



While my last post on Claire Lepage focused on her more obscure hard rock material with the band Compagnie, I decided I would do a quicky post featuring material from the tail end of her Ye Ye girl solo career, specifically the track "La Souris Et La Guitare" from 1967.

Sadly, since I do not have this on 45, but on a "Disques D'or" LP, I do not know who produced it. My gut says it was Michel Pagliaro, as it is heavy on the guitar side of things. The tune itself is a delicate, mournful sort of melody in waltz time. I am not sure how to describe it genre-wise; maybe it borders on that "baroque pop" thing people seem to like so much nowadays... You could sort of see it as being a Kinks song circa "Something Else." Anyways, the guitar (as benefiting the title) is quite gnarley, and for a straight pop song from 1967, it's practically Sonny Sharrock... really... If it is NOT Pag strangling those strings, I would like to know the identity of this mystery man...



La Souris Et La Guitare- Claire Lepage

3 Comments:

Blogger Sébastien Desrosiers said...

Wow! Acid-soaked solo! Thanks!

Pag would be a good bet since Lepage was also on Denis Pantis (producer) stable for this LP if I'm not mistaken. Robert Goulet was also a well know session guitarist at the time, but I don't recall him sounding this gnarly.

March 24, 2010 at 5:11:00 PM PDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thanks this is in-croy-able.the guitar is great but i have no idea who could be responsable.

keep it up.
fx

January 12, 2011 at 2:56:00 PM PST  
Blogger petergunn said...

cheers, thank you!

January 16, 2011 at 4:13:00 AM PST  

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