woensdag 21 september 2005

Sandrine

If you're a credits spotter, you might have noticed Sandrine Collard on the 1999 Profools-album by Flemish singer Daan, playing 'kitchen utensils'. In 2002 the pouting Belgian blonde (like Karin Clercq, an actress) made her first album, with help from Dan Lacksman of Telex (the Belgian Pet Shop Boys, so to speak). Je Communique is a very charming electropop-album, enlightened by the low, very breathy and very sexy voice of Sandrine. Francoiz Breut pops up in the last song, but mostly it's just Sandrine, a beat and a catchy melody, in songs about men, gossip and playing hide and seek in the dark. That last song (Chache-cache dans le noir) is posted here. Google told me dat Sandrine made a charity single for Amnesty recently, and if the Sandrine Collard on imdb is the same as pictured on the left, she also appeared in a movie in 2004. No news on a follow-up album, though.

Hear here.

1 opmerking:

  1. Sandrine Collard used to be the girlfriend of Daan. We can't blame him for that. They performed in 2000 or so at the Nachten in Antwerp, backed up by a café-crème skinned beauty and by Dan Lacksmans daughter. Dan Lacksman himself beated all the cool twisting his moog and smoking his cigarillo.

    Come to think of it, Lio's records were produced by ao. Marc Moulin, the other half of Telex. Wich makes Sandrine Collard the one and only descendant of Lio for your 21st century pleasure.

    The album "Je communique" features also a cover version of the song "Les Marionnettes", originally a 60ies hit by french singer Christophe, which is a huge favourite of my mum (she pretty much likes this whole album).

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