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L&O is an incredibly talented new group on the Paris music scene!
The singer Laure Slabiak is a beauty to be compared only with the greatest Hollywood glamour girls such as Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall and Marlene Dietrich. Her siren song is sung with such natural musical elegance and ease that it simply takes your breath away. Here we have a new torch singer in all her glory! She is sure to become an iconic figure on the international music scene--this is a truly great voice.
Listen out for “El secreto de los amantes”, the one song on the album : “C’est un Garçon”, written by the diva herself……… muy caliente!
The lyrics for the rest of the songs on the album are infinitely well penned by Angela Portella. The words flow forth telling stories of love, the loss of love and the human condition with such poetic ease that the listener is drawn in to the beauty of the language, language that is playful, lilting and filled with rhythmic sophistication. Two favorites are “Les Lilas” and the super uplifting “Le Sourire Heureux”. Bravo!
Olivier Slabiak, the composer of the songs and accomplished multi-instrumentalist--violin, guitar, ukulele--sings with all the depth and warmth of the smoothest of crooners. Hopefully we will hear more of this beautiful voice on tour and on future albums.
The other three members: Michel Schick on clarinette, saxophone, flute, ukulele; Stephen Harrison on double-bass; and Jean Baptiste Maillet on drums and percussion, seem to have stepped right off a film set depicting a sizzling hot 1950’s nightclub! They create a musical intensity that will keep you dancing into the wee hours of the night! Watch out boys and girls, this is a hot combo!
So, WAKE UP PARIS, and get yourself down to LA COMEDIA Impasse Lamier 75011 Paris, between the 10th of April and the 4th of July 2008!
L&O has just begun a journey that promises to be a true musical extravaganza!
Chanson Française...well yes, but also Latin Beats, Wacky Klezmer, Fizzy Pop, Lyric Fantastic, Slap Happy Groove.
Musical Elegance, Musical Evidence, Musical Intelligence!
’Nuf said.
C. Batman : 8th of April 2008
- A comment from an enthusiastic spectator (not published)
Discography
C'est un garcon 2008
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Bio
L&O, it is a duet, comprised of a singer, Laure, coming from the world of opera & composer, Olivier, violinist and co-founder Roma/Yiddish group Les Yeux Noirs.
Escaping for the moment from his world music and far from klezmer melodies, Olivier composed the wavy music, intimate and chiseled to size.
Laure sings in French, Spanish & English, songs about the threads of the life
For their 1st album, get involved stories, memories, children, lovers, disappointments and pleasures, unusual meetings, to smile or not.
The arrangements were created by Joseph Racaille's lively imagination. Instruments used were guitars, tuba, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, string quartet, glockenspiel, mandolin, banjo, bass and piano for a vibrating and sweet, exotic orchestral sense.
On stage, Laure Slabiak sings, Olivier Slabiak plays violin and guitar, Michel Schick plays clarinet, melodica, flute, ukulele, & saxophone, Stephen Harrison is on the double bass and Jean-Baptiste Maillet is on drums.
Their 1st album (Cest un garçon Anticraft) was released in France the 24th of march 2008. They began their tour in France in spring of 2008.
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