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Nouvelle Vague is a French cover band led by musicians Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin.Their name means "new wave" in French, and refers simultaneously to the French New Wave cinema movement of the 1960s, to the new wave music movement of the 1970s and 1980s, which provides many of the songs that the band covers, and to bossa nova (Portuguese for "new wave"), a musical style that the band ...
Nouvelle Vague is the debut studio album by the French band Nouvelle Vague.It was first released on 9 August 2004 on Peacefrog Records.. The album consists entirely of easy listening and bossa nova versions of songs that were written and recorded during the post-punk/new wave era.
3 (also known as NV3) is the third studio album by the French band Nouvelle Vague. It was released 16 June 2009 on Peacefrog Records. As with their previous releases, the album consists entirely of cover versions of post-punk and new wave songs from the 1970s and 1980s. Four of the tracks are performed as duets, featuring the song's original ...
Acoustic is a live album by the French covers band Nouvelle Vague, recorded at a concert at the Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita in Barreiro, Portugal.All songs are acoustic versions of songs from the band's studio albums Nouvelle Vague, Bande à Part and 3, except for "Sweet Dreams" and "Relax" which do not appear on any of those albums.
He is best known as the founder, with Olivier Libaux, of the project Nouvelle Vague, a cover band that covers new wave songs in a bossa nova style. Collin also released a side-project album in 2008 under his own name, titled Hollywood, mon amour, consisting of covers, on the Nouvelle Vague formula, of songs from 1980s film soundtracks. [1]
Couleurs sur Paris is the fourth album by the French covers band Nouvelle Vague, released 16 November 2010. [1] The album is the group's first to be sung mostly in French, consisting largely of covers of French new wave and post-punk songs from the 1970s and 1980s. [2] The album attracted mixed reviews in the French-speaking press. [3] [4] [2]
The songs were sung by young female singers most of whom did not know the original versions. [9] [10] Their first album, entitled Nouvelle Vague, released on the Peacefrog label sold 500,000 copies worldwide and gave them the opportunity to tour in many countries. [9] [10] [11] The audience of Nouvelle Vague comprises veterans and nostalgics of ...
She sings in both French and English, after years of covering English songs for Nouvelle Vague. [3] Her influences include The Pixies , Sonic Youth , PJ Harvey and Nick Drake . In April 2009, Pain released her first solo album entitled My Name featuring artists such as Julien Doré , Phoebe Killdeer and Thomas Dybdahl .