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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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]
Olivier Libaux (5 May 1964 – 29 September 2021 [1]) was a French record producer, songwriter, and guitarist.A founding member of the band Les Objets, he was also the founder of the musical projects Nouvelle Vague and Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age.
In 2008, Alea met Marc Collin, the founder of Nouvelle Vague. She opened for the group in Miami, and officially joined them as a lead singer in 2009. [2] She sings a cover of the Cocteau Twins song "Athol Brose" on Nouvelle Vague's 2016 album I Could Be Happy. [6] After 8 years of touring with the band, she left the group in 2017. [7]
The reviews for the band's self-titled first album, released in 2004, had been generally positive.In contrast, Bande à Part received more mixed reviews.AllMusic drew an explicit comparison between the two albums, writing, "It was something of a small miracle that the first Nouvelle Vague album managed to avoid the seemingly inherent kitsch of covering new wave classics as slinky bossa nova.
In early 2002, Camille signed a recording contract with Virgin Records.She released her first studio album Le Sac des Filles.In 2004, she began working with Marc Collin and his band Nouvelle Vague, which incorporates new wave and bossa nova music. [1]