La Vache Qui Pleure [Import]

La Vache Qui Pleure [Import]

Track Listings

1. Petite Annonce Amoureuse

2. Ah Tournesol

3. Bambocheur

4. Hurle le Vent

5. Vache Qui Pleure

6. Rose Blanche

7. Tant le Monde

8. Ce Matin

9. Dans le Silence

10. Petites Boîtes (Little Boxes)

11. Sunflower (Version Anglaise de Ah Tournesol)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The great Kate and Anna McGarrigle offer up their 2003 French album La Vache Qui Pleure. A highly anticipated event for those who love the elegant folk music of these talented, vocally gifted and internationally renowned artists. The McGarrigle sisters have worked with Emmylou Harris, Nick Cave, Lou Reed and many others. Kate McGarrigle is the former wife of Loudon Wainwright, and the mother of singers Rufus and Martha Wainwright. 11 tracks packaged in a gatefold paper sleeve. 2003.

La Vache Qui Pleure,Kate & Anna McGarrigle,Tribu Label,Contemporary Folk,Folk,Folk & Traditional,Pop,Singer/Songwriter

Average customer rating:

Kinda blurry

Better and Better Over and Over

Buy Canadian and Save . . .

I have dreamed in French.

Timeless beauty

La Vache Qui Pleure
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Manufacturer: La Tribu Canada
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
General | Folk | Styles | Music
Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music
Folk | Imports | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B0000X96U2
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

Petite Annonce Amoureuse
Ah Tournesol
Bambocheur
Hurle le Vent
Vache Qui Pleure
Rose Blanche
Tant le Monde
Ce Matin
Dans le Silence
Petites Bos (Little Boxes)
Sunflower (Version Anglaise de Ah Tournesol)

Album Description

The great Kate and Anna McGarrigle offer up their 2003 French album La Vache Qui Pleure. A highly anticipated event for those who love the elegant folk music of these talented, vocally gifted and internationally renowned artists. The McGarrigle sisters have worked with Emmylou Harris, Nick Cave, Lou Reed and many others. Kate McGarrigle is the former wife of Loudon Wainwright, and the mother of singers Rufus and Martha Wainwright. 11 tracks packaged in a gatefold paper sleeve. 2003.

Album Details

The Second Full Length French Language Album from the Legendary Sisters of Quebequois Folk. Their Elegant Voices Are Loved by Millions and They Are Favoured by the Likes of Emmylou Harris, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Linda Ronstadt and Others who have Utilized their Talents. (Kate also Happens to Be the Ex-wife of Loudon Wainwright Iii and Mother of Martha and Rufus Wainwright).

Customer Reviews:

Kinda blurry.......2006-11-13

This could be regarded as the follow up to "The McGarrigle Hour" (their last one, 1998), or "Matapedia" (their last studio album, 1996) or "The French Record" (their last one which was all in French, 1992). Whatever, a new one by les McGarrigles is toujours a reason for bunting and the release of doves. Kate and Anna are chanteuses, musiciennes et auteures-compositeures de réputation internationale, se sont mérité les éloges de la critique et du grand public partout où elles ont passé, que ce soit en Amérique du Nord, en Europe ou en Extrême Orient. Okay, that's enough of that.
We have grown up together, them and me. Never glamour-pusses, even in 1976 when their essential debut was issued (don't have it? stop reading this and buy immediately!), K & A are now grey-haired and grandmotherly. The back cover photo is so blurred and they look so glum it looks like the one the kidnappers released to prove they're still alive. C'mon K & A, you're grey, I'm grey, it's okay! Their voices are similarly now being recorded kinda blurry too, which is to say that only rarely does an individual voice step forward, on this album it's practically all multilayered harmony - no bad thing, but a trifle samey.
Since their first two albums, which were masterpieces, all McGarrigle albums have been patchy. The good ones had some really bad stuff and the bad ones had a couple of gems. "La Vache Qui Pleure" is, even after many listens, hard to place. The accordions, violins and acoustical guitars and the drenching female harmony are all in place, but nothing has really grabbed me - or should I say only the two bad ones have, a French version of "Little Boxes" and a French AND an English version of "Ah! Sunflower" which curiously isn't credited to William Blake. (Blake fans should refer instead to Van Morrison's setting of Blake in "Let the Slave"). Perhaps this album suffers from the compositional uncertainties of "Matapedia" (some of whose songs seemed deeply inconsequential, or I was missing points all over the place) but - well, I dunno, it's in French. I love the McGarrigles, but only three stars this time.

Better and Better Over and Over.......2005-08-17

How exciting it was to discover a new record by Kate and Anna. I play this cd over and over again in my car, and especially the first song. The instruments begin one at a time, eventually creating a multilayered richness. Having studied Germanic languages, my French is limited. Okay, so I bought a new French dictionary and figured out the first song. This leads me to wonder why the inner sleeve doesn't have English translations. We can't all be bilingual, now, can we, n'est-pas?? (Sunflowers does have an Anglo version at the end, though).
Also, I really don't like the interruption to all the great music with that horrible poem recited by what's-his-name. I just skip it and return to the blissful voices of our favorite sisters. Nevertheless, this is still a five star cd.

Buy Canadian and Save . . ........2004-05-17

Like Tom and Gabriel, I have been a fan for a long time, since seeing them appear on "Saturday Night Live" c.1975 and wondering who they were and if they had recordings out, etc. A few years ago they appeared in San Francisco and my then-girlfriend-now-wife and I still weep and sigh over that wonderful evening; Kate McGarrigle had washed her hair prior to the concert; these are the things you learn from a live performance. "La Vache Qui Pleure" is, spectacularly and wonderfully, "more of the same" which means you need to buy a copy for youself and a few dozen to pass out as gifts. But $30.00 for a single CD is musical blackmail, especially since, as Mr. Good suggests, it would cost less if ordered from Amazon.ca (Canada, not California). It is: there, it sells for $16.99 Canadian dollars. In American terms, that's about $12.25. Amazon.ca will also toss in the McGarrigles first "French" album - "Entre la Jeunesse et la Tendresse" - and the two CDs will only cost the US equivalent of $25.20. Even after postage is added, this is the route I'm going.

I have dreamed in French........2004-03-10

"Doctor," I said, "I don't understand my dreams." "Why do you believe that is?" he said. "Because," I said, "I have begun dreaming in French." "Oh?" he said. "Yes," I said, "and I don't understand French."

Timeless beauty.......2004-01-21

The long anticipated lifesign from the McGarrigle sisters is a winner from start to end. This is pure quality! Their angellike vocies blend perfectly, and the songs are as timeless as the ones on their debut masterpiece "Kate & Anna McGarrigle" in the seventies. The music is still best described as modern folkmusic, with a twist of country and americana. Philippe Tartieff is co-composer as ususal, a perfect partner to the McGarrigle sisters unique voices.
This time they sing in french except for on one tune. Lyrics are included so if you don't speak french fluently (I don't) you can do some homework. It's worth the effort! I hope the next McGarrigle-album wont take long. And that their homepage will be finished - it's been standing still for ages!

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