· Raritiy! : including the only seven   songs ever recorded in German   language · 6 page digipak · digitally remastered · bi-lingual liner notes Style: Chanson Format: CD   :: Juliette Gréco - Abendlied 1. L'Embellie 2. Le Contre-Ecclesiaste (Rien n'est vanité) 3. La Chansons des vieux Amants 4. C'était un Train de Nuit 5. Un petit Poisson un petit Oiseau 6. Rue des Blanc-Manteaux 7. Il n'y plus d'après 8. La Vie s'évite 9. L'Enfant secret 10. Comme une Idée 11. Les Pingouins Bonus Tracks 12. Die Ameise ("La Fourmi") 13. Mein Kind, sing ("Mon Fils, chante") 14. Die Gammlerin ("La Rôdeuse") 15. Lösch die Lampe aus ("Deshabillez-moi") 16. Der tote Baum ("Sur l'Arbre mort") 17. Davor hab' ich Angst ("J'en tremble") 18. Abendlied ("Et le Pay s'endort") :: Information Choice of language:  Once upon a time - in the Swinging Sixties and the Sweet Seventies - French pop music, "la chanson", went far beyond La Grande Nation. It was exported to every TV channel, radio programme and juke box, both in the United Kingdom and in (West) Germany: Francoise Hardy sang "All Over The World" as well as "Frag den Abendwind", Charles Aznavour went to pole position with "She" / "Sie", and - yes indeed! - Juliette Gréco, the charismatic Grande Dame of Paris, sang in German, too. Romantic notions like "Abendlied" (Evening Song), an adaptation of "Et le Pays s'endort", psychologically twisted feelings like "Davor hab' ich Angst" (This causes anxiety with me), a version of "J'en tremble" and even a daring 'Zeitgeist' comment like "Die Gammlerin" (The Tramp), her German reading of "La Rôdeuse". She also presented something funny about hot-rod riding ants: "Die Ameise". So far, there was a catch to owning these precious historical recordings. Those seven 'Lieder', the only ones in that tongue La Gréco ever recorded, had to be hunted down on rare and precious vinyl, or else it can now be purchased as part of a 21-CD collection which was recently released in France. Meanwhile, CHOICE OF MUSIC is happy to announce that you can obstain from taking out an extra mortgage and simply buy the little treasure via our single CD album, ABENDLIED. We have complemented the German rarities by a collection of eleven French chansons which can impress with sophisticated arrangements. While in those days, French artists mostly chose between small ensembles led by an accordéon or piano and some big orchestral scores, Madame Gréco often managed to get the best of both worlds. Listen to the atmospherically loaded "C'était un Train de Nuit": The clever rhythmic pattern and the squeeze box may well see her through fantastically in a small club or bar situation, but getting the whole symphonic treatment on top is just awesome in its timeless impact. Juliette, forever young like her arrangements - is able to pull some humouristic fast ones, too, cases in point being "Un petit Poisson un petit Oiseau" and "Les Pingouins": short, sweet, full of joie de vivre and - in these cases, animalistic. If you've been thinking about digging into Juliette Gréco's archive, why not start here?