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BEC 5543162
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Catherine Ringer needs no introduction. She's the woman who created an inimitable, genre-defying personality who, along with her group Les Rita Mitsouko, had a huge effect on the French pop music scene in the '80s right through to the noughties. In May 2011, she released her first "proper" solo album, Ring N 'Roll (BEC 5772833). Ringer took the magic of Rita's roots but moved it towards something with a more music-hall leaning at its core. After a breath-taking dalliance in Plaza Francia alongside two founding members of Gotan Project, whereby she stepped into the shoes of a tango dancer, oozing elegance and sensuality, Catherine is now back with a second album, Chroniques Et Fantaisies. The larger-than-life record is a family saga played out over 12 musical sketches, from everyday nothings to life's biggest problems. Catherine goes from synth-y cosmic disco (like the opening track "Senior" with its comical lyrics), to disheveled rock ("Como Va"), a steamy slow number ("Intermittent Lover"), and melancholic blues ("Obstination"). The album will take you from laughter to melancholy (the sublime "Tristessa" is a tribute to Fred Chichin), and it'll make you dance and cry. Whether she's singing in French or in English, Ringer's whole range of skills are on display, alternating from playfulness, troubled, melancholic, sweet, and spicy, all with her added brazenness that everyone knows and loves so well. All that plus everything that makes Ringer so magical: her wonderful, defiant, chameleon-like approach set to an eclectic backdrop with a powerful voice that has touched everyone -- including the French pop music scene. It's something you wouldn't know how to do without. Three-sided double LP; Features a spiral design etched on the D side; Includes CD.
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RSD 2016 release -- late addition. For the first time ever, the cult live album by Catherine Ringer (former singer of Les Rita Mitsouko) recorded in Paris, La Cigale in 2008. Catherine performed the Rita Mitsouko classics. Double LP gatefold, numbered, features the CD, printed inner sleeves. (600 units worldwide run).
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BEC 5161227
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"Punk 103" is a song from the album Ring n'Roll (BEC 5772833), released in 2011. This track was written and composed by Catherine Ringer, set to music by herself, Mark Kerr, and RZA + Stone Mecca's musicians. The B-side of this vinyl is an exclusive acoustic live version recorded during a Jean-Paul Gaultier private show.
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Catherine Ringer is the former singer from the famous French band Les Rita Mitsouko, formed by Fred Chichin (her late husband) and herself. From the hit "Marcia Baila" in 1985 to their last album Variety in 2007, they have worked with the likes of Tony Visconti, Iggy Pop, Sparks, Jesse Johnson, William Orbit and Serj Tankian. In 2009, Catherine decided that it was time to compose and produce her first solo album on her own. In collaboration with Mark Kerr, Azzedine Djelil and Jean-Baptiste Brunhes in her own studio, she recorded different instruments, from piano to drums. She also reworked "Rendez-Vous," a track recorded in 1998 with Coba, the Japanese accordion-player and adapted the "Adagietto" from "Mahler." Housed in a gatefold sleeve, this collector's edition includes a vinyl-etching on side D and a CD of the entire album.
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