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Les Revenants: how Mick Harvey brought Serge Gainsbourg back from the dead
It was a mixtape made by a Frenchman and handed to Mick Harvey in reunified Berlin that first alerted him to the oeuvre of Serge Gainsbourg. Like the rest of us, he’d heard ‘Je T’aime (Moi Non Plus)’,...
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Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier’s “lost” film score discovered in a...
A holy grail of the Gainsbourg-Vannier catalogue has surfaced after 45 years. Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier’s music for the 1969 film Les Chemins de Katmandou, thought to have been lost...
View ArticleSlim Twig covers Serge Gainsbourg’s ‘Cannibas’ for DFA, sells limited...
Slim Twig covers the classic instrumental in advance of his upcoming album on DFA. It’s a little tough to place when April 20 became ubiquitously known as the day humanity celebrates smoking weed, but...
View ArticleArthur Russell, Serge Gainsbourg and Japanese dub: June’s 10 must-hear...
Thanks to the graft of reissue labels and canny collectors, there’s an embarrassment of neglected, forgotten or misunderstood material being unearthed week by week. The volume of new-old music doesn’t...
View ArticleA beginner’s guide to Serge Gainsbourg
Few figures in popular music immersed themselves in as many genres as Serge Gainsbourg, and the French icon managed it with seemingly effortless guile. Aside from having earned status as one of the...
View ArticleFACT Focus 1: Serge Gainsbourg
FACT Focus is a brand new mix series. Regular FACT readers may have noticed that occasionally, to accompany a large feature or list, the author has provided a mix summarizing the article in...
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Serge Gainsbourg’s massive Intégrale box set reissued
It’s a career-spanning retrospective of the French icon’s work. Serge Gainsbourg’s 2011 box set Intégrale, first released in 2011, has been given a limited-edition reissue as Réédition Intégrale. The...
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