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FR:Filles Sourires

Our favourite Texan Ken made a guestpost for Oh Canada-month about Jorane:

What do you get when you combine the vision of a poet with skills of a classically trained cellist? Allow me the pleasure to introduce you to Jorane Peltier (known simply as 'Jorane') - a thirty-something singer/songwriter/cellist from Quebec.

Comparisons are largely useless, but just to give a point of reference - how about Kate Bush meets Tori Amos...or maybe equal parts Portishead, Madeleine Peyroux, and Camille. Well, regardless of the comparisons you want make, Jorane's music is wonderfully evocative, compelling, lush, exotic, beautiful, experimental, and just plain lovely.

Categorizing her music is not an easy task - Jorane has forged a distinctive sound all her own -- not quite ambient, not quite folk, and not really classical, either. Through the use of her haunting, pixie-like voice and the bewitching style of her cello work, she weaves a sonic dreamscape that will leave you mesmerized and captivated.

Haunting...Bewitching...Mesmerizing...Captivating

Truly, this is the stuff of obsession.

Jorane - Elmita

FR ALBUM Vent Fou
3 octobre 2000
Label: Decca


Elmita - Jorane
Marches de guerre
Et cris de ralliement
Je vous entends
Qui a voulu laisser
Un enfant crier :
"Déjà deux morts
viens voir"

Décharge de rage et de misère
Sur la terre
Aux mille sanglots
Je suis née sur une terre
Aux mille sanglots

Tu vis, tu attends
Elmita oh Bella Bella
Ton nom plus doux que la perle
Coulent les flots et leurs mystères

Qui a voulu laisser mon enfnat
Porter le poids du temps d'avant
Du temps d'avant
Qui a laissé?
Oh Elmita
Kimbé pas lagé


Jorane - Vers à Soi
30 octobre 2007
Label: Tacca Canada