best of 2020

Welcome back to my blog for yet another year, and thank you for continuing to drop by :). For my first post of the ...

a curse on you

A Curse On You – Mixcloud Hello all! Been absent from the blog for much longer than intended, I'm sorry to say. But ...

2017: further explorations

Sooo... this is a slightly insanely long playlist , especially coming off the back of five hours of listening in my ...

2017: a musical odyssey (part one)

8tracks tips  |  Spotify version | View image Okay, so it's nearly March, which probably makes ...

noël à deux

I love a good depressing seasonal tune, and it doesn't much bleaker than one set in a desolate, ...

adieu, johnny

Photo: Mademoiselle Age Tendre , November 1969. Johnny Hallyday 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017 French pop has lost ...

love spells

Beware of my Halloween mix this year: it will magically seduce you, take you to heights of beauty and pleasure... ...

uta, part two: psychedelic poetry

In part one , I shared a video of Uta Taeger performing ' Hier, aujourd'hui, demain ', the A-side of her 1969 ...

françoise hardy's hit parade, 1966

While flipping through my collection of vintage French magazines the other day, I came across an interesting little ...