theartsdesk Radio Show 25 - with bohemian chanteuse Anne Pigalle

This edition of Peter Culshaw’s periodic global music radio show features guest special guest Anne Pigalle. A flâneuse and doyenne of the urban demi-monde, she came to our attention recording for ZTT Records in the 1980s and ran Soho nights at the Café de Paris, did Japanese commercials for Jean-Paul Gaultier, and a series of innovative albums including Madame Sex. She recently won the best art film award for the multi-media project Ecstase at the Portobello Film Festival 2019, the film based on her recent and probably best album of the same name. Her numerous activities, like a forthcoming art workshop in Hackney on November 11 can be found at her website. Not impressed by current French pop like Christina and the Queens or Daft Punk, she prefers to look back to when Paris was capital of the arts in the last century to look forward: this show features French music from chanson, to punk, prog, Parisian based African music to classical, jazz and swing.  

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Playlist

Malcolm McLaren   Paris is Jazz

Rachid Taha    Rock El Casbah

Anne Pigalle    Black Dahlia

Charles Trenet    Boum

Noir Désir   Le Vent Nous Portera

Manu Chao    Mentira

Brigitte Bardot    Tu Veux Ou Tu Veux Pas

Serge Gainsbourg   Initials BB

Edith Piaf   Danny

Henri Salvador   Juanita Banana

Anne Pigalle   Oh My Love

Grace Jones  La Vie En Rose

Magma   Hortz fur Dehn Stekehn West

Mano Negra   Señor Matanza

Anne Pigalle    Le Ballade du Late Night Soho

Django Reinhardt  Minor Swing

Orchestre Polyrythmo de Cotonou    Egni  Miton Nin Mi Na Wa Gbin

Michel Le Grand    Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Aristide Bruard Les Apaches

Victoria De Los Angeles - Chantes D’Auvergne

Berurier Noir    Vivre Libre ou Mourir

Vanessa Paradis    Joe Le Taxi