Guitars on "Marie-France et les Fantômes : Kiss".
Released on Freaksville Record, 2011.

• Marie-France et les Fantômes : Kiss.

Acheter le CD (10 titres) sur le site de Freaksville Record.
Buy the CD (10 titles) on Freaksville Record website.

01. Dieu pardonne.
02. Le détecteur de mensonges
03. Trop de boucan.
04. Le bon, la brute et le truand.
05. Un garçon qui pleure (en duo avec Chrissie Hynde).
06. C'est un ordre.
07. Yallo kibou.
08. Petite catin.
09. Sorcière.
10. Elle ou moi.

Marie France : voix.
Les Fantômes *, groupe d'intervention musicale.
Avec l'aimable participation de Chrissie Hynde sur "Un garçon qui pleure".

Musique : Phantom (sauf "Un garçon qui pleure" : François Bernheim).
Arrangements : Phantom.
Paroles : Jacques Duvall.

Réalisé par Benjamin Schoos alias Miam Monster Miam pour 36 Cowboys.
Enregistré et mixé par Maxime Wathieu au studio X.Y.Zèbres, Huy.
Prises voix par Antoine Litt au studio 5, Liège.
Prises voix par Jason Glover au studio Vynilzor London.
Masterisé par Ivan Julian à N.Y. Hed, NYC.

* Les Fantômes :
Marc Wathieu : guitare.
Jampur Fraize : guitare.
Benjamin Schoos : guitare, Fender Rhodes, synthétiseurs, bruitage.
Pascal Scalp : basse.
Calogero Marotta : basse.
Jérôme Danthinne : batterie, percussion.
Sabino Orsini : Fender Rhodes, choeurs.
Chris Cerri : piano, orgue Hammond, Mellotron, Wurlitzer.
Adil, Jay, Ron et Jacques Duvall : choeurs sur "Le bon, la brute et le truand".
Marc Bouille : choeurs.

Merci à Clément Boulland, Solange Fechner, Ulule et tous les souscripteurs.
Design : www.scalp.be
Photo : www.pascalschyns.com
Baiser bâclé : Marie France.

Release date :
digital : december 19, 2011.
CD : february, 2011.

Label : Freaksville Record.
Distribution : COD&S.

Catalogue number : FRVR37

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What Edie Sedgwick and Nico were to Andy Warhol's Factory, Marie France was to Le Palace in Paris. From the early seventies in Saint-Germain-des-Prés she was a muse, fascinating a lot of artists, from Marguerite Duras to Serge Gainsbourg, underground french innovators such as Pierre Clementi, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Pierre et Gilles, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and international stars passing through like Nico herself or Chrissie Hynde.

Her impersonation of Marilyn Monroe at Jean-Marie Rivière's Alcazar gave her a first taste of fame. She then made some appearances on film, André Téchiné's "Barocco" remaining her most treasured memory. Music always was the love of her life. She recorded an album with rock band Bijou (Gainsbourg backing band in the late seventies) and another one with former Taxi Girl members Daniel Darc and Mirwais (yes, Madonna's collaborator). She also was invited to perform a duet with Marc Almond, who later wrote a couple of songs for her.

Her first effort was a punk single in 1977 on Romantik Records, "Déréglée". And thirty years later, here she reunites with the man who wrote her first song, Belgian songwriter Jacques Duvall, known for his work with Jane Birkin, Etienne Daho and others including Sparks and The Runaways.

The man in charge with this project is another mad man from Belgium, Miam Monster Miam. He's providing some minimalist rock'n'roll, phantom blues and existential country music. Marie France rants over these tracks like a parisian Ronnie Spector, with carefree sex appeal and yet an almost painful sense of tragedy.

Marie France is an ambiguous character, her life is a spicy comedy and a mysterious melodrama at the same time. It all shows in this record mixed and mastered by the legendary Kramer (ex-bassist of Butthole Surfers, Bongwater, Half Japanese, Galaxy 500's producer...)

Porté par un rock garage tarantinesque, le groupe Phantom mené par Jacques Duvall et Benjamin Schoos alias Miam Monster Miam offre à Marie-France un voyage dans des contrées désertiques et sauvages. L'icône parisienne des 70's surprend une fois encore en s'appropriant à merveille les ambiances country blues et rock'n'roll minimales du duo. Pour preuve, l'album sobrement intitulé "Phantom feat. Marie France" chaudement sorti sur le label Freaksville Records.

Phantom featuring Marie-France : more news on my blog.
Phantom featuring Marie-France on Discogs.
Freaksville Record.
Phantom featuring Marie-France : my pictures on Flickr.
Marie-France (Wikipedia).