vintage tube #2 : françoise hardy

Lovely music by this lovely girl, her 60s stuff it's precious and fun. A great collection of songs that goes from more orchestal folky songs to more rockin pop songs. Her voice is specially incredible but the arrengements on her songs are also really beautiful. A kind of singin that have get lost in time. 

Here what allmusic.com has to say, not a bad description at all!

Immensely popular in her native France, the chanteuse first displayed her breathy, measured vocals in the early and mid-'60s. Her (mostly self-penned) recordings from that era draw from French pop traditions, lightweight '50s teen idol rock, girl groups, and sultry jazz and blues -- sometimes in the same song. The material is perhaps too unreservedly sentimental for some (in the French tradition), but the songs are invariably catchy and the production, arrangements, and near-operatic backup harmonies excellent, at times almost Spector-esque. Fans of Marianne Faithfull's mid-'60s work can find something of a French equivalent here, though Hardy's material was stronger and her delivery more confident. 

What it doesn't says is that her style was also amazing!

(videos at the end of the post)

Tenía ganas de poner un post sobre ella, mi cantante europea favorita de los 60, ¡y de lejos!. No tengo mucho tiempo para escribir pero sí para un par de pamplinas. Increíble voz, estilo 60s a tope y música divertida e hiper-agradable para estar de buen rollo en el caso de las rock and rolleras / poperas y de más emoción con nervios a flor de piel con las más folkies orquestales (para esas realmente a veces hay que tener ganas). En resumen una delicia que vuelvo a escuchar siempre una y otra vez, y que además también es super chulo para cotillear un rato por youtube video clips antiguos, tomas en eurovisión y recopilatorios con fotos.. ¡una chulada todo el material! Por cierto.. el marido de ella también un fuera de serie que tendrá sus posts correspondientes más adelante. ¡Mil besos!