Alfa Rococo - Météore

I have not posted in a while. Let's begin to make up for that with something fun from Alfa Rococo. I have no idea what this means, and at this hour (what am I doing up?) I don't care. It looks and sounds like good clean fun from a duo in the Montreal area. Very Quebec pop. Météore.

Ingrid St-Pierre - Desjardins

 

As it says on Ingrid St-Pierre's website, this video (and this song) is IRRÉSISTIBLE! A clever, sweet, and relaxing new tune from the album "Ma petite mam’zelle de chemin," which came out in May. The song that really strikes me is "Desjardins" -- minimalist yet there's so much there.

Here's a bit from her official bio (love the humor) and a Gtranslation, followed by a link to a song that might just put you at ease.

Enfant illégitime des Desjardins, Fersen, Hardy et autres monuments de la chanson française et québécoise, Ingrid grandit au Bas-St-Laurent en s'imprégnant de leur poésie. Elle développe très jeune une passion pour les mots, qu'elle tricote petit à petit, une maille à la fois, sur les lignes bleutées des cahiers Canada initialement destinées aux matières académiques. Elle couchera ses textes sur le noir et blanc du piano familial et y composera ses toutes premières chansons, vers l'âge de 17 ans. À maintenant 26 ans, armée de son seul piano ou entourée d'un quatuor à cordes, Ingrid captive son auditoire et marche sur les pas de ses idoles, affichant un style bien à elle, maniant une poésie imagée, tantôt subtilement humoristique, tantôt simple et épurée.

Illegitimate child of Desjardins, Fersen, Hardy and other monuments of the French song and Quebec, Ingrid grew up in Lower St Lawrence immersing herself in poetry. She developed very young a passion for words, knitting them little by little, one stitch at a time, on the lines of blue books Canada originally intended to be used for academic subjects. She set her texts in black and white, using the piano to compose her first song at the age of 17. Now 26 years old, armed with her piano alone or surrounded by string quartet, Ingrid has captivated audiences and the footsteps of her idols, displaying a style all her own, wielding a pictorial poetry, sometimes subtly humorous, sometimes simple and purified.
http://www.ingridstpierre.com/