A new Charlotte Gainsbourg remix has been released, the track Anna (Moonlight Matters Remix) to features on a new EP which is scheduled to be released from today.
The original version of the track featured on last year's Stage Whisper (Live and Unreleased) album and the EP includes the original, as well as the Moonlight Matters version, and remixes by Tom Furse and Clock Opera.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is playing live dates across France in May, with dates in Brussels and Switzerland.
Another track from Charlotte Gainsbourg's Stage Whispers album is being promoted as a single, with the track Paradisco getting the attention this time.
The double album was released in December and came out in the UK this week. It collects a number of previously unreleased outtakes and a live collection from a recent performance.
Gainsbourg appeared towards the end of last week on TV in the UK, quite a rare feat for a French artist, discussing art and commerce in the light of the success of the film The Artist on BBC1's This Week current affairs show.
She's also confirmed that a new album, her fifth, can be expected towards the end of this year, with an October release anticipated. Whether Beck is at the controls of this one, as he was with her last full album IRM and this track remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, there's a remix competition for the track Paradisco open until February 6. The winner will have their remix issued on Because music. A number of the remixes that have been submitted already are available to listen to at the site http://play.beatport.com/contests/beck-gainsbourg-paradisco/ and the original parts of the track are available to download.
Although I mentioned it before it came out, and featured the track Terrible Angels when the video emerged, I thought the release of Charlotte Gainsbourg's Stage Whisper collection merited a more detailed mention.
The album is not entirely new material by any means, collecting live versions of tracks from her two most recent releases 5.55 and 2009's IRM.
The unreleased material continues the sound she developed with Beck, her collaborator on IRM, a cool and intelligent electro pop that has helped establish her as a credible artist in her own right rather than a singer in the shadow of her father's massive reputation.
The live material on disc two focuses on her two recent albums, and a cover of Dylan's Just Like a Woman, a track she recorded with Calexico for the 2007 I'm Not There biopic.
While interesting to hear the live versions, I can't help feel that with just a bit more the studio material could have stood up in its own right as a full new release. Eight tracks may have been not enough, but the quality here is superb and despite being described as 'out takes' they really are as good as anything she's ever released, as Terrible Angels, Paradisco or Memoir testify.
Instead of one double album that's an add-on to her discography, I can't help but think that there really should be two separate albums here, both of which would have their own merits.
Still, a fine release, and one that certainly keeps us waiting for a new album proper from Ms Gainsbourg.
