SAINT LOUIS
Some kind of a mystic Dandy? A romantic poet recently landed on the shores of the new world hailing from old Europe? Mostly dressed in a suit jacket and a hat, elegant yet simple, bordering on the austere. A curious and naïve gaze at this new world full of promise and prohibitions gives him a deep-seated desire to make his dreams come true.
Like a character out of a novel, he knows that there are souls to reach out to with poetry, music and art. So Louis has to go on the road, with his woody station wagon or hitchhike if need be, with his Sigma Guitar, an old tape recorder and a backpack. What's more important than sharing love and beauty?
TAINTED LOVE
Artist: Saint Louis
Title : Tainted Love
Album : FolkMe ep
Nov 4 Spotify / Nov 11 YouTube
Extract from his first ep entitled FolkMe, Saint Louis releases "Tainted Love". This
final single thus closes a mini series of video-covers where the multi-instrumentalist has fun traveling through the ages, with arrangements sometimes flowery, sometimes raw, depending on what he has his sights on.
After stripping Hozier's planetary Take Me To Church, and repainting Birkin's Ex-fan of
the Sixties in the style of Melody Nelson, Saint Louis re-arranges an ultra-famous piece of soul, sung right from the start by Gloria Jones in 1965.
Covered multiple times, notably by Soft Cell and Marilyn Manson, the french artist brings this mythical classic to the great American spaces with a kind of Pop-Americana /Crazy Indie style, between a phlegmatic Beck and a ballad by Pink Floyd on Meddle(71).
The title gains chic and chill nostalgia while emphasizing the wry feeling embodied in the lyrics. A version that would thus become a “have to be!“ (?)
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