"Trauma" Teaser...
The absolutely fantastic Beatrice Martin, aka Coeur de pirate (look if you're after an objective post you're in the wrong place) returns with her eagerly awaited 3rd album, and her first in English, scheduled for release on January 14th.
The album, titled "Trauma" consists of 12 covers and is the soundtrack album for the Radio-Canada TV drama "Trauma", set within the trauma-unit of the fictional Saint-Arsène hospital.
Covering artists and songs as diverse as Kenny Rogers ("Lucille"), The Libertines ("Music when the lights go out"), The Rolling Stones ("Dead Flowers"), Bon Iver ("Flume") and Kate and Anna McGarrigle ("Heartbeats accelerating"), the album follows the trend of the soundtracks of the previous series - series 1 to 3 being provided by Francophone artists (Ariane Moffatt and Pascale Picard) singing English-language covers, while for series 4 Martha Wainwright provided a cover album of French songs.
As a teaser, Beatrice's interpretation of Amy Winehouse's "You know I'm no good" can be streamed from her Bandcamp website. It's a brave move to post a cover of a classic song by arguably one of most iconic (and much-missed) English singer-songwriters of the Noughties, but in listening to Coeur de pirate's re-interpretation ("cover" really doesn't do it justice), you can hear what an inspired choice this actually was.
Whereas the original was a distinctly jazzy, R&B influenced melody (over a hop-hop beat) with Winehouse's vocals filled with a mixture of both anger and self-pity in equal measure (it really is an excellent song); Beatrice Martin turns it into a reflective, forlorn - utterly heart-breakingly sad - lament. You can almost picture a near-deserted bar, the pianist alone at a piano... a half-empty bottle of Scotch propped on the rim...
A beautiful song, given the sympathetic treatment it deserves...
Covering artists and songs as diverse as Kenny Rogers ("Lucille"), The Libertines ("Music when the lights go out"), The Rolling Stones ("Dead Flowers"), Bon Iver ("Flume") and Kate and Anna McGarrigle ("Heartbeats accelerating"), the album follows the trend of the soundtracks of the previous series - series 1 to 3 being provided by Francophone artists (Ariane Moffatt and Pascale Picard) singing English-language covers, while for series 4 Martha Wainwright provided a cover album of French songs.
As a teaser, Beatrice's interpretation of Amy Winehouse's "You know I'm no good" can be streamed from her Bandcamp website. It's a brave move to post a cover of a classic song by arguably one of most iconic (and much-missed) English singer-songwriters of the Noughties, but in listening to Coeur de pirate's re-interpretation ("cover" really doesn't do it justice), you can hear what an inspired choice this actually was.
Whereas the original was a distinctly jazzy, R&B influenced melody (over a hop-hop beat) with Winehouse's vocals filled with a mixture of both anger and self-pity in equal measure (it really is an excellent song); Beatrice Martin turns it into a reflective, forlorn - utterly heart-breakingly sad - lament. You can almost picture a near-deserted bar, the pianist alone at a piano... a half-empty bottle of Scotch propped on the rim...
A beautiful song, given the sympathetic treatment it deserves...
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