Actress Gainsbourg teams with Air on her 2nd album
Reuters, Aug 4, 2006 9:38 pm PDTTwo decades after releasing her first
album, French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is issuing a
follow-up.
That 1986 debut, "Charlotte Forever" (Philips), was written by Gainsbourg's late father, singer/songwriter/actor Serge Gainsbourg. But her return to music with "5:55" on Paris-based Because Music features a team of collaborators far removed from her father's 1960s-era chanson universe.
The album's music is written and played by Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel, better known as Virgin France electronica duo Air. Contributions from the other side of the English Channel include lyrics by former Pulp vocalist Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon of Parlophone act the Divine Comedy. Air and Gainsbourg herself also contribute lyrics. Nigel Godrich (Beck, Radiohead, Paul McCartney) produced the album, and Beck's father, Canadian composer David Campbell, did the string arrangements.
"5:55" will be released in France on August 28 and internationally September 4. Plans call for an early-2007 launch in the States.
Gainsbourg has appeared in more than 30 films, including director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Academy Award-nominated "21 Grams" (2003).
Reuters/Billboard
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