BOUM !

« â€¦ Jacques Brel tries rap in a Michel Legrand mood as performed by John Shuttleworth under the influence of Charles Mingus, Brillant. Â»

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” …A terrific live band that combine a real feel for the breath of the French chanson with an anarchic, stylish stage show that never lets the audience escape for a moment ..”

Biography

Boum! have been performing their unauthorized melange of French culture and English panache for almost three decades. Classic chansons from Brel to Gainsbourg to Trenet to Piaf are covered in irreverent, energetic, romantic, and loving style. Instrumental virtuosity abounds whilst fun-filled slap-stick moments form a large part of this band’s irrepressible charm.

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LE PORT D’AMSTERDAM
LA BICYCLETTE
LA LUNE
MEXICO
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Gallery

“The best thing to escape France since De Gaulle!”
Time Out
«  Band leader and guitariste Gilles Mordant, a man capable of making a few hearts go Boum! himself. »
Pirate jenny
« … Jacques Brel tries rap in a Michel Legrand mood as performed by John Shuttleworth under the influence of Charles Mingus, Brillant. »
Sunday Telegraph
“Nos gaillards sont aussi doués pour l’émouvant que pour le désopilant. Répertoire gouteux, arrangement inventifs, entrain contagieux, on dit « bis » à Boum!”
Télérama
” I play music from around the world putting the latest releases side by side with the best music from the past fifty years. Every now and then I run across an artist or group which embodies the spirit of what I’m trying to achieive and one of the best I have heard this year has been Boum!
Charlie Gillett – BBC GLR
” …A terrific live band that combine a real feel for the breath of the French chanson with an anarchic, stylish stage show that never lets the audience escape for a moment ..”
David Jones – Serious
” A force d’entendre dire que la chanson française ne peut passer les frontières, on avait fini par le croire!!! Et puis…rencontre avec BOUM! et les certitudes s’effondrent, même le public anglo-saxon peut goûter nos refrains…. “
Alain Poulange – France Inter
” Quelle joie de rencontrer trois artistes avec tant de joie de vivre… J’ai souvent l’impression en les écoutant qu’il n y a jamais eu d’autres orchestrations, d’autres interprétations “
Mischa Aznavour

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