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Sébastien Tellier is an exceptional, highly personal & intimate artist echoing such other one-offs as Robert Wyatt, Syd Barrett or Serge Gainsbourg.
His first LP, L’incroyable vérité (The Incredible Truth) (2001), was a fantastical pop album, which careered from lo-fi electronica to bizarre cabaret tunes. Its sleeve featured Tellier in full evening dress on the front, while the back of jacket had a shot of him cavorting in some playboy’s pool. He instructed listeners to only listen to the album by candle light and won a tight band of adherents, who fell for his lush, humorous compositions. Standout track, Fantino, was chosen by Sofia Coppola for the Lost in Translation soundtrack.
Sebastien followed this with Politics (2005), which, like his third studio album Sexuality (2008), took single term as both its title and theme. The disc dealt with ways of power and governance, in as much as it discussed the relative merits of genocide versus ketchup, as well as the tennis-playing opportunities presented by the Berlin Wall. Politics’ most prominent song was La Ritournelle, a sublime, string-led tune, which featured Nigerian drummer, Tony Allen, some eighteen months before he joined Damon Albarn for The Good the bad and the queen. La Ritournelle’s international success transformed Sebastien’s life professionally, sexually and domestically. “Many things have changed since La Ritournelle,” he says with a laugh, “now I’m living in a new apartment, I have a new girlfriend and a really beautiful sofa.”
His first LP, L’incroyable vérité (The Incredible Truth) (2001), was a fantastical pop album, which careered from lo-fi electronica to bizarre cabaret tunes. Its sleeve featured Tellier in full evening dress on the front, while the back of jacket had a shot of him cavorting in some playboy’s pool. He instructed listeners to only listen to the album by candle light and won a tight band of adherents, who fell for his lush, humorous compositions. Standout track, Fantino, was chosen by Sofia Coppola for the Lost in Translation soundtrack.
Sebastien followed this with Politics (2005), which, like his third studio album Sexuality (2008), took single term as both its title and theme. The disc dealt with ways of power and governance, in as much as it discussed the relative merits of genocide versus ketchup, as well as the tennis-playing opportunities presented by the Berlin Wall. Politics’ most prominent song was La Ritournelle, a sublime, string-led tune, which featured Nigerian drummer, Tony Allen, some eighteen months before he joined Damon Albarn for The Good the bad and the queen. La Ritournelle’s international success transformed Sebastien’s life professionally, sexually and domestically. “Many things have changed since La Ritournelle,” he says with a laugh, “now I’m living in a new apartment, I have a new girlfriend and a really beautiful sofa.”
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ilya-555 wrote:
Был я этим летом на stereolet' e и он там выступал. Очень,хочу сказать,данный товарищ меня впечатлил. Больше даже чем Massive Attack....Замечательный дядя...
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Gohel wrote:
J'suis très surpris de pas voir La Dolce Vita dans son top 15, elle est magnifique.
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pixelemoi wrote:
Sébastien<3<3<3<3
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NaturalStudio wrote:
fire glam man!
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WomanOrTiger wrote:
!!!!
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laughinganyway wrote:
It's strange how his albums sound like they're from different artists. Like some of the songs on Politics versus Sexuality.
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mandarinna_rock wrote:
La Ritournelle..simply Divine...
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JohnitoBravo wrote:
Join Us! We Love French Bands
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nachtaktiv wrote:
never reached the level of pure awesomeness of la ritournelle again. but thats okay.. would be kinda scary if he did.
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Lendadal wrote:
vive la france
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alextasyofmind wrote:
peugeot tv comercial song in spain!
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kryminalnybluez wrote:
<3
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the_flava wrote:
pure cheese on a stick
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TAKE_ME_HOME wrote:
genius!
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letsfocusonme wrote:
does somebody know where can I download the live tracks?
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DaftPunkerAlive wrote:
How come a lot of the pics were deleted?????
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nooz81 wrote:
lush!
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ADKONEKO wrote:
Типичный прокуренный обыватель =D
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Heliosphaner wrote:
Divine, Sexual Sportswear, Manty and L'Amour Et La Violence are the only tracks that make the overhyped album quite good.
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ViolentPlanB wrote:
live he's just shit. always drinking, hopping around without his pants, etcetc. the only good thing is the lightshow xD
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Sébastien Tellier
Concorde 2, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Jan
24
Sébastien Tellier
Shepherds Bush Empire, London, United Kingdom
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| 73 attendees
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Jan
29
Sébastien Tellier
Coma, Berlin, Germany
1 shout
| 16 attendees
News
NEW MYSPACE FOR SEBASTIEN
29 Sep 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/telliersebastien
DEAR FRIENDS
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS PAGE WILL NO LONGER BE UPDATED WITH SEBASTIEN TELLIER MUSIC AND NEWS. THIS PAGE WAS RUN BY LUCKY NUMBER IN THE UK FOR SEBASTIEN BUT NOW SEBASTIEN HAS AN OF...
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