Nouvelle Vague

On Tour

See all 95 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to Nouvelle Vague Radio, featuring artists like Mélanie Pain, Hollywood, Mon Amour, Philippe Sarde, Michel Colombier and more…

• Search on Spotify

24,892,114 plays (778,336 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Nouvelle Vague Ringtones to Cell

Buy

• Download
• Amazon
• Juno
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

Three different groups have performed under the name Nouvelle Vague:

Nouvelle Vague (France) is a project created by French musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux and a number of female singers, including Camille, Alexandra Pavlou of Spring and Suburbia, Mélanie Pain, Marina Céleste & Phoebe Killdeer of Phoebe Killdeer and the Short Straws. The group’s albums consist in bossa nova fashioned covers of (primarily) new wave songs (hence the name “Nouvelle Vague”). The covers include songs by Dead Kennedys, The Smiths, Joy Division, Public Image Ltd. , Depeche Mode and Bauhaus. Each singer only performed songs they were not previously familiar with, to ensure that each cover would have an individual interpretation.

With a name that means “new wave” in English and “nova onda” in Portuguese (which is the meaning for “bossa nova”, a new music “fashion”), Nouvelle Vague’s moniker neatly sums up the group’s concept: remaking classic new wave singles with a Brazilian pop twist. Libaux played with various French pop bands during the ’90s and began working with Collin in 1998. For Nouvelle Vague, Collin and Libaux recruited half a dozen French and Brazilian vocalists who were unfamiliar with the original versions of songs like Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and XTC’s “Making Plans For Nigel” to ensure that their renditions had their own identity. Nouvelle Vague was released in Europe in 2004 and received U.S.

Read more… Edit bio

Popular tags: bossa nova, french, female vocalists, chillout, indie  See more

Share this artist:

• Tweet
• Send

Top Albums

• Nouvelle Vague
  Nouvelle Vague

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.99
  • 7digital $9.99
  • Juno $10.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $9.35
  • eBay Search
• Bande a Part
  Nouvelle Vague

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $8.99
  • 7digital $9.99
  • Juno $10.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• 3
  Nouvelle Vague

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $9.49
  • 7digital $8.99
  • Juno $10.99
  • iTunes $9.99
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• Nouvelle Vague (Limited French Version)
  Nouvelle Vague

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search

Top Tracks

• Last Week
• Last 6 months

1		In a Manner of Speaking			2,220
2		Love Will Tear Us Apart			1,852
3		Ever Fallen in Love			1,663
4		Too Drunk to Fuck			1,482
5		Dance With Me			1,445
6		This Is Not a Love Song			1,357
7		I Melt With You			1,277
8		Guns of Brixton			1,203
9		Making Plans for Nigel			1,171
10		Just Can't Get Enough			1,148
11		Teenage Kicks			1,108
12		Dancing With Myself			1,097
13		Blue Monday			801
14		A Forest			775
15		Heart of Glass			729

Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3

See more