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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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Kayna22 wrote:
love S\u00e9bastien Tellier,anyone wanna webcam chat? the link is in my profile.
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Kayna22 wrote:
love S\u00e9bastien Tellier,anyone wanna webcam chat? the link is in my profile.
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jcoomonte wrote:
MR. GOD TELLIER
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claudia_l wrote:
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duniavi wrote:
best ******
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Jarri_V wrote:
Penguin Prison mix of 'Fingers of Steel' - http://disconaivete.blogspot.com/2009/12/golden-train.html
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Rocktaviou5 wrote:
maestro! j t´aime
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vihreakuolema wrote:
so what is Chivers???
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dogpark wrote:
Kilometer Aeroplane is the best
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Jelenino wrote:
you cant compose songs like la ritournelle on and on -such tunes have to `come down` but most of his other stuff is extraordinary as well and a la ritournelle-feel-only-sebastien-tellier would be much less interesting and audiable (& danceable) .
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sianii wrote:
if only his other tracks had the same feel as La Ritournelle
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LU1ZK4RLOZ wrote:
wow!!!
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secretnumber wrote:
genius [2]
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kaseyak wrote:
i do
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MSTRFNK wrote:
who wants to make love while we play Sexuality
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claudia_l wrote:
<3
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ClujNapoca wrote:
J'aime aussi l'Amour et la Violence. Dis moi ce que tu penses, de ma vie, de mon adolescence!... Fucking genius!
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Sinestesica wrote:
Genius.
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barlafus wrote:
brutto alcolizzato torna in tournée altrimenti ti sfondo il muso.
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m-salami wrote:
love the beat on sexuality of course
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Roche (Breakbot Mix) | 4:18 |
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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29 Sep 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/telliersebastien
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