Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Pink Martini - Sympathique : Hear Fun Music and Brush Up Your French!




Pink Martini's first and only music video for their song "Sympathique" from the 1997 album Sympathique. Directed by Alex Marashian.

From Wikipedia: "Pink Martini is a "little orchestra" from Portland, Oregon, formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale. They blend genres of music such as Latin, lounge, classical, and jazz. Their music has often been described as "vintage music", a description which reflects the content, style and period that inspires many of their songs.

"Band leader, Thomas Lauderdale describes the band's sound as "music of the world without being world music. It's kind of like urban symphonic crossed with Cuban/Brazilian street Carnival parade, Breakfast at Tiffany's/United Nations kind of thing. The goal was to create the kind of records with which one would hopefully never grow tired of. Records that could be played whether you were sad or gleeful. Cleaning, vacuuming around the house or seducing somebody's grandmother."

“Pink Martini is a rollicking around-the-world musical adventure … if the United Nations had a house band in 1962, hopefully we’d be that band.”
– Thomas Lauderdale.


If you want more background, check out this eclectic band's site:

http://pinkmartini.com/

13 comments:

  1. An official "doug's site" bonus trac! Here's the band performing "Hey Eugene", their title song from a recent album (from June, 2007).

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  2. love their name and their music thanks :)

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  3. THANK YOU for highlighting one of the best things to come out of Oregon since -- well; a long, long time!!!!

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  4. The first song left my high school French in the dust!!! I did like the second one as well. Thank you for introducing us to new music

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  5. That's goes ditto for me, growed :-)

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  6. Thanks Jim. Very different songs, that's for sure.

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  7. You're welcome Fred. It's new music for me as well.

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  8. My pleasure Astra. Always like sharing a fine discovery--especially from one and only state of Oregon and the city I was born in!

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  9. Super, Doug! Hahaha, I wish my French lessons had been like this and not the hard slog it was at the beginning!

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  10. I gather from the comments to this video on You Tube that many French teachers have used this song since it came out a dozen or so years ago. Sacre Bleu! Where was Pink Martini when I was struggling through First Year French back in ninth grade! ;-)

    Glad you enjoyed this one Cassandra. I can't believe this is the first I've heard of this band. I really must get out more I suppose.

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