Jaeger-LeCoultre - A Reverso Watch for Charlotte Gainsbourg
A true icon of fine watchmaking, Reverso celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. While keeping its status as a reference, Reverso is revealed in a new light in the video of Charlotte Gainsbourg, a talented artist and a many-sided personality.
As a recording artist and live performer, Charlotte Gainsbourg achieved a considerable breakthrough in the U.S. with her Beck-produced album IRM and the tour that followed, her first-ever. When her next album—the Stage Whisper double LP of live and unreleased material—arrives this fall, it will (somehow) have been nearly two years since IRM came out. In the meantime, on September 6, Because Music / Elektra will release Terrible Angels EP, which features two unreleased studio tracks, two live recordings, and two videos.
Video Online Now on Youtube: http://youtu.be/bs1BNBstU1c
Terrible Angels EP includes: "Terrible Angels," written and produced by Beck; "Memoir," written by Conor O'Brien, produced by O'Brien and Renaud Letang (Feist); live versions of "IRM" and "Just Like a Woman," recorded on Gainsbourg's summer 2010 European tour; and videos for "Just Like a Woman"(live) and "Terrible Angels."
This is just a sampling of the material comprising Stage Whisper, which includes seven studio recordings and eleven live songs. Many of the studio tracks come from sessions for IRM, one of the most celebrated albums of 2010.
The New York Times called it "an engrossingly eclectic pop record and a kind of coming-out party: the first time that Ms. Gainsbourg the chanteuse has displayed the charisma of Charlotte Gainsbourg the actress."
Vanity Fair deemed the album "an enigmatic, varied, and sonically complex tour de force." In a four-star review, UNCUT lauded the album's "relentlessly forward-looking, hybridized pop vision." These new releases coincide with considerable acclaim Gainsbourg is receiving for her most recent collaboration with Lars Von Trier, Melancholia (2011).