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Arielle Dombasle
Amor Amor (Wrasse)
Arielle Dombasle is a celebrity in France, the high-profile wife of pretenious if sexy philsopher Bernard-Henri Levy (and in France there's nothing dry or musty about philsophy). The American-born Mexican-reared chanteuse revisits the land of her child hood on Amor Amor. A collection of mid century standards from the United States and Latin America, Amor Amor features an orchestra playing with ch-ampagne sway of dance bands of yore as they accompany Dombasle's seductive vocals with music of deferred passion. Eschewing any misguided efforts to update her arrangements (she doesn't turn "Rum and Coca-Cola" from calypso to reggae or transform the yearning title tune into electronica), Dombasle sounds if she stepped from die grooves of 1940s vintage 78 rpms. It's romantic music for an age bereft of romance. 05/11/06
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