Comme à la radio | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem and the Art Ensemble of Chicago |
Cover: | Brigitte_fontaine_comme_radio.jpg |
Released: | 15 November 1969 |
Genre: | Chanson |
Label: | Saravah |
Chronology: | Brigitte Fontaine |
Prev Title: | Brigitte Fontaine est... folle ! |
Prev Year: | 1968 |
Next Title: | Brigitte Fontaine |
Next Year: | 1972 |
Comme à la radio is the fourth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, recorded with Areski Belkacem (in their first collaboration) and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.[1] It was released in 1969 on the Saravah label after a series of concerts in 1969. It is Fontaine's most famous album, and is known outside of France on the 1990s alt-rock scene, thanks to laudatory comments from Beck Hansen,[2] or Sonic Youth among others.
The album received the Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Charles Cros that same year. The single "Comme à la radio" has been covered by Japanese artist Jun Togawa in 2000.[3]