Jane Birkin / Di Doo Dah – CD

Description

• CD Digipack
• Birkins debut solo album and pinnacle collaboration between Jane, Serge Gainsbourg and Jean Claude Vannier
• Includes booklet providing English/French lyrics as well a new interview with Jane

Track Listing:

1. Di doo dah
2. Help camionneur
3. Encore lui
4. Puisque je te le dis
5. Les capotes anglaises
6. Leur plaisir sans moi
7. Mon amour baiser
8. Banana Boat
9. Kawasaki
10. La cible qui bouge
11. La baigneuse de Brighton
12. C’est la vie qui veut ca
13. La dcadance (Bonus Track)
14. Les langues de chat (Bonus Track)

Di Doo Dah is the first true solo album from British born actress, model, singer, mother, and French national treasure, Jane Birkin. Emerging as a creative and beatific force in Londons Swinging 60s, she met Parisian provocateur Serge Gainsbourg in 1968 on the film set of Slogan and birthed one of the most fantastic creative collaborations the world has ever known. After the 1969 duet album Je TAime Moi Non Plus and the landmark LHistoire De Melody Nelson Jane was ready for her own namesake debut. Di Doo Dah sees Birkin, Gainsbourg, and co-conspirator Jean-Claude Vannier (LEnfant Assassin Des Mouches) meld Janes fragile vocals with jazz, rock, and lush orchestral textures: a perfect album for living and loving. Light In The Attics definitive version of Di Doo Dah is available for the first time in North America on 180-gram vinyl, with original artwork, unseen photographs, and extensive liner notes by renowned music journalist Andy Beta (Spin, The FADER). With full cooperation and insight from Birkin herself not to mention French lyrics and English translations this reissue truly allows listeners to delve into the albums witty and frank world of sex, sin, voyeurism, motorcycles, Brighton, and banana boats.

So what exactly does Di Doo Dah mean? Nothing at all! replied Birkin in a BBC interview from 1973. But this album is far from a throwaway, showing a maturity and musical understanding from all parties involved. By the early 70s, this lady was already a mother and very much aware of traditional gender roles as well as the sexual revolution clearly able to plumb the necessary emotional depths required to translate Serges madcap lyrics and songs. It is true that in Birkin, Serge had finally found his match and most transcendent muse. And although the couple eventually went their separate ways, they left us all whistling much more than Zipp-a-Dee-Doo-Dah in the process.

Viva Di Doo Dah!