St. Germain is pure class. Not going after the pop dollar at all. These
are pure session style muso's who love what they do and have combined the
smokin jazz/blues skills with Navarre who takes his minimalistic style to
production.
As you mention, Blue Note helped this record to get where it was, because
it simply has greater distribution power than FNAC.
Just because something ends up crossing over doth not make it teeny bopper
beats.
Hell, look at J's "Pullover" for instance.
The great part about this scenario is that it gave jazz enthusiasts an
interesting perspective with the house style beats, and vice versa. The
group has opened alot of doors between genres. I know a lot of my friends
who dig St. Germain are now listening to 'underground' jazz for want of a
better word, and jazz afficionados are now digging the dancefloor friendly
nature of some of the tracks. Hell, I even played them some stuff like
Nation2Nation and World2World (et al..) and they're getting into it.
On the side... here's a review I did of St. Germain live a few months
back http://www.inthemix.com.au/p/np/viewnews.php?newsid=980652978,99124,
Commercialist angling, I think not. Pure funk? Yes.
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At 08:52 PM 27/03/2001 -0500, you wrote:
i think the blue note label did a lot for the crazy response this album
received. its been on the billboard jazz top ten for some 24 weeks, was
number one for a while
p
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, b.phenix wrote:
>
> st germain newest album is being sold in starbuck stores.
> obscure they are not.
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> `I was flipping threw channels and heard the track Rose Rouge by St.
Germain
> `on MTV. It was being played in the background as a boy band (sorry but I
> `don't know the name) were in the act of ripping off there clothes on
stage.
> `So my question is...Does St. Germain have any videos out? Is it just
> `coincidence that the song was being played or is St. Germain going
after the
> `Teen Pop Culture.
> `
> `
