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Artist: Home
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724357146227
EAN: 0724357146227
ASIN: B000231W6G

Release Date: 2004-06-08

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Modern French Pop
Francophilia!
Classy sexy musique en francais, 2004-5
Smart, classy, sensitive Benjamin Biolay French pop
Best French releases 2003 - 2004

Tracks:

Ballade du Mois de Juin
Tête À Claques
House Is Not a Home
Mobil Home
Quelque Part on M'Attend
Folle de Toi
Apologie
Probléme?
She's My Baby
Plage
Arizona
Dance Rock 'N Roll
Douce Comme l'Eau

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Customer Reviews:

Biolay-Mastroianni "Home".......2004-10-06

This is a breathtaking album; as soon as I started listening to it I rated it in my top five albums of 2004. Chiara's voice is perfectly matched to the material; she doesn't sing hard, but she has snappy phrasing and she makes the most of the arrangements, which are lush and full without being sappy. Most of the songs have a fairly simple guitar-based sound.

According to the Radio France website, this album is supposed to be a "road-trip" record. The stripped-down arrangements do a good job of not getting in the way of the lyrics, and they convey a sense of movement and direction.

If this record has any kind of similarity to the Francoise Hardy/Serge Gainsbourg ye-ye genre of French pop, it's in the sly eroticism of the songs; they are definitely coming from an adult sensibility.

If you are looking for complicated, original adult songs, interpreted by an accomplished vocalist, this is a disc for you. For those who don't speak French, there are a few English songs and the lyrics (clear and easy to understand) are included.

Chiara Mastroianni + Benjamin Biolay = Home.......2004-08-10

Quite a pleasant surprise from France!
Taking a detour from the usual Europop, Benjamin Biolay and his wife, the talented actress Chiara Mastroianni (yes, the daughter of ýberdiva Catherine Deneuve and the immortal Marcello)pull a Gainsbourg/Birkin stunt and turn it on its ear.
The result? A fascinating landscape of atmospheric pop, rythm-guitar, hypnotic chanting and erotic airs that conjugate a great album.
Starting with the lazy twangs of "La Ballade du Mois de Juin", we are transported to a place in the french countryside wherein this couple acts as host-hostess of a musical feast. The influences are as varied as Lou Reed, the aforementioned Gainsbourg, Franýoise Hardy, Stereolab and The Cocteau Twins. Chiara's voice is ethereal yet earthy, with a perfect timing and diction both in english ("A House is Not a Home") and french (the delicious "L'Arizona"). There is a hip lullaby dedicated to their own daughter, Anna ("She's my baby") and even a haunting closing prayer ("Douce comme le eau").
Definitely, if you crave for something different from the usual array of regular pop fare, you should look into this one: it is a gratifying experience and offers many tricks, including an infectious and snappy tune: "Dance Rock'n'Roll" which entices you to do just that... shake your hips and dance.

Definitely, a marvelous find!

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