Our first CD is now available on Bandcamp! https://violvetine.bandcamp.com/
Our debut album “Violvetine” - Quentin Cooper & Séverine Pigot” is a collection of songs and instrumental pieces that maintains a definite and focused band sound throughout. Years of experimenting playing many different kinds of music have made the writing process more interesting and fun.
Songs like “You Broke my Balls”, and “Swing Elegant” are stripped down live recordings, and others like “Wandering in the Wind”, “Mr.Browne”, “Who do Who?”, and “Let your Habits Go” are full band sound songs with thoughtful playing and production. There are also a few experimental tracks like “Who Wants to?”, “Do it Backwards”, and “Is that it?” that range from electronic based to bebop inspired.
1/ ONE OF THESE MORNINGS (Acoustic groove)
This is a quirky song about those heater skelter mornings when one gets up late, its rhythm an unusual melody gives it a nice modern sound with minimal but suave production.
2/ WANDERING IN THE WIND (Psychedelic pop)
A song with a sound reminiscent of the 60’s psychedelic era.
3/ THE MONOLITH (Neo classical)
This is an instrumental piece with two parts that start as an almost classical composition, building up to a powerful end.
4/ MR. BROWNE (Disco-Pop)
A disco like song with excerpts of rap combine to sculpt a sound that makes ones own perhaps twisted mind wonder what the strange man living next door could be like.
5/ THE PAPER SONG (Pop)
If a piece of Paper in love with a Pencil could talk, what would she say? This song, with a catchy chorus, was one of Violvetine's first recordings.
6/ CHICK HABIT (S.Gainsbourg/A.March) (Rock)
A song written by Serge Gainsbourg for France Gall in the 1960’s, surfy with a good punky vocal, a rocker…
7/ SWING ELEGANT (Swing)
A live swing style instrumental with just viola and Spanish guitar.
8/ THE GRAVEDIGGER (acoustic groove)
A song that paints a vivid picture around a dark and cold graveyard.
9/ WHO DO WHO (Rock-pop)
A full band swinging sound that describes the opiate of cyber ADD.
10/ ¿IS THAT IT? (Experimental Jazz)
A bebop inspired instrumental that explores the possibility of minimum use of notes for a melody.
11/ LET YOUR HABITS GO (Ska)
A full band hard hitting Ska song about getting off one’s ass to try out new things.
12/ YOU BROKE MY BALLS (Folk)
A ballad about a few past memories stitched into a song, with a melody you could hum before going to bed.
13/ THE LAMPLIGHTER (Folk)
A song about a lothario in London in the 1850’s.
14/ DO IT BACKWARDS (Experimental)
An experimental instrumental that sounds like the Vikings have arrived in your living room, be ready.
15/ VENUS IN FURS (L.Reed) (Rock)
The classic Velvet Underground song from the Banana album we all know and love so well
16/ WHO WANTS TO? (Experimental Rock)
A truly experimental and mainly instrumental song with naked to raging sound scapes