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"Hamlet"  with the Tiger Lilies...
The unclassifiable style of the group has been described as a Brechtian cabaret with very dark humor, as an eccentric fusion between the burlesque of the 1930s and the English music hall or as the missing link between Tom Waits and the Monty Python. Their style is inspired by post-war French song, gypsy music or Italian opera.

 

Le style du groupe inclassable Tiger Lilies est décrit comme un cabaret brechtien à l'humour très noir, comme une fusion excentrique entre le burlesque des années 1930 et le music hall anglais ou encore comme le chaînon manquant entre Tom Waits et les Monty Python. Leur style s'inspire de la chanson française d'après guerre, de la musique gitane ou encore de l'opéra italien…  

 

 

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"is that all there is?" from 2019's album "Devil's fairground"

 

 

Their last album is "Requiem for a virus"

 

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Holly ghost

Our friend David Coulter plays a beautiful part of musical saw on this Low's song.

Recorded and filmed by Shawn Biggs of Little Echoes at Studio Paradiso in San Francisco on August 12th, 2016.

Zigouner

ZIGOUNER: v.tr. Faire le bruit d'une scie qui coupe mal 
origine : Corse

SBATOULLER: v.tr. Se dit d'une porte qui fait du bruit en heurtant quelque chose de manière répétée 
origine : Corse

"La porte, elle sbatoulle; qu'est-ce qu'elle a sbatoullé!"  - anonyme


Pierre Henry : variations pour une porte et un soupir - 1963 -            
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Gino Bordin

Gino Bordin, born in 1899 in Vicence (North Italia) started with his brother
in the "Ottorino's African Jazz ", an orchestra which mixed accordions, banjos, guitars, bùmbass with horn, as well musical saw played by Gino himself.
In the early 20s, he went in Paris to play banjo and musical saw, as well an impressive harp-guitar, at Bousca's, a Bastille's famous place for dancing in Paris where the french "musette" started to be fashionable.
He supported Antoine Bouscatel who was one of the masters of the "musette" (bagpipes from Auvergne, France) and Charles Péguri at diatonic accordion.

"C'est une valse qui chante"
by Gino Bordin (muiscal saw) and Charles Paknadel (violin)
Parlophone 80483 - 1930/1931 / courtesy of Grass Skirt Records

Then he started to play guitar in the Hawaiian style, and became successfull through his concerts, radio shows and records on his own name, as well accompanying known singers as Tino Rossi, Lucienne Delyle, as well accordion aces as Louis Ferrari, Gus Viseur, Fredo Gardoni and many others.

A reissue of Gino's acoustic steel guitar music from the 30s had been published by Les Cook, manager of Grass Skirt Records and our friend Cyril Lefebvre who signed the excellent booklet. 

excerpt of the tribute played by Loïc Hula Boy in L'isle sur la Sorgue, south of France,  

last week-end, where was fixed a commemorative plaque on the wall of the house 

where Gino finished his life in 1977.
 

 

 

   

Gino Bordin with the "Ottorino African Jazz band", playing the musical saw

      picture extracted from the booklet of "Gino Bordin, virtuose de la guitare Hawaiienne"
    courtesy of Grass Skirt Records

 

   

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