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Before recently becoming France's First Lady, Italian-born ex-model Carla Bruni sought elocution and poetry-appreciation tips from buddy Marianne Faithfull. On No Promises, the chanteuse, whose '03 debut disc found her
romantically murmuring in French, adds nicotine-on-velvet English vocals
and a folk-tinged vibe to poems by the likes of Emily Dickinson and W.B.
Yeats. The airy, pastel-hued result aims for the sound of waifish '60s Euro crooners such as Françoise Hardy. And while it's hardly très magnifique, it's not une horreur. B-
DOWNLOAD THIS: ''Those Dancing Days Are Gone''
Posted Feb 15, 2008
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