Tendance
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Tendance is an expanded re-release of French singer Amanda Lear
's 2001 album Heart
, by issued by Sony Music Germany in 2003, taking its title from a French TV-series hosted by Lear at the time. The German edition omits "Manuel Guerreiro Da Luz" but adds three other tracks; the oriental remix of hit single "Love Boat", entitled "Rainbow Love Boat", Lear's theme song to her Italian TV-series Cocktail D'Amore composed by long-time collaborator Cristiano Malgioglio, and her 2002 duet with Belgian boyband Get Ready!, "Beats Of Love", a cover version of the 1984 hit single by Belgian band Nacht Und Nebel.
Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....
's 2001 album Heart
Heart (Amanda Lear album)
-Personnel:*Amanda Lear - lead vocals*Cécile Maestre - backing vocals*Sandrine Foguère - backing vocals*Judith Flessel-Toto - backing vocals*Stefano Meghenzani - piano, Rhodes & accordion*Patrick Bacqueville - trombone*Nicolas Baudino - flute, saxophone...
, by issued by Sony Music Germany in 2003, taking its title from a French TV-series hosted by Lear at the time. The German edition omits "Manuel Guerreiro Da Luz" but adds three other tracks; the oriental remix of hit single "Love Boat", entitled "Rainbow Love Boat", Lear's theme song to her Italian TV-series Cocktail D'Amore composed by long-time collaborator Cristiano Malgioglio, and her 2002 duet with Belgian boyband Get Ready!, "Beats Of Love", a cover version of the 1984 hit single by Belgian band Nacht Und Nebel.
Track listing
- "Love Boat" (P. Williams - C. Fox) - 3:11
- "Do U Wanna See It?" (A. Lear - T. Willems - L. Wolf) - 3:51
- "Tendance" (A. Lear - T. Willems - F. X. Costello) - 4:16
- "Lili Marleen" (2001 Re-recording) (T. Connor - N. Schultze) - 3:49
- "Hier Encore (Yesterday When I Was Young)" (C. Aznavour - H. Kretzmer - C. Aznavour) - 3:55
- "Porque Me Gusta" (A. Lear - N. Amal - F.X. Costello) - 4:00
- "I Just Wanna Dance Again" (Pumpin' Dolls Mix) (T. Willems - L. Fox) - 3:52
- "Travel By Night" ("Vol De Nuit" - English Version) (T. Willems - F. X. Costello) - 4:17
- "L'Invitation Au Voyage" (C.Baudelaire - F.X.Costello) - 3:59
- "The Look Of Love" (H. David - B. Bacharach) - 4:02
- "L'Importante E' Finire" (A. Anelli - C. Malgioglio) - 3:18
- "Rainbow Love Boat" (Oriental Mix) (A. Lear - T. Willems - F. X. Costello) - 4:56
- "Cocktail D'Amore" (Original Mix 2002) (Malgioglio - Mancini - Castellari) - 4:14
- "Beats Of Love" (Radio Edit) (Duet with Get Ready!) (Patrick Marina Nebel) - 3:40
Personnel
- Amanda Lear - vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
- Get Ready! - vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
on "Beats Of Love" - Cécile Maestre - backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
- Sandrine Foguère - backing vocals
- Judith Flessel-Toto - backing vocals
- Stefano Meghenzani - pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, Rhodes & accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.... - Patrick Bacqueville - tromboneTromboneThe trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
- Nicolas Baudino - fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, saxophoneSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846... - François Biesan - trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
- Farhat Bouallagui - violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Bernard Ortoli - percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
- Christophe Dubois - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- FX Costello - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
& sounds
Production
- Recorded and mixed at Barouf Studio
- Produced and arranged by FX Costello (Barouf Prod) except "Do U Wanna See It?" & "I Just Wanna Dance Again" by Laurent Wolf at Studio Wolf.
- Mastering: La Source - Paris
- Models: David & Alexandro
- Get Ready! appear with kind permission of Virgin Music Belgium.
Single releases
- 2002: "Beats Of Love" (Get Ready! Feat Amanda Lear) / "City" (Get Ready!) (Belgium; Virgin Music 7243 546881 2 6)