1. The Man With the Cabbage Head (2:47)
2. Deadly Tedium (2:44)
3. Coffee Colour (2:07)
4. The Convict's Song (3:40)
5. SS c'est bon (2:47)
6. I Envisage (6:31)
Extracts From "Anna" 7. A Day Like Any Other (2:05)
8. A Violent Poison (That's What Love Is) (2:37)
9. More and More, Less and Less (2:24)
10. Don't Say a Thing (3:03)
11. Boomerang (3:08)
12. The Decadance (5:34)
Muzycy
Mick Harvey (Michael John Harvey) (29.08.1958 Rochester, Victoria, Australia)
[1] French titles (L'Homme à Tête De Chou)
Mick Harvey - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
J.P. Shilo - Electricity Guitar
Yoyo Röhm - Piano
Bertrand Burgalat - Bass
Toby Dammit - Drums
[4] French titles (Chanson Du Forçat)
Mick Harvey - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Organ
J.P. Shilo - Guitar
Glenn Lewis - Bass
Hugo Cran - Drums
[5] French titles (Est-ce Est-ce Si Bon)
Mick Harvey - Vocals, Piano
J.P. Shilo - Vocals, Anti-social Guitar, Percussion
Glenn Lewis - Bass
Hugo Cran - Drums
Backing Vocals - Jess Ribeiro, Xanthe Waite, Julitha Ryan, Lyndelle-Jayne Spruyt
[6] French titles (J'Envisage)
Mick Harvey - Vocals, Organ
J.P. Shilo - Guitar, Tremoloscillator Organ
Glenn Lewis - Bass
Hugo Cran - Drums
[7] French titles (Un Jour Comme Un Autre)
Xanthe Waite - Vocals
Mick Harvey - Vocals, Guitar, Piano
J.P. Shilo - Guitar
Bertrand Burgalat - Bass
Toby Dammit - Drums
Backing Vocals - Jess Ribeiro, Julitha Ryan, Lyndelle-Jayne Spruyt Strings - Bronwyn Henderson, Lizzy Walsh & Biddy Connor String Arrangement - Bertrand Burgalat & Mick Harvey
[8] French titles (Un Poison Violent C'est Ça L'amour)
Mick Harvey - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
J.P. Shilo - Electricity Guitar, Backing Vocals, Noises
Glenn Lewis - Bass
Hugo Cran - Drums
[9] French titles (De Plus En Plus De Moins En Moins)
Xanthe Waite - Vocals
Mick Harvey - Vocals, Piano, Organ
J.P. Shilo - Guitar
Bertrand Burgalat - Bass
Toby Dammit - Drums
Backing Vocals - Julitha Ryan Strings - Anouk Ross, Dahlia Adamopoulos, Pauline Hauswirth, Vincent Catulescu String Arrangement - Bertrand Burgalat
[11] French titles (Boomerang)
Mick Harvey - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Piano
Bertrand Burgalat - Bass
Toby Dammit - Drums
Percussion Jam - Mick Harvey, Steve Shelley, JP Shilo Strings - Anouk Ross, Dahlia Adamopoulos, Pauline Hauswirth, Vincent Catulescu String Arrangement - Bertrand Burgalat
[12] French titles (La Décadanse)
Katy Beale - Vocals
Mick Harvey - Vocals, Organ
J.P. Shilo - Slide Guitar
Glenn Lewis - Bass
Hugo Cran - Drums
Strings - Anouk Ross, Dahlia Adamopoulos, Pauline Hauswirth, Vincent Catulescu String Arrangement - Bertrand Burgalat
All songs written by Serge Gainsbourg except
J'Envisage written by Alain Bashung/Serge Gainsbourg La Décadanse written by Addie Brik/Serge Gainsbourg 'L'Homme à Tête De Chou' & 'Est-ce Est-ce Si Bon' published by Melody Nelson Publishing
'Ce Mortel Ennui', 'Chanson Du Forçat', 'Un Jour Comme Un Autre', 'Un Poison Violent C'est Ça L'amour', 'De Plus En Plus De Moins En Moins', 'Ne Dis Rien' & 'Boomerang' published by Melody Nelson Publishing/Warner Chappell Music France
'Couleur Café' published by Melody Nelson Publishing/Sidonie,
'J'Envisage' published by Allo Bebe Music/SM Publishing (France),
'La Décadanse' published by Melody Nelson Publishing/Warner Chappell Music France/Cooking Vinyl Publishing.
Toby Dammit would like to thank Sabian Cymbals Aquarian drumheads, Vic Firth drumsticks and mallets and not least Matshef drums for the Stooges DNA drum kit, recorded here for the first time.
Cover photography, concept and collage layout by Mick Harvey Thanks in Lyndelle-Jayne Spruyt, Xanthe, Zephyr and Katy for their photographs and to these who provided images from their private collections and to Fritz Brinckmann of faceland.com for his photo of Yoyo
Lyrks translated by Mick Harvey with indispensable assistance from Lyndelle-Jayne Spruyt. Acknowledgement should also be made to the various online translations which are currently accesaible and which providewd good advice and on occasion insights inclsding haw not to go about the task of creating a version which can be sung
Translations by Mick Harvey
Lyrics can be found at mickharvey.com/lyrics gainsbourg.php
Tracks 4,5,6,8 & 10 recorded at BIRDLAND, Melbourne in October 2015.
Engineered by Brenton Conlan
Tracks 1,2,3,7,9,11 & 12 recorded at CANDY BOMBER, Berlin in November 2015.
Engineered by Ingo Krauss
French Strings recorded at CBE, Paris, engineered by David Mestre
Melbourne Strings and general overdubs at BIRDLAND.
Additional recording at GRACE LANE, Melbourne
Mixed by Lindsay Gravina at BIRDLAND, Melbourne in early 2016.
Mastered by Lindsay Gravina at BIRDLAND.
Cut by Barry Grint at Alchemy.
Produced by Mick Harvey
This album is dedicated to James Cruickshank - it would have been better him there and it would have been better had he been there. He would have been all over it and be would have been all over it.
