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Putumayo Presents: French Playground
List price: $15.98
Sale price: $13.99
You save: $1.99 (12%)
Artist(s): Various Artists
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0790248024226
Item Dimensions: Weight 0.25 lbs.
Label: Putumayo World Music
List Price: $15.98
Manufacturer: Putumayo World Music
MPN: 242
Number Of Discs: 1
Package Dimensions:
Height: 0.54"
Width: 4.97"
Length: 0.54"
Weight: 0.18 lbs.
Product Group: Music
Publisher: Putumayo World Music
Release Date: 2005-10-04
Studio: Putumayo World Music
UPC: 790248024226
Tracks:
- Chatouiller le Ciel Avec Toi (Tickle the Sky with You) - Schneider, Alain
- Lutece (Lutetia) - Charpentreau, Jacqu
- Wonderful - Parisot, Pascal
- Clic-Clac Oh C'Est Beau! (Click! Oh This Is Beautiful) - Dimey, Dominique
- Bonjour, Bonjour (Hello, Hello) - Delgutte, Oliver
- Monsieur Bibendum (Mr. Bibendum) - Eveno, Manu
- L 'Île Maurice (Mauritius) - Triton, Eric
- Le Matin en Patins (Skating in the Morning) - Vigneault, Gilles
- Petit Français (Little French Man) - Lamy, P.
- Sensation (Bidi Bom Bom) - Quintanilla, S.
- Croque (Bite) - 2003
- La P'tite Monnaie (Small Change) - Benabar
Editorial Reviews
Album Description:
French Playground, a musical rendez-vous of fun French and French Creole songs will delight children of all ages. French Playground reflects the rich variety of Francophone music. Bilingual families and children learning French or English will enjoy the fact that the complete lyrics for each song are printed in both languages. The CD features full-color liner notes with artist and cultural information. The artists on French Playground include some of the most popular children’s performers in their respective countries, along with successful pop artists such as Pascal Parisot, Thomas Fersen, Tryo and Ariane Moffat whose songs were selected for their all-ages appeal. Musical styles range from French chanson and Gypsy jazz to the twoubadou music of Haiti and the roots-bending style of Triton, who is from Mauritius, an island off the east coast of Africa. Gallic joie de vivre is expressed in each of the tunes, from the opening song’s invitation to "tickle the sun" with a ladybug (Chatouiller le Ciel avec Toi), to songs that celebrate the beauty of the South of France ("Clic-Clac Oh C’est Beau!". Listeners share a boisterous Sunday dinner with family (La P’tite Monnaie). Some of the tracks provide tasty little slices of French life, including "Bonjour,Bonjour", which tells of a little bus’s journey past boulangeries and other neighborhood spots. Children will also enjoy a young man’s memories of staying with his grandparents (Petit Francais). A portion of the proceeds from the sale of French Playground will benefit Terre des Hommes, whose efforts provide active support to disadvantaged children around the world.
Amazon.com:
What a welcome change this collection is! Completely free of the arch, cloying ickiness that sometimes informs even the most well-intentioned kids' music offerings, these tunes may well help create a vanguard of pint-sized, sophisticated (in the best sense of the word!) world citizens. While not all of the selections were originally composed with this market in mind, the music is nonetheless delightfully child-appropriate in content, rhythmic bounciness and melodic saturation. The producers have rightly assumed that youngsters are small but sentient beings whose developing tastes and interests need to be engaged and encouraged. The styles employed evoke a nostalgic yet ultra-contemporary enfant boulevardier's world of cafés, bicyclettes with bells, bals musette and le jazz hot, so that parents will also be charmed and not find themselves left out of the experience, or worse, rolling their eyes and diving for cover. The songs not only reflect daily life as encountered by children living in France but accurately portray that nation's modern cultural melting pot -- where immigrants and visitors from Africa, the Caribbean and North America, regardless of encroaching ultra-right isolationism, have indelibly graced the national consciousness with their own traditions and dialects. --Christina Roden
Customer Reviews Average rating - 5.0
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-10-18
Content: I'm a beginner French learner. I got this product for pronunciation practice. It has lyrics for the songs in the package. You can follow the lyrics when you try to sing. There are 4 easy, 4 intermediate and 4 difficult songs, I can say.
Summary: excellent for pronunciation
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-08-01
Content: This is an excellent collection of kid-friendly songs in French that don't feel like nursery rhymes in another language. The singers and styles are varied enough to keep it interesting after many repeats, with enough of a contemporary beat to bring a smile to the adults listening.
Summary: Fabulous French Fun
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-07-18
Content: My husband and I both love this c.d. We play it for our daughter all the time.
Summary: Fabulous music!
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-03-22
Content: This is a great collection of original, contemporary songs in French from many parts of the world. I think it's the best Putumayo CD ever. People seem to enjoy it no matter their level of French! The music & lyrics are alive, relevant, full of interesting images, textures, voices. The songs have a way of introducing people, points of view, places, sort of like you're going around the world meeting interesting people everywhere you go, hearing their stories.
Kids under the "age of reason" will just like listening and probably want to know the gist of each song. Meanwhile the parents will enjoy the miracle of music that appeals to them as much as to their kids. There's something for every age and if understanding the lyrics makes older kids think a little, then FANTASTIC.
If you are looking for wonderful REAL French music with world flavor, this is it. If you are looking for plastic tunes that feed your kids a sanitized list of vocabulary, nope, this is not it. There is nothing I find offensive in here, but there is funny, real, tongue-in-cheek stuff, descriptive of our world and of real people.
Summary: Deliciously fun for kids and grownups
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-02-23
Content: Our entire family is pleased with this delightful CD. We purchased it for our one year old granddaughter who dances and smiles every time she hears the music. The added bonus has been that this music lifts the spirits of the adults in the household as well. Magical!
Summary: highly entertaining
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