有人说她是老妖精 老妖女,有人说她是老顽童,人老心不老.有人可以在听到她20秒后爱上这位时髦打扮的66岁老太太.她像念歌诗一般的低音女声和清亮的娃娃音,喜欢剃光头和梳冲天辫子. 　　总之,听法国音乐，没有Brigitte Fontaine ，就等于入门没有钥匙一样，这个让人忘掉年龄的音乐老顽童，总能让人产生对咱们父辈一级的人沟通的欲望.她身上所体现出来的对艺术的浓厚质感，会让人砰然心动。 　　　　 BRIGITTE FONTAINE是法国超现实主义歌手、先锋戏剧家、才华横溢的作家、古怪的诗人，可是，这么多称谓仍然不能概括她传奇而丰富多彩的艺术生涯。在法国乐坛，她的受欢迎度可能不及JULIETTE GRECO，甚至都不如JANE BIRKIN，可是，她的出现改变了法国乐坛单调的局面，她涉及的音乐元素很多：自由爵士、非洲音乐、阿拉伯音乐、东方音乐、电子等等，当然还有法国的传统音乐香颂，更难能可贵的是，她完美地将这些音乐元素熔于一炉，并赋予了音乐更加厚重的感觉。 　　 　　 　　by Skip Jansen 　　For this 1998 release, Brigitte Fontaine teams up with an unlikely cast of collaborators from across the '90s' avant-pop spectrum, enlisting Sonic Youth, jazz legend Archie Shepp, the singer simply known as M, French rock groups Noir Désir and les Valentins, as well as the production team Sound Orama. The pick of the tracks here is her work with Sonic Youth, who were clearly great admirers of her '70s albums. The New York avant-garde rockers play an empathetic collection of pieces mixed by Jim O'Rourke, whose expertise intuitively fuses the disparate avant-pop sensibilities into a cohesive and dynamic collaboration. Elsewhere things wander off into a casually eclectic mix of styles that fails to congeal with any one particular design. This melting pot of ideas does, however, have its share of brilliant moments that are well worth checking out. Newcomers to Brigitte Fontaine should look to her '70s work for an introduction -- it is recommended to have a contextual understanding of her wayward pop before exploring the more idiosyncratic works she produced in the '90s.