Frogy popy cheesy gauloisery
Boum! has been performing their unauthorized melange of French culture and English panache for almost three decades.
Classic chansons from Brel to Gainsbourg to Trenet to Piaf are covered in irreverent, energetic, romantic, and loving style.
Instrumental virtuosity abounds whilst fun-filled slap-stick moments form a large part of this band’s irrepressible charm.
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GASTON MERCIER arrive à Londres en 1989 et forme Boum en 1994. Depuis GASTON navigue
entre l’Angleterre et la France interprétant en solo ou en groupe son répertoire de chanson Française dans un style unique et personnel,
plein de charme, d’humour et d’irrévérence.
GASTONMERCIER – BOUM!
GASTONMERCIER
Gaston Mercier interprète seul son répertoire
à la guitare et au ukulélé.
BOUM!
“Sacre bleu !! Frenchy Music!
Ooh, La la !! “
EUROSTAR
The album was made in Paris @Artistic studio, produced by Jean-Marie Paras.
Never officially released. Album without a name but a big artwork made on the song Eurostar by the great Koshiro !
POP FRANCE
The album was recorded at the famous Pathway studio in London.
First album as a trio with some amazing guests, Steve Noble on drum, Kazuko Hoki on voice (and in Japanese!) Andy Pinayi on drum Seddik Zebiri on derbouka
BOUM!
A new edition of Pop France, mixed in Paris, Picture made by Chris Nash, fewer titles on this album, distributed by Socadisc.
GALLERY
REVIEWS
“The best thing to escape France since De Gaulle! ”
« Band leader and guitariste Gilles Mordant, a man capable of making a few hearts go Boum! himself. »
« … Jacques Brel tries rap in a Michel Legrand mood as performed by John Shuttleworth under the influence of Charles Mingus, Brillant. »
“Nos gaillards sont aussi doués pour l’émouvant que pour le désopilant. Répertoire gouteux, arrangement inventifs, entrain contagieux, on dit « bis » à Boum!”
” I play music from around the world putting the latest releases side by side with the best music from the past fifty years. Every now and then I run across an artist or group which embodies the spirit of what I’m trying to achieive and one of the best I have heard in 1996 has been Boum!
” …A terrific live band that combine a real feel for the breath of the French chanson with an anarchic, stylish stage show that never lets the audience escape for a moment ..”
” A force d’entendre dire que la chanson française ne peut passer les frontières, on avait fini par le croire!!! Et puis…rencontre avec BOUM! et les certitudes s’effondrent, même le public anglo-saxon peut goûter nos refrains…. “
” Quelle joie de rencontrer trois artistes avec tant de joie de vivre… J’ai souvent l’impression en les écoutant qu’il n y a jamais eu d’autres orchestrations, d’autres interprétations “
