Slim Twig is a Canadian film director who also makes music (like David Lynch, or John Carpenter ). It’s meaningful for his pop musical orientation that he made some split releases with US Girls, Dirty Beaches and Ela Orleans.
His latest album will be re-issued soon by DFA. „A Hound At The Hem” is a concept album, thematically and musically it based on Serge Gainsbourg’s Melody Nelson. Significant disparity that the story of Melody Nelson was the reality of the two main characters’ life. That is so good owing to this specially reason. And because of Gainsbourg’s genius, of course. So good…it’s gem in his amazing life-work. Naturally „A Hound At The Hem” is far from it, but perhaps non-irrespective of it, this is the best work of Slim Twig.

All This Wanting

directed by US Girls

I’m sorry. I couldn’t identify instantly that the French actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg‘s recently released Hey Joe cover

is two covers in one. The second one is the Cargo Culte by her father, Serge Gainsbourg, from his album Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971). Listen and compare!

The Hey Joe cover is produced by Beck.

from the Lars von Trier film, Nymph()maniac. She is among the leads too.
Her first hit with her father at her age of 13 occurs to me from the film.
You can buy the digital single here
The original

The confirmed Slovenian cover band, the Laibach’s latest cover is a Serge Gainsbourg song, Love On The Beat

taken from ‘S’ EP

The original

taken from his same titled album (1984). This is the harder…

In the video the girl is Caroline von Paulus, aka Bambou, she comes of family of general field marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, who occupied among others Lieges, Lille and Orleans in the Second World War. He was the commander of German troops in the Battle of Stalingrad. Bambou was his last lover, and mother of his son.

New Laibach album ‘Spectre‘ in Feb 2014.