Brunch music filer:

April 27, 2008 4:04 PM

Can you figure out what song I've been listening to?

There is a very chilled out french language song I usually hear at (NYC, downtown, east side) brunch spots, I'd love get a copy of this song and others like it, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is.

Sorry I don't have much info, but it is a female singing, sounds kind of jazz via electronic, I've tried google and iTunes to no avail.

Of course I'll ask next time I hear it, but I'm hoping to get a brunch soundtrack together soon, so any help and/or recs would be greatly appreciated!

posted by cestmoi15 to Media & Arts (16 answers total)

Best answer: Could it be Stereolab? They're British, but most of their vocals are in French.
posted by farishta at 4:19 PM on April 27, 2008

Perhaps Nouvelle Vague?
posted by quelindo at 4:30 PM on April 27, 2008

Something by Air?
posted by Bookhouse at 4:50 PM on April 27, 2008

Gotan Project?
posted by raztaj at 4:50 PM on April 27, 2008

Thievery Corporation - Un Simple Historie?
posted by Frank Grimes at 4:55 PM on April 27, 2008

oops, that should be Un Simple Histoire.
posted by Frank Grimes at 4:58 PM on April 27, 2008

Alternatively, might it be 'Sous le Soleil' (iTunes tells me it's by Major Boys featuring Aurelia). In any case, it's a good brunch song :-)
posted by raztaj at 5:07 PM on April 27, 2008

Why not just ask the staff what it is, next time you hear it? I mean, we could be guessing unproductively all day.
posted by flabdablet at 5:10 PM on April 27, 2008 [1 favorite]

Something by Yael Naim? She sings in French, Hebrew, and English on her album.
posted by kimdog at 5:13 PM on April 27, 2008

Specifically the song Pechad.
posted by kimdog at 5:15 PM on April 27, 2008

You could try song tapper.
posted by HeroZero at 5:47 PM on April 27, 2008

I've had brunch twice in the past year in NYC and both times I heard Sympatique by Pink Martini, so I'll make that my totally random stab in the dark guess.
posted by iconomy at 6:00 PM on April 27, 2008

April March perhaps?
posted by rottytooth at 6:15 PM on April 27, 2008

I was gonna say "Lebanese Blonde", by Thievery Corporation, 'cause it meets your description criteria and gets played in every lounge and cafe in Manhattan at least thirty times a week. But yeah, it could be anything from Thievery's The Mirror Conspiracy record or "Un Simple Histoire", from The Richest Man in Babylon.
posted by secret about box at 9:58 PM on April 27, 2008

s/anything/something/
posted by secret about box at 9:59 PM on April 27, 2008

It sounds like it could be Vive la fete, who I believe are Belgian, or maybe there's an off chance it's Carla Bruni, Sarkozy's wife
posted by vodkaboots at 10:36 AM on April 28, 2008