Voyager and Valerie Dore

[imomus]

I'm preparing a new batch of live shows just now, which means making new backing tracks of songs I don't often perform, songs from former incarnations of Momus which nevertheless might fit a set of the new material. Over the last 24 hours I've been working on a new version of Voyager, the title track from my 1992 album. Here it is, in a version with vocals. The spacecraft it celebrates is still travelling endlessly, still operational, "making it NASA's longest-lasting mission". A bit like Momus, really.

Voyager 2006 (4.5MB stereo mp3 file, 4mins 55secs)

And here's another song I like, a song I first heard standing with my friend Davide in a coffee shop in Venice last year. It's "Get Closer", the 1985 Italodisco hit by Valerie Dore.

Get Closer

In fact, I recorded it the very first time I heard it, just so I could track the song down. The result is a rather lovely field-recording full of Italian conversation, with the radio playing in the background. Italodisco in context!

Wikipedia on Valerie Dore: "Dora Carofiglio (born May 28, 1962 in Monaco) was a popular Italian disco singer during the 1980s. She made records under the stage name Valerie Dore and had several hit singles including "The Night", "Get Closer", and "It's So Easy" which were released on ZYX Music. She was also lead vocalist of the disco band Novecento. Later, the Valerie Dore name was used by singers Monica Stucchi, and Simona Zanini on the album "The Legend" (released 1986, EMI), which dealt with King Arthur and related tales. Zanini also sang in Radiorama and Doctor's Cat."

The Valerie Dore song about King Arthur is terrible. But wait, isn't Wikipedia telling us that that was a different Valerie Dore? Italodisco is a bit like Morning Musume; the faces keep changing even if the name remains the same. Confusing.

Comments

Voyager

[sing123.livejournal.com]

I love this song. Thanks for the inspiration Momus. Is there a way I can get a copy of this?

Take Care
-Sing

Re: Voyager

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Voyager is on my Voyager album from 1992, which is out of print, but the original recording of the track is on Cherry Red's compilation "Forbidden Software Timemachine: Best of the Creation Years", which you can order here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Forbidden-Software-Timemachine-Creation-1987-1993/dp/B00009NOI8).

If anyone wants the Valerie Dore track, it's here (http://www.zyx.de/index.cfm?template=artist.cfm&artist_id=3245&tontraeger_vinyl=0), on her own Best Of on ZYX Music.

Re: Voyager

[(Anonymous)]

Is it illieganl for you to post mp3 of Voyager on the internet?

Re: Voyager

[imomus.livejournal.com]

You can hear a snatch of the original version here (http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/mediaplayer.asp?ean=5013929150928&z=y&track=12&disc=2). At appalling low resolution. I don't actually have a copy to hand, so I can't mp3 it here. I hardly have any of my own records!

Re: Voyager

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Actually, I just found a copy, so here it is in its full Italodisco splendour, the 1992 version of Voyager:

Voyager (http://imomus.com/momusvoyager.mp3)

It's big and shiny! Actually, it doesn't sound bad at all. Melodrama!

Re: Voyager

[(Anonymous)]

thanks but i ment the whole actual album. Are you allowed or has oomeone else the copytight?

Re: Voyager

[(Anonymous)]

I, too, want to say thanks for today's MP3s. And in my opinion Beowolf (http://imomus.com/beowulf.mp3) is a (ha!) killer track. I don't feel completely at ease with the passages about "disabled loos" -- though in this context it can probably be justified with deflating heroics -- but musically it is unimpeachable. I've been listening a lot to it in the last days.

FrF