Black Trombone

This song from the French songwriter, poet, composer and artist Serge Gainsbourg features a jazzy trombone. It is the second song from his 1962 LP calles 'No. 4'. But other cd's also have this song on their tracklist.

The song goes about a woman driving him a bit mad in a night-life setting. He describes her womanly attributes and her effect on his mind and feelings. This song is of a poetic nature and the musical style serves the meaning of the song very well. When I hear this song I image a story. I see myself sitting in a metropolitan nightclub some 40 years ago. People talking and whispering, the smoke of cigars and fine cigarettes in the air. And amidst them all there is one woman catching my eye. Wearing a black dress that comes to her knees. She has a dark red lipstick, black hair and eyes that can enamour a man.

I walk to her, but when blogging I leave the rest to my imagination.
Dear reader I hope you can follow me in this setting ;-).

The animated video is made with blender. Its a freeware program you can find on http://www.blender.org/ but it gives a server 500 error when I surf to this link (strange, I think they will fix it soon).

A grasp of Serge Gainsbourg on the web:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Gainsbourg
http://gainsbarre.typepad.com/
http://www.gainsbourg.org/
http://www.myspace.com/forserge
http://www.francevision.com/nsltr/vf14/gains.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006092/
http://www.slipcue.com/music/pop/france/gainsbourg.html