Saint Privat
Saint-Privat is a village in the south of France, small enough that most maps tend to skip it ... Valérie Sajdik has lived there for twenty years, and when she and Klaus Waldeck made a band together they named it after her address ... Tous les jours means every day ... So the song's name and the band's name together say what the record is ... the everyday, in one particular place, sung ...
Waldeck is from Vienna, a producer from the city's electronic and downtempo scene, and Sajdik is a chanson singer ... What they make between them sounds like the music from a French or Italian film of the 1960s that unfortunately never got made ... Waldeck has said he was shaped by a time when film music mattered more than it does now, and by a mixture of elegance and lightness ... He named a Romanian pianist, Eugen Cicero, who played Bach as if it were jazz, as the man behind his way with a piano ...
This is from the record called Tous Les Jours, 2004, the start of the project ... a Vienna studio and a village in the Midi, joined by a piano that thinks it is in a café ...
The size of it is the piano ... classical hands bent toward pop and jazz chords, the Cicero trick, laid under a voice that sings French the way French is spoken in a kitchen ... Every day, the song says ... and it sounds like a day worth repeating ...