Canada’s Béatrice Martin (aka “Coeur de Pirate” and “Armistice”)
In our continuing efforts to pay homage to our French-Canadian roots, we introduce (we surmise) to you Canadian singer, Beatrice Martin, who has been making huge inroads (over 10,000,000 hits for her video below of Comme des Enfants) in both her native French and English tongues (she’s Canadian after all). Martin has made her mark in Canada and other Francophone environs as “Coeur de Pirate” (Pirate Heart) and elsewhere as a part of the English side-project, “Armistice.”
Toronto-based music blog, Chromewaves, pointed to Martin, Couer de Pirate and Armistice in their post today in which Chromewaves rave-viewed the Couer de Pirate show in Toronto last Friday (in support of the band’s brand new album, “Blonde“). Chromewaves said the following about the new album: “The girlish, chanson-derived charms of Coeur de Pirate have blossomed into widescreen, swinging-’60s full-band pop gems with Martin functioning less as a singer-songwriter than a full-on bandleader.”
To begin to get a feel for Martin and crews, first check out Armistice’s (with Mariachi El Bronx) official video for their song, Mission Bells (followed by the song’s lyrics). And then check out Couer de Pirate’s humorous/inventive official video for new song, Adieu (off of Blonde), and the official video for previously mentioned ballad, Comme des Enfants .
“MISSION BELLS
I can still feel you there
Are we tangled in time somewhere
And it’s been a while since you’ve been ‘round here
Since you locked me in some devastated stare
Oh then we could ring out like mission bells
Across the yard we knew so well
Come on come on give me my turn
To sing once more
And let it burn
‘Cause I’m
I’m just no good
So leave me, as you should
And surrender to some unholy war
‘Cause we forgot what we first came here for
Oh then we could ring out like mission bells
Across the yard we knew so well
Come on come on give me my turn
To sing once more
And let it burn
Come on come on come on now you sing it
Laying me low in bells that come ringing and,
We could ring out like mission bells
Across the yard we knew so well
Come on come on give me my turn
To sing once more
And let it burn”