"My Mother asked me to buy this for her, to remind her of 1969. After listening to the album, I could hardly bear to part with it....it's compulsive listening, the words are simple yet wonderful, and his voice is a pleasure to hear. I'm starting my collection now!!"
The Outcast
DR Gokhan Sayram | Melbourne, VIC Australia | 10/01/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Le meteque of my childhood... when we were more exposed to the Mediterranian music. Moustaki embodies in his music all aspects of the Mediterranian sea, warmth, love, tenderness, and passion.
A wonderful voice. Sadness without being pitiful. The meteque means the outcast a French friend once told me. Moustaki is someone who is an outcast and proud of himself. He has every reason to be."
Parisforever
ssday@mindspring.com | Ft Lauderdale, Florida United States | 12/13/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I acquired the original lp in paris when I lived there in the sixties and listened to it often over the next two decades - I loved it ! It only recently occurred to me to search for it as a cd- my lp was damaged in a water heater leak. I have not not heard the cd but I expect the technical aspects to be only better, I know the content is perfect.
Susan in Fort Lauderdale"
French Everyman
Scott N. Stone | Washington,, DC USA | 02/17/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Imagine a baritone voice akin to Gordon Lightfoot's, singing songs reminiscent of the most personal and poignant of Peter Paul and Mary's repertoire, and you have an idea of this wonderful French singer. Moustaki, a former lover of Edith Piaf, himself became an icon in France, and is still working at age 71. He is little known in the US but well worth discovering for those with a touch of the romantic in them."