Daft Piaf Douze brings you our usual magic mix with Haitian folk, French post punk, a pop song featuring Angel Haze no less and last but not least a brand new track from Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains!
Film of the week is Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, a startling and thrilling film from 1966 with a classic soundtrack from Ennio Morricone of the Dollars trilogy fame. Based on real events just a decade previous, this film was highly controversial in France for its stark and unflinching depiction of the intricacies of the decolonisation of Algeria - only half a century ago.
(note: as usual I drop in brainless things now and then, the biggest one this time about the influx of Pieds-Noirs being the impetus for the mass building of HLM in the 60s - other immigration had an effect also obvs arg)
