Charlotte Gainsbourg – review

Somerset House, London"The songs that we sing, do they mean anything to the people we're singing them to?" asks Charlotte Gainsbourg, closing the main part of her show with the 2006 track The Songs That We Sing. Good question. The actor/musician daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin has spent the past hour shepherding her band through a set of tunes comprised mainly of texture and atmosphere, with a figurative fug of Gauloise smoke drifting above. Their "meaning" is debatable, but, as wit...

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