First Aid Kit and Augustifamiljen performing Kate & Anna McGarrigle's Complainte pour Ste. Catherine on quiz show "På Spåret" December 2, 2016. This song is part of the quiz. Still image credit Instagram @kristianluuk.
Incroyable !! This is incredible !!! Ces Suédoises en sont venues aux soeurs McGarrigle par Emmylou Harris, qui est une grande amie des McGarrigle. These two Swedish ladies came upon the McGarrigle sisters through Emmylou Harris who is a great friend of the McGarrigle sisters. It's such a happiness to see that Kate and Anna's songs are still played around....C'est un vrai bonheur de voir que les chansons de Kate et Anna sont encore chantées......Merci....Thank you...
Fantastic! I'm a fan of First Aid Kit since 2014 ( Stay Gold) and the McGarrigle sisters since 1980. Je suis du Québec, de Montréal, francophone. Le seul endroit au monde ou cette chanson pouvait être composée, chantée en français par des anglophones...et maintenant réinterprétée par des Suédoises!
First Aid Kit is incredibile ! The last time I listened to it I was 10 years old :) Amazing ! A good interpretation of Les Soeurs McGarrigle. Vous êtes très talentueuses First Aid Kit ❤
I really like First Aid Kit and the songs which they choose to cover. I knew that I had heard this song in the distant past, and that was confirmed when I saw that the song was originally sung by my fellow Canadians, the McGarrigle sisters. Check out the First Aid Kit concert covering Leonard Cohen. Extremely well done.
I am 64 years old and was 12 when The Beatles hit and changed the whole landscape musically. I wish I was 12 again, because these two girls are The Beatles of this generation, creating their own unique sound based on what they have learned from their musical heroes. Damn they are so good it's scary.
This sound in this video is pretty much a faithful rendition of a 1976 song except the intro which is from a 1993 song. To me it doesn't seem like they put their own spin on it.
Their voices are even stronger, and I love the repertoire they are building! This arrangement is great, excellent trumpeter/leader, marvelous ending. Clearly Klara and Johanna are dedicated listeners as well as performers, and they and their team have found some beauties to cover..
@@dexterbeef1132 There is a clip from Montreal when they do "Heart lika a wheel". 5 k views on that clip is a joke, one of my favorit FAK clip. it's short, quality not so good .
C'est tellement bon de les entendre parler Français. So nice to hear them speaking(singing) french. Their prononciations are good, may be easier while singing, but still.
@@SeverityOne in what way is their accent strange? Its not a French French accent, but then again they're Canadians, and they grew up in a village in Quebec - about a mile outside if Montreal . Their accent is a rural Quebecan accent and not that weird, if you exclude the fact that theu're voice are very unique in and of themselves regardless of language, but I suppose if you assume they would sound like frenchmen then it's strange.
@@countrymusicandcher8593 Well, it sounds weird when you're used to French or perhaps Walloon accent . It's almost like it's French pronounced by a North American native English speaker. It struck me when I saw a video of someone in Lac-Mégantic (my apologies if I remembered the name incorrectly) and the way the filmer said "oh non, le train". In metropolitan French, it sounds like "treh", but in Quebequois French pretty much like in English.
@@SeverityOne Severity One Yeah I can see what you mean. I have thought about that at times, too, and I guess without something to compare it too you have a point in it having a very "english" sound to it. But If you for example listen to "Porte en arriere" with them and Emmylou Harris - who really is an english native that is in no way bilingular - you can really hear the diffrence in an American attempting French (though she does it quiet well) and a Quebecan speaking their native language (or one of them, as the McGarrigle sisters had a bilingular heritage with a Fremch-Canadian mother and English speaking father). They're similar accents but far from the same.
This has more likes than the McGarrigle's video. I hope everyone who liked it also listened to the other. This is well done, and a completely different vibe. Well done. I guess I grew up with the dour version, and like it a bit better. Sometimes, change is good...
One of my favourite songs of all time, and you have done it very very well. Hats off to the bass player here, too, because the original bass parts (by Tony Levin!) are pretty unorthodox, and inconspicuously brilliant nonetheless. I love you for picking this song.
Wow these girls sound as good as they look. A great band behind them and what a super compliment to the McGarrigles. That First Aid Kit name leaves a lot to be desired though.
Fantastic! My only criticism would be that they need to work on the blend with the harmonies. Kate and Anna blended like a machine. It was so satisfying to listen to
@ Richard Wallace : a very good thing! This song is quintessentially Canadian, it has to be sung with a Montréal accent, and the girls do it perfectly. They sound exactly like Québec natives, it's absolutely amazing! They also replicate flawlessly the distinctive pronunciation of the McGarrigle sisters, mixing a hint of Anglo-Canadian intonation with old-fashioned countryside French-Canadian rolled 'r's (not too difficult, it's just like standard Swedish "r"). Just one small error: at 1:05 they say standard French "froi(d)" instead of colloquial Canadian French "frett'". No big deal.
hagst27 Yes, le « frett » en bas de trente en dessous de zéro, je ne me rappelais pas de ce détail. Merci de me l’avoir fait remarquer! N’empêche que je suis épatée que ces belles chansons du folklore des sœurs Kate and Anna McGarrigle soient rendues en Suède!! Excellente performance! Étant native de Montréal, ma mère faisait jouer ce disque très, très souvent. Ça me rappelle de très beaux souvenirs! Les chanteuses ont en plus la même intonation que les sœurs McGarrigle!! Épatant!
Much as I like First Aid Kit, in this case I prefer the Kate and Anna McGarrigle original. Particularly the 1975 album version - its more sparse arrangement makes it more intense somehow. That said, I hope First Aid Kit keep looking to add McGarrigle sister material to their repertoire, as it suits their style and voices well.
Just starting to discover First Aid Kit, but I am wondering whether it is kind of their "signature" to let the band play a "fake" intro? I also noticed it in another performance.
To my ears, they don't sound particularly Quebecois. It sounds more like Metropolitan French as pronounced (sung) by someone whose native language is a Germanic language, and again to my ears, that's how Quebecois French sounds. Don't get me wrong, it's probably because Metropolitan French's orthography and phonology have very little to do with one another, and I'd hazard a guess that Quebecois French sounds more like 17th century French. But in the way they pronounce "vingt", for example, as opposed to how Kate & Anna pronounce it, is very Metropolitan: the way we get taught in school in Europe.
