La mélodie de la Martinique (The Sound of Martinique)
Duolingo French Podcast
Duolingo
4.6 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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In everyday sounds, Christophe Chassol hears the makings of a song. That refined ear led Chassol to become a renowned musician, and develop a new genre of music. But it was only by returning to his parents’ birthplace in Martinique that he would be able to create his masterpiece.
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| 0:00.0 | Under the name Chassol, Christophe Chassol tours around the world and collaborates with |
| 0:05.9 | the likes of Frank Ocean and Salage. |
| 0:08.8 | He's composed a dozen film scores and had a weekly segment on the classical radio station |
| 0:13.3 | France Music. |
| 0:15.1 | But his most impressive feat is inventing a new art form. |
| 0:30.0 | I try to capture the things that are in my mind. |
| 0:33.4 | Everything I find beautiful. |
| 0:36.1 | But in order to create his breakthrough album Big Sun, Christophe had to revisit his past |
| 0:41.7 | and turn it into something new. |
| 0:44.7 | Big Sun was a very big girl. |
| 0:50.7 | Bienvenue and welcome back to the Dual Lingo French podcast. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm your host, M'Goffein, Boutouwelet. |
| 0:57.5 | Every episode we bring you fascinating true stories to help you improve your French |
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| 1:05.8 | The storyteller will be using intermediate French and I'll be timing in for context in |
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| 1:25.4 | Christophe's parents were born in Martinique and overseas region of France and the French |
| 1:29.5 | West Indies, the anti-Franceese. |
| 1:32.6 | But as a young couple they moved to the French mainland, the French metropolitain. |
| 1:37.6 | In 1963, when my father was 18, he traversed the Atlantic Ocean in Bato. |
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