Gamine: a manifesto
the personnel
Claudia sings and writes lyrics, Ian composes and produces.
the music
Melodies, tunes, choruses, romantic, lush, unsettling, unpredictable, classically European...but especially melodies.
the words
Poetry, melodrama, love, death, storytelling.
the image
Miss Claudia B., the reintroduction of glamour into modern popular music, stylish 60's films starring Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly.
the concerts
A piano (preferably grand), a microphone, a spotlight, tears...
the album
Every song a classic.
the philosophy
Gamine are intelligent super-beings; they have doctorates in Economics, Marketing, Politics, Art, Literature, Culture, History, Religion, Philosophy, Music (but not Sociology) and they speak seventy-two languages. They want to entertain, but with style and substance. Caring, sharing, humanist, socialist, spiritual and nice.
the conclusion
Elitism for the Masses!