Oct 4, 2017

RhoDeo 1740 Aetix

Hello, alas Tom Petty really left this realm, he had talked of retiring just days ago after finishing his tour, he deserved better..


Today's artist is an inspired Flemish rock musician, entirely led by a tireless desire to seek and to write. The songs of this wandering star have always been a free mix of the French, English and Flemish languages. In the saddle since 1970 and with some fifty albums to his name, Arno is constantly renewed, charming us with his strong lyrics and his stirring melancholy. This broken-voiced crooner is a wild animal on stage, indestructible and always ready to leap when you least expect it. .........N'Joy

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It was in Ostend in the Flemish part of Belgium that Arno Hintjens was born on May 21, 1949. His mother was into the latest things and liked Greco and rock'n'roll. As for his father, an aviator and mechanic in the aeronautic industry, he was someone who liked politics and American literature.

In the 1960's, Arno travelled to Asia and made the ritual visit to Kathmandu. We also caught a glimpse of him singing in St. Tropez, on the Greek islands, or in Amsterdam. Undeniably turned onto music, he sang for the first time on stage during a summer music festival in Ostend in 1969. Following this he began his career in bands, among them FreckleFace between '72 and '75. He played the harmonica. After a unique album which they produced themselves, Arno left the group for another, Tjens Couter. It was in fact a duo with Paul Decouter. Like FreckleFace their repertoire was mostly rhythm 'n'blues and in any case, very Anglo-Saxon.

Around 1977, Arno and Decouter formed TC Bland with Ferre Baelen and Rudy Cloet. The group had a certain fame and toured around Europe a lot. But in '80, joined by Serge Feys on keyboards this group became TC Matic, one of the most innovative European rock groups of the period. Quickly Decouter was replaced by Jean-Marie Aerts, who would remain one of Arno's travelling buddies. Europeans, they were indeed that. Their tours took them regularly across Scandinavia, England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. During the summer of 1981, their first namesake album was released. Then, on EMI records, they recorded several albums, among them "L'Apache" in 1982. Some of their songs like "Elle adore le noir" or "Putain Putain" are still considered today as pillar compositions of that time. In 1985, they were the opening act for the Simple Minds during their European tour. But '85 also marked the end of TC Matic who would forever cease to exist in '86.

Arno set out on a solo career with his first namesake album as early as '86. Recorded on a bet with the musicians from TC Matic and entirely composed by Arno, the album was primarily in English. One French song came out of the lot "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" whose only words are… "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" repeated a good forty times. During the years spent with different groups, Arno made himself a solid name in the music scene. His talent as an artist is widely recognised. As for his wild personality full of ups and downs, it puts him among the most noticed of the rock scene. In his new solo life, Arno didn't have much difficulty asserting his talent on the music scene.

In 1988 he released a second album "Charlatan" which was still primarily in English. We found however "Le Bon Dieu" a sublime cover of the most famous Belgian singers Jacques Brel. Two years later, set up in Paris, he released "Ratata". From this record written almost entirely with Jean-Marie Aerts, we recall "Lonesome Zorro" and its heady melody maintained by its chorist Beverly Brown. On June 26, 1990, Arno went on the Parisian stage at the Cigale.

In '91, Arno works on his companion Marie-Laure Beraud's album. At the same time on his solo route he didn't look down upon the idea of doing some group work. So, in 1991, he found himself with Charles et les Lulus for an eponymous album. Surrounded by Roland Van Campenhout and Adriano Cominotto, he redid some blues classics by Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Rufus Thomas. From the blues he went straight to Nashville to record a new album in 1993 "Idiots Savants". After Brel, Arno borrowed "Les Filles du bord de mer" from another famous Belgian singer Adamo. This new cover confirmed his undeniable talent to give new life to old songs. This latest remains one of his flagship songs.

After Charles et les Lulus, came a new group digression with Arno et les Subrovnicks in '94. Joined by old friends Adriano Cominotto (ex-Lulu), Rudy Cloet (ex-TC Matic) and Geoffrey Burton and Francois Garny, Arno recorded the album "Water" in the South West of France. Still in '94 Arno got started in cinema soundtracks with "Personne ne m'aime" by Frenchwoman Marion Vernoux. The cinema milieu wasn't unknown to him because in '78 in Belgium he wrote the music for the film "Le Concert d'un homme seul".

After a 20-year career primarily in English, Arno released his first album fully recorded in French in 1995. Thirteen tracks co-written with Jean-Marie Aerts or Adriano Cominotto. We find the cover of Brel's "le Bon Dieu" as well as two new songs "Elle pense à lui" by Charlélie Couture and particularly "Comme à Ostende" written by Léo Ferré and Jean-Roger Caussimon. Arno reached the top of the charts with "Les Yeux de ma mere". The album favoured the mix of genres, from tango to jazz to blues to which Arno's voice always gives a special texture. December 13th, Arno played the Bataclan in Paris before starting off his tour around France and Switzerland and before he took off for the United States where he sang in New York and Austin, Texas.

The following year we found Arno in the cinema world but this time as an actor. He played the homosexual swimming instructor in "Camping Cosmos" by Belgian director Jan Bucquoy who also directed "La vie sexuelle des Belges" which attracted a lot of attention. Back on stage in October '96 with an evening at the Olympia on the 7th. A live album was released the following year, "Arno (en concert à la Française)" which took the best moments from his tours. An album in English was also released in '97 "Give me the gift" but it was only destined for the American market. Finally in '97, French actor Michel Piccoli gave him a role in "Alors Voilà". Arno also wrote the soundtrack.

After Charles et les Lulus, Arno went to Charles and the White Trash Blues in 1998. Within this new occasional group, where we find guitarist Geoffrey Burton he gives us an album between blues and rock and whose covers, now part of his repertoire, go from the Kinks to Nina Simone. In '99 it's again with a cover song that we find him. But this time it's as a guest on the album by American Beverly Jo Scott, who lives in Belgium. Together they did an entertaining track which is a synthesis of "la Fille du Père Noël" by Dutronc and "Jean Genie" by Bowie.

Arno returned to the music news in August '99 with a new album entitled "A Poil Commercial". Recorded in Arno's habitual blues-rock vein, "A Poil Commercial" brought the singer's husky "whisky-and-cigarettes" vocals even further to the fore. The singer followed on with a tour spread over the year 2000 and including 170 concerts. And, after a last concert in Prague, the Parisian Cité de la Musique gave him carte blanche to put on a show of his own choice. Alone on stage with his usual band, he gave a very warm and tasteful 'bal rock', which was grandly applauded by a public of loving fans. A month later a compilation summarising his 30-year career was released.

Arno stormed back into the music news on 26 February 2002 with an album full of tender rock ballads entitled "Arno Charles Ernest" (the singer's real name). The 15 tracks on the album, recorded in a more acoustic vein than usual, included a duet with Jane Birkin ("Elisa") and a cover of the Rolling Stones classic "Mother's Little Helper". Shortly after the album release Arno kicked off a new tour with a concert at the Olympia in Paris on 8 March 2002.

Arno, the insatiable wordsmith, was back at the forefront of the music scene in May 2004 with a second album written entirely in French. The album, entitled French Bazaar, was the 26th of his career. Shot through with the lucidity and acerbic wit with which Arno has made his name, French Bazaar proves that the Flemish singer – who has just turned 55 – is still full of life and vitality.With it, he again recorded solely in French, and earned the Victoire de la Musique award for Best Pop-Rock Album for his efforts. Arno returned to film via 2006's Komma, the first in a series of big-screen projects including Ex-Drummer and J'ai Toujours Voulu Être un Gangster. He finally returned to music in the spring of 2007 with Jus de Box.

2010's "Brussld" is one of Arno's best works, its a live album, especially "Live in Brussels," mostly because his band mates cut loose and do such amazing things on stage (especially the lead guitar player). The songs on "Brussld" are quite varied, but remain pure Arno. In 2012 Arno released Future Vintage, 4 years later his thusfar latest album say the light of day, Human Incognito.


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A moderate album , possibly too soon after dissolving TC Matic.It seemed like Arno put in the eggs he could not lose at TC Matic on this debut. Maybe, he had better brooded a little longer

When the rock is an Arno classic? A typical number too, because on this album has rock lost the roll, as Arno himself sings. In addition to the soulful radiohit Forget the Cold Sweat and the typical, inconvenient Arno single Yooh. These are beautiful songs with a sometimes experimental music line. So musically, a quality album that would follow .



  Arno Hintjes - Arno   (flac  211mb)

01 Forget The Cold Sweat 7:10
02 Down And Out 2:56
03 Congo (Instrumental) 3:40
04 Play The Guitar Boy 3:05
05 Miss Nell (Instrumental) 3:06
06 When The Rock 4:22
07 Qu'est Ce Que C'est? 3:39
08 Come Back 4:04
09 Yooh 2:44
10 La Bella Rossa (Instrumental) 2:02

Arno Hintjes - Arno     (ogg    82mb  )

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Bluesy, Funky, swinging and solid rocking songs ... a tango'tje ... Chanson .. In short, Arno at his most versatile and therefore at his best. Opener "Jive to the Beat" is a quiet dragging song in which Arno is crooning as the best. The accordion goes in, follows a tough rhythm, Arno's debuting song that invades .. and on the ground the electric guitar, and later a sober synthesizer ... the modest guitar parties here ... are just in place ... A masterful opener of what could be a beautiful album ... Also watch the accompaniment of accordion, the bossanova rhythm, and the mini-guitar solo ...

"Le Bon Dieu", is a more than meritorious cover of the great Jaques Brel. Arno truly honours this song, a Parisian accordion, Arno's rusty voice, loud drums ... and the threatening synthesizer in the background .. and do not forget the beautiful understated guitar work ... class. And also a highlight!
Close your eyes and imagine that you are in a club very late, with very little light, and then see this song on stage. The particular bluesy "Trouble In Mind", which mainly plays slide guitar, percussion and a seemingly demented organ, and of course Arno's vocals, is a tradition that picked up Arno heir. "Shoutback" is the perfect marriage between the former TC-Matic and what Arno does now ... a solid rock singing singer where not the electric guitars but the electrically-amplified acoustic guitars and bass make the tone ...

The album ends as magically as it starts ... "You're welcome, you're welcome, you're welcome, and you've got a problem ... "A song about ... the fleshly sin and the sex organ of Jesus Christ? "J'ia vu le zizi à Jesus Chr. est est plus grand q'une allumette, il laiert pour faire pipi ..." "Le Tango de la Peau" is as the title itself indicates a tango song, also a small hit with high companion here in this country ...

As bonus numbers are alternative versions of "Bathroom Singer", "Take Me where You Sleep at Night" and "Tango de la Peau", slightly alternative versions that are even fun to hear, but I do not really add anything ...
Concluding a beautiful album by Arno Hintjens. His second solo record, and immediately one of his best. Perfect work by Arno, Tom Waits would be proud to have released this on his own!..



Arno Hintjes - Charlatan (flac 288mb)

01 Jive To The Beat 4:35
02 Take Me Where You Sleep At Night 4:00
03 Bathroom Singer 3:35
04 Let's Go To Heaven (2.1.3.4.6.5.7) 3:48
05 Le Bon Dieu 2:34
06 Black Doll 4:06
07 Trouble In My Mind 3:51
08 Shoutback 3:23
09 Fun, Money & Pleasure 3:00
10 Tango De La Peau 3:09
11 Bathroom Singer 3:54
12 Take Me Where You Sleep At Night 3:48
13 Tango De La Peau 3:16

Arno Hintjes - Charlatan   (ogg  107mb)

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This is a beautiful album ! The sublime shattering Lonesome Zorro, followed immediately by the dancer Dance till you drop, the delicious Mon Sissoyen, the very separate Ratata, the compulsory French chanson with the play on conserves, Marie Tu M'as (this must even understand Dutch!), The singalong number Music is the Dope and especially, especially the best song of the record: Whoop That Thing (seems to me double and sexually charged) when it's FUNKT like the beasts! Ratata is a super album



Arno Hintjes - Ratata   (flac 210mb)

01 Lonesome Zorro 3:43
02 Dance Till You Drop 3:16
03 Mon Sissoyen 2:52
04 Ratata 3:45
05 I've Done My Best 3:51
06 Whoop That Thing 3:37
07 Marie Tu M'As (Marie Thumas) 3:12
08 I'm Not There 3:34
09 I Can't Stand It 3:37
10 Music Is The Dope 3:52

Arno Hintjes - Ratata   (ogg  89mb)

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