French musical project Nouvelle Vague, headed by musician-producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux, is a breath of fresh air. Nouvelle Vague means 'new wave' in French, and 'bossa nova' in Portuguese.

The origin of French group Nouvelle Vague’s name is three-pronged. First, of course, it references the famous French school of cinema. Then, the words translate to “nova onda” in Portuguese, which is ...

In March, the Brazilian style of music known as bossa nova made an unexpected appearance on one of the year’s biggest hip-hop albums: Juice WRLD‘s Death Race for Love. Thank Tommy Brown. During a ...

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There may not be a more aptly titled band in pop music at the moment than Nouvelle Vague. In French, the moniker means “new wave.” In Portuguese, the title translates to “bossa nova.” Combined, these ...

The bossa nova wave was one of the first significant impacts on jazz since Miles Davis, Claude Thornhill and Gil Evans restored balance between the ensemble and the soloist in the late 1940s. As ...

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Fusing post-punk’s brooding atmospherics with the lilting sway of bossa nova doesn’t sound like it should work, conceptually. The sounds of Joy Division, the Cure and other bands of the era seem too ...