"There's something new and incredible happening under the melancholy sun of French chanson." This was how the bi-weekly bible of French rock 'Les Inrockuptibles' announced the arrival of La Tordue's third album 'Le Vent t'Invite' in April 2000.

Singer and lyricist BenoÓt Morel met multi-instrumentalist Pierre Payan and formed La Tordue ('The Tortoise's don't ask why!) more than a decade ago in the bars of Belleville, a savory working class district of Paris where the great Edith Piaf spent her black and blue childhood in the 1920s.

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