Action

Bosco: Francoise Marche (vocals, eletric guitar, slide guitar, programming);
Stephane Bodin (vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, synthesizer, programming, loops).
Additional personnel includes: Fred Schneider, Templeton Thompson (vocals);
Bertrand Lambrechts (saxophone); Yves Chatin (trumpet); Sergio Nardi (trombone); David Vanbelle (bass); Mitch Pires (drums).
Producers include: Bosco, Nicolas Varak, Laurent "Dizz" Lepagneau.
Engineers include: Stephane Teynie, Fabien Pochet, Nic Hard.
Recorded at Bosco Home Studios, Paris, France; Studio Moliere, Brussels,
Belgium; RPM Sound, New York, New York.
Personnel: Fred Schneider , Sacha (vocals); Amanda, Hollis , Janice (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Nicolas Varak.
Recording information: Bosco Home Studio, Paris, France; RPM Sound Studios, New York, NY; Studio Moliere, Brussels, Belgium.
Publisher: Fred Schneider .
Breaking on U.S. shores hot on the heels of French outfits like Air, Daft Punk, and Mellow, the duo of Stéphane Bodin and Françoise Marché boast a danceable sound that should be all too familiar to fans of any of the aforementioned groups. Taking a healthy dose of disco, a dash of house, a sprinkle of electro-funk, and enough vocoder-processed vocals to make Midnight Starr jealous, Bosco sounds like the last 25 years of dance music jammed into a groove processor, then set on frappé. The band has a colorful personality and an uncanny ear for melodic hooks, which lends tracks like "Satellite" and "Nonstop Nonsense" (which features B-52's frontman Fred Schneider on vocals) an infectiousness that's hard to deny. But their unusual sense of musical simplicity occasionally makes Action feel like a techno novelty, with minimalist jingles like "Mr. Fresh" making Trio's "Da Da Da" sound about as complex as "Bohemian Rhapsody" by comparison. This isn't a bad record by any means, and will almost certainly appeal to fans of Daft Punk in particular, but you might not be able to escape a nagging sense that you've heard it all before. ~ Bret Love