Gainsbourg in Antichrist: is there anything she can't do?

Beautiful French actress/songstress Charlotte Gainsbourg has announced details of her third album IRM and released the title track as a free download.

Gainsbourg, who picked up the Best Actress gong at Cannes this year for her role in Lars von Trier’s critically-acclaimed film Antichrist, will release IRM in January. To whet fans’ appetites, the title track is available to download free from her official website www.charlottegainsbourg.com.

The album has been produced by Beck, who brought in his friends , Joey Waronker and James Gadson on drums, Brian LeBarton on keyboards, David Ralicke on trumpet and his own father, David Campbell, to collaborate on various tracks.

Gainsbourg says of the partnership: “We started with ‘Master’s Hands’, which has a sort of African beat and then we did ‘In The End’, which is very melodic and much quieter. ‘Heaven Can Wait’ followed, which is a much more classic pop song. So in that same [first] session we went in three different directions.

Beck ‘s interpretation of the early session echoes Gainsbourg’s: “I pulled a bunch of songs out. And then I wrote a few, with her in mind, but when we spent time together they changed because I got more of a feeling of where she wanted to go. We got in the studio and I could see all the possibilities.�

IRM is released on 25th January 2010 via Because Music