A programme on a local Zurich radio airs what it calls “acoustic porn,” hoping to inspire people to make love, a report say.

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Radio porn aims to get the Swiss grinding

A programme on a local Zurich radio airs what it calls “acoustic porn,” hoping to inspire people to make love, a report say.

Published: 9 June 2011 08:54 CEST

Radio porn aims to get the Swiss grinding

The night programme on 104,1 or 88.2 megahertz in Zurich, headed by producer Oliver Scotoni, features erotically-tinged music and sounds at midnight for five hours, said a report on the popular 20 Minuten newspaper.

Aimed at kicking off the International Radio Festival, the programme is seen as a “countermeasure to the internet porn culture,” the paper quotes Scotoni as saying.

“With me, there are no pictures, but only selected acoustics which inspire the audience,” he said. These acoustics include porn movies soundtrack from the 70s, which according to Scotoni have more “value” than “cheap music” in today’s sex movies, the paper said.

Other sounds include disco classics such as “Love to love you” by Donna Summer or erotically-named reggae, such as “Play with Your Pussy” or “Doctor Dick.”

“I hope that as many Zurich people as possible will make love, this would bring a nice energy to the city,” Scotoni was quoted as saying by the paper.

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New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday's death

Hallyday, blessed with a powerful husky voice and seemingly boundless energy, died in December 2017, aged 74, of lung cancer after a long music and acting career.

After an estimated 110 million records sold during his lifetime – making him one of the world’s best-selling singers -Hallyday’s success has continued unabated beyond his death.

Almost half of his current listeners on Spotify are under the age of 35, according to the streaming service, and a posthumous greatest hits collection of “France’s favourite rock’n’roller”, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Leo
Smet, sold more than half a million copies.

The two new songs, Un cri (A cry) and Grave-moi le coeur (Engrave my heart), are featured on two albums published by different labels which also contain already-known hits in remastered or symphonic versions.

Un cri was written in 2017 by guitarist and producer Maxim Nucci – better known as Yodelice – who worked with Hallyday during the singer’s final years.

At the time Hallyday had just learned that his cancer had returned, and he “felt the need to make music outside the framework of an album,” Yodelice told reporters this week.

Hallyday recorded a demo version of the song, accompanied only by an acoustic blues guitar, but never brought it to full production.

Sensing the fans’ unbroken love for Hallyday, Yodelice decided to finish the job.

He separated the voice track from the guitar which he felt was too tame, and arranged a rockier, full-band accompaniment.

“It felt like I was playing with my buddy,” he said.

The second song, Grave-moi le coeur, is to be published in December under the artistic responsibility of another of the singer’s close collaborators, the arranger Yvan Cassar.

Hallyday recorded the song – a French version of Elvis’s Love Me Tender – with a view to performing it at a 1996 show in Las Vegas.

But in the end he did not play it live, opting instead for the original English-language version, and did not include it in any album.

“This may sound crazy, but the song was on a rehearsal tape that had never been digitalised,” Cassar told AFP.

The new songs are unlikely to be the last of new Hallyday tunes to delight fans, a source with knowledge of his work said. “There’s still a huge mass of recordings out there spanning his whole career,” the source said.

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