C'est La Vie is the third studio album by Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 singer and songwriter J. C. Schütz

J. C. Schütz

Johan Christher Schütz is a Swedish singer, musician and songwriter. Since 2010 he uses the pseudonym Peacebird, thus advocating pacifism, direct democracy, social equality and human rights....

, released in December 2008 in Japan, and in May 2009 world

World

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wide.

All songs are written, arranged and produced by J. C. Schütz. This international

International

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 edition of C'est La Vie has five of the songs in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, whereas the original Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 version, C'est La Vie - 11 sånger på svenska (11 songs in Swedish), has all songs performed in Swedish.

The musicians playing on C'est La Vie include award

Award

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ed Swedish instrumentalists such as Olle Linder (bass, drums and percussion), Roman Andrén (rhodes & keyboards), Karin Hammar (trombone), Stefan Persson (trumpet), and a pandeiro loop originally played by Sebastian Notini.

Along with the recording

Recording

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 in 2008, Terrinha Records also made a documentary

Documentary film

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 about the recordings, also including a part with Schütz singing acoustic versions of the songs. The subtitled documentary is freely available on his blog

Blog

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and on youtube.

Track listing

1. "C'est la vie"
2. "Hey it's gonna be ok"
3. "Kan vi hjälpa att vi älskar att dansa"
4. "As if it's never taken place"
5. "Skuggor"
6. "Jabuticaba"
7. "Allt har sin tid"
8. "Balans"
9. "Hur ska man glömma"
10. "Svar"
11. "I guess it's ok"
12. "Quintessencia (club edit)" - bonus track
13. "As if it's never taken place (acoustic edit)" - bonus track

External links

• The documentary about C'est La Vie in 6 parts on youtube