Claude Fontaine Claude Fontaine

Claude Fontaine is an American girl with a French name who never felt like she fit in anywhere she happened to call home, and one particular year she was awash in a grey London fog that matched the fog and grey in her own too-recently broken heart. While living right off Portobello Road, she stumbled into the record store down the street. And in a flash of luck (or fate) that particular record store turned out to be Honest Jons, a long-lived spot for records collected from the furthest edges of the world. Shed never heard those old Studio One and Trojan and Treasure Isle reggae and rocksteady anddub records beforethe same records that got the Clash covering Police And Thieves, and the Slits sharing a bill with Steel Pulse. And shed never heard bossa nova and tropicalia and Brazils incandescent música popular brasileira, either. But instantly, she understood that it was exactly and perfectly everything she didnt know she needed.