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Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle

2007 self-titled studio album by Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7880477
Source-derived summary

Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle was a collaboration between French actress Emmanuelle Seigner and Ultra Orange.

Background

The Ultra Orange of this merger is duo Pierre Emery and Gil Lesage, who released two previous albums in France before teaming up with Seigner. Their self-titled album was released on 26 March 2007. They have been likened to such artists as Velvet Underground, Mazzy Star, Sonic Youth, and even Brigitte Bardot.

Discography

Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle

"Sing Sing" – 3:31

"Simple Words" – 4:42

"Rosemary's Lullaby" – 4:57

"Bunny" – 3:06

"Lines of My Hand" – 2:31

"Touch My Shadow" – 3:31

"Don't Kiss Me Goodbye" – 4:15

"Won't Lovers Revolt Now" – 3:30

"Nobody Knows" – 4:30

"The Good from the Bad" – 3:19

"One Day" – 2:34

Notes

The lead single from the album was "Sing Sing", the music video was shot in black and white. It had a limited run on ABCs Rage Music Program.

The song "Don't Kiss Me Goodbye" is featured in the movie Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).

The song "Rosemary's Lullaby" samples the basic tune of the theme from the Roman Polanski film Rosemary's Baby. Emmanuelle Seigner is married to Polanski.

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“Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle” enters the record as 2007 self-titled studio album by Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ultra, Orange and Emmanuelle can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ultra, Orange and Emmanuelle.
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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7880477. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.