Carousel

A carousel (American English: from French carrousel and Italian carosello), roundabout (British English), or merry-go-round, is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders. The "seats" are traditionally in the form of rows of wooden horses or other animals mounted on posts, many of which are moved up and down by gearwork to simulate galloping, to the accompaniment of looped circus music. This leads to one of the alternative names in American English, the galloper. Other popular names are jumper, horseabout and flying horses.

Carousels are commonly populated with horses, each horse weighing roughly 100 lbs (45 kg), but may include diverse varieties of mounts, like pigs, zebras, tigers, or mythological creatures such as dragons or unicorns. Sometimes, chairlike or benchlike seats are used as well, and occasionally mounts can be shaped like airplanes or cars.

In a playground, a roundabout or merry-go-round is usually a simple, child-powered rotating platform with bars or handles to which children can cling while riding.

Carrousel (band)

Carrousel is a French-Swiss band which founded in Southern France in Summer 2007. The band officially released their debut album Tandem in February 1, 2010 in France and Switzerland and second album En équilibre followed it in June 18, 2012. Also they released a single titled "J'avais rendez-vous" in November 2012 and took part with this song on Swiss national final in Bodensee, Switzerland to the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 was held in Malmö, Sweden. So, Carrousel finished the national final in the second place with 17.26% of televoting after Heilsarmee's "You and Me" (which won the national final with 37.54% of public voting).

History

2007–2011: Early years and Tandem

In Summer 2007, Sophie Burande from Auvergne, France who is playing an accordion and Léonard Gogniat from Switzerland who got a guitar met in the Southern France. Since then they have never left each other, so Carrousel project started and they took stage for the first time and they had a string of concerts in 2009. By the way, the duo won the Lausanne Radio Active Awards and Poly'Sons Montbrison in same year.

Carrousel (booklet)

Carrousel is a booklet published in 1987 containing three short texts written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1923 for "Karussel", a Russian cabaret.

Content

The three texts are:

"Cantaboff" of course refers to "Cantab." and the author's recent graduation from Trinity College, Cambridge; "Sirine" was Nabokov's occasional French spelling for "Sirin", his early Russian pseudonym.

Brian Boyd regards the poem as "banal", the prose as "masterly".

Publication

The only known previous appearance of these three texts had been within the second issue of a trilingual (German, French, English) brochure, Karussel — Carousal — Carrousel, published in Berlin in 1923 as the prospectus for "Karussel", a Russian theatre travelling to Berlin.