Stumbling into one of my favorite local music shops in Santa Monica, Hear Music on the Promenade, I became mesmerized by the track blasting from the surround sound. One of the salesman pointed to the large TV screen.

“It’s Wax Tailor‘s ‘Que Sera’,” he said. “His album, Tales of the Forgotten Melodies, has been our biggest seller this week.”

Wax Tailor, born JC Le Saout, released this debut album in 2005 on the French label Lab’Oratoire. It took nearly a full year to hit stores in the States (on DECON).

The spooky and organic flows of the entire album is some of the most phenomenal music I have heard since, well, the great composers of the past century, i.e. Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Most of the album is instrumental, mixed with a few key lines from cult classic films of the 1940′s, i.e. Alfred Hitchcock, while layered with jazz, soul, hip-hop, and blues.

On “Damn That Music Made My Day” Wax vents for fifty seconds by mixing lyrics from early hip-hop legends, i.e. Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, and A Tribe Called Quest. “Our Dance” features the soothing vocals of the one, the only Parisian Charlotte Savary. The Others bless us with their presence on deux (two) tracks; “Where My Heart’s At” and “Walk the Line.”

Check out the video for “Our Dance” (courtesy of YouTube.com).