"Jean Claude Vannier is one of the most inventive string arrangers in pop music whose record legacy has been pitiful at best. Until now. Andy Votel and the good folks at Delay 68 and Finders Keepers records have released his debut album ‘L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches' on Delay 68 Records.
But why all the brou-ha-ha? Why? Because if his name is credited on an album, it is bound to be a masterpiece of arrangements. Even if his only contribution to the yeh-yeh pop had been Serge Gainsbourg ‘Histoire de Melody Nelson'.
The Gainsbourg/Vannier connection has always been marked with cool from the beginning. Their first collaborative effort was Cannabis; a film soundtrack starring the french psychedelic Lothario and Jane Birkin. Vaguely reminiscent of Roman Polanksi's 1970 sexual freedom effort, ‘Quoi' only with more blood, sex and death. The score, is a borderline, masterpiece, with gliding psychedelic string arrangements over a whispering Serge through to the french baroque of ‘‘Le Deuzieme homme and the organ and Jane Birkin's butterfly coos ..."
It's the Poptones Record Of The Week
Jean-Claude Vannier
From L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches
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L'Enfant La Mouche Et Les Allumettes .mp3
L'Enfant Au Rayaume Des Mouches .mp3
Petite Agonie De L'Enfant Assassin.mp3
Wonderful to hear this has come out and I'll hunt it down. With this and the Melody clip, you are spoiling us Francophiles. I love the adverts too though!
Posted by: Sarmoung | April 09, 2005 at 07:48 AM