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Artist:	VANNIER, JEAN-CLAUDE
Title:	L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 001CD

2006 domestic US pressing (previously issued by Night & Day in France and Finders Keepers in the UK). "Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson is an inimitable, 45-minute concept LP handcrafted by a bass-driven psychedelic rock group and a heaven-sent 1001 piece orchestral and choral symphony. The album left hip-hop producers alongside progressive rock aficionados crying out for more and more for years to come. This LP was in a league of its very own... or was it? The seldom-sung musical arranger for Melody Nelson, Jean-Claude Vannier, has become one of the most enigmatic names in French-funk; lorded by many as the 'French David Axelrod.' Vannier's name is the lesser-spotted, tell-tale seal of sample-friendly quality when it comes to crate-digging 'en Francais.' And the answers to all the floating mysteries, myths and rumors surrounding the man lay flat between the anonymous gatefold sleeve of an undiscovered conceptual album bizarrely entitled L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches. So here we have it. For collectors and enthusiasts alike looking for that special something, this release contains the extra-special EVERYTHING. Peruse the following genres: psychedelic, classical, soundtracks, jazz, hip-hop, samples, avant-garde, funk. Then place a copy of L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches in each section. Domestic version of Vannier CD includes two bonus tracks and a bonus video of live footage taken from an on-set performance during an Yves Saint Lauren fashion show in 1971!"

Artist:	VANNIER, JEAN-CLAUDE
Title:	Electro Rapide
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 036CD

Subtitled: Experimental Pop Instrumentals From Jean-Claude Vannier's Vintage Vaults. "Electro Rapide is a collection of rare and unreleased archive material from the studio vaults of legendary French orchestral pop composer Jean-Claude Vannier. Taken from the period before and during his revered creative period with Serge Gainsbourg, these tracks reveal rare glimpses of Vannier's self initiated instrumental projects which were crowbarred between an air-tight studio diary as one of Frances most in-demand arrangers and composers of the post Mai 68 generation. Electro Rapide combines a mixture of JCVs familiar trade-mark motifs and stylings from his coveted work for idiosyncratic French pop vocalists (such as Briggitte Fontaine, Claude Nougaro, Leonie and Anna St Clair) with the seldom heard experimental music for ballets, fashion shows as well as his infamous film music (such as the soundtracks for Cannabis and La Horse). Electro Rapide reveals a young Vannier in his embryonic stages before the birth of a true individual orch, pop funk legend, comprising some exclusive and previously unheard tracks alongside music culled from rare library music LPs, kids' records, radio themes and his earliest soundtrack work. This archive is the closest Jean-Claude Vannier fans will get to a lost instrumental LP outside of his previous Finders Keepers Insolitudes release and his conceptual Georges Brassens tribute LP and features his favored long-running session band featuring Arpardys & Brutus Drums percussionist Alain Pierre D'ahan and magma guitarist Claude Engel in their earliest assemblage. Utilizing a vibrant palette of sonic ingenuity JCV combines pulpit percussion, scholastic instruments and a host of oblique international sounds to create a unique breed of French instro pop that went on to influence future generations of international progressive and cinematic music."

Artist:	VANNIER, JEAN-CLAUDE
Title:	Roses Rouge Sang
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 037CD

"Exactly 40 years since the release of Histoire De Melody Nelson (his seminal and essential Serge Gainsbourg collaboration) Jean-Claude Vannier, France's most lorded arranger and composer of orchestral funk-rock and pop returns to the same artistic territory that has since come to represent his most iconic period and continually inspire five inclusive generations of experimental rock luminaries. The signature sound of JCV, complete with his brooding orchestral sweeps, pensive drum-drops, loudly plucked bass and biting clavinet has earned him a firm fixture in the top-ten album lists of virtually everyone with a passing interest in latter-day European rock and conceptual music. But don't call it a comeback. Unlike the many re-dux events or commercial updates of passed classics that we have recently come to expect, the latest LP by Jean Claude Vannier simply extends the authentic vintage winning-formula which he truly owns with utmost attention to every last detail. As pop music and technology changes with time some things are best left in their purest form which is why 40 years later JCV has returned to the same studio hands, with the same musicians and the same crystal clear vision that simply can't be equaled, despite the countless attempts. This all new LP comprises a personnel of the legendary European session players that appeared on classic Vannier & Gainsbourg scores such as Cannabis, La Horse, Slogan and Les Chemins de Katmandu as well as Melody Nelson itself, and his own bizarre and mythical follow-up LP, the truly bizarre 1973 avant-garde ballet L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches (which was finally rescued from obscurity in 2005 by Finders Keepers as the labels debut release). The rhythm section line-up for the album alone reads like a European record collectors wet dream."

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