soleil rare 21 - old tapes.

Classic and weird. 

Alain Goraguer - La Femme. 

Besides composing music for gym records, lending his orchestra and talents to acts like Serge Gainsbourg, Alain Goraguer also got involved in this crazy adventure : "La Planète Sauvage".

Awarded at the Festival de Cannes in 1973, the movie is now better known through its soundtrack. It's psychedelic orientation shooked the world of music at the time. The original issue now goes for 120 € and more. 

A few record diggers sampled this album, including Jay Dee, Madlib, ASP...  

On "La Femme", the atmosphere is heavy and dark. Feel the genius. 

Sven Libaek - Mrs Benson. 

Sven Libaek was born in Norway. In his twenties, he toured in Australia, then chose to live there, and to acquire the citizenship. Libaek is well known in the small world of movie scoring, and his talent is undeniable. Just check, besides "Nickel Queen", "Inner Space" and "Solar Flares", his absolute masterpieces. 

"Mrs Benson" is a short track, mellow on the horn and loud on the bass. A fine interlude. 

By the way, I never heard of the movie, I guess it never reached success outside Australia. 

Fabio Fabor - Parallelotropic 1.

The title of the album says it all : it's about collages here. 99% of the listeners will judge it useless. I think it's... funny. Somehow. And courageous. I guess at that time you could record and print anything when you were labelled as a library music producer. 

Ennio Morricone - Placaggio. 

How to make a soundtrack compilation without mentioning the master, Ennio Morricone ? 

This track is made of two parts, with two different moods. The first one is quite unusual for Morricone : funky drums and bass, random screams (really scary by the way - it makes it sound like a horror flick), and strange harassing sounds all the way. The second part is more Morriconian : psych feeling, calm at the beginning, then blury and out of control. 

Michel Colombier - L'Usine. 

Part of the incredible team of French scorers, very active from the 1960's to the 1990's, a frequent collaborator of Serge Gainsbourg (yes, another one), Michel Colombier is nothing less than a legend. 

Prog, funk and psych at the same time, Colombier introduced the spirit of the French early 1970's in this soundtrack. 

"L'Usine" starts with a dope drum break, and follows like a symphony. Just picture Belmondo's charisma over the track and you get the spirit. 

Eric Framond - Ecole Maternelle. 

Eric Framond is Camille Sauvage, a French clarinet player turned into library music composer.

This is definitely library music : no clear purpose, experimentation to the fullest, and a strange but good feeling of freedom. Drums, piano, synths, guitars and other elements make it a fun moment. 

 François de Roubaix - Où Est Passé Tom ?

Once again, a music composer outshined a movie, at least that's how history remembers it. Frankly, I known nothing of this "Où Est Passé Tom ?" movie, released in 1971. But I know about the music, beautifully composed by François de Roubaix. Probably one of his most emotional tracks, supported by a pan flute that gives it a South American feeling. 

This track has different periods, and will tease your emotions for a bit more than 5 minutes. A delight. 

The Doors - Opening : The End. 

I decided to give this track its original purpose : making the end of a compilation. I can understand why Coppola chose it for the beginning of his movie (by the way, "Apocalypse Now" is easily in my top 3) but whatever... 

This whole soundtrack is crazy : it's made of a lot of spoken interludes, taken from the movie. But you have that track, the chopper sound, the wonderful crazy Indian feeling... I guess no one did it better since The Doors disbanded. Drugs for good.