Name: La bête noire / Paris N’Existe Pas
Brand: Jean-Claude Vannier

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FKR109LP

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black

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5060099507625

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Jean-Claude Vannier

Genre GB

Soundtracks

Label GB

Finders Keepers

From deep in the vaults of the Parisian composer who arguably created the stylistic blueprint for decades of orchestral French funk and symphonic psychedelia, “the arranger’s arranger” Jean-Claude Vannier (<i>Histoire de Melody Nelson / L’Enfant Assassin des Mouches</i>) finally liberates two previously unreleased and fabled film soundtracks that mark significant milestones in the career of this legendary composer and his close connection to the French free jazz scene. 

Comprised on this one vinyl disc you will find the only existing original historic recordings to his first ever 1968 collaboration with serge Gainsbourg as well as the entire lost musical score for Vannier’s first major star-studded solo film commission which followed the Gainsbourg years and a fruitful decade as one of France’s most in-demand arrangers and songwriters. These two scores, for Vannier’s oft type-cast commissions for “drugsploitation” dramas (Cannabis, La horse), are further united by their inclusion of sax player Philippe Maté and the early formation of Vannier’s own Insolitudes ensemble. As long-time custodians Finders Keepers Records are proud to present both the hallucinogenic orchestral music to Robert Benayoun’s Paris N’Existe Pas and the rhythmic onslaught and cyclic waltzes from Patrick Chaput’s La Bête Noire complete with an extensive booklet of essays, interviews, secrets and rare images from both of these mythical cinematic obscurities.

La bête noire / Paris N’Existe Pas

Music GB