Name: Les Tontons Flingueurs
Brand: Michel Magne

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PCR035

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Colour

black

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-03-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

7640186551564

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

Artist

Michel Magne

Genre GB

Soundtracks

Label GB

Le Pop Club Records

The music from <i>Les Tontons Flingueurs </i>(aka Crooks in Clover aka Monsieur Gangster) by French composer Michel Magne is as instantaneously recognisable as the James Bond theme, thanks to a short and recurring melodic motif that can still stick in the heads of 21st century kids. Monothematism is a word used by musicologists to refer to the use of stylistic variations based on a single musical theme as can be heard in the Tontons : on the banjo, during the nose punch sequences, and played jazz, or blues, or Hully Gally style. Though the Tontons music may on first listen sound nothing different than a straightforward yet catchy soundtrack, it turns out to be a real exercise in style. When reading Michel Magne's autobiography <i>L'amour de vivre</i> it clearly appears that mixing folk music and sound experiments was a purposeful artistic choice.

Les Tontons Flingueurs

Music GB