Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Jean-Claude Vannier - 'L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches' (1972)



Jean-Claude Vannier is a French composer who did the arrangement for Serge Gainsbourg's seminal album Historie de Melody Nelson, as well as working with the likes of Brigitte Fontaine and Michel Polnareff. L'Enfant Assasin de Mouches was Vannier's first solo, instrumental album.

From Wikipedia:

Shortly afterwards, in 1972, Vannier's first full solo album, a conceptual ballet entiltled L'Enfant assassin des mouches ('The child killer of the flies') was released on a little-known French label called 'Suzelle'.[3] This work exemplified the eclectic influences acting upon its composer, and was completed with a short synopsis penned by Gainsbourg. The album never received much attention, however, due to the limits of its release- mostly in the direction of people working in the record industry. He was to make one more concept album, Interprete les musiques de Georges Brassens, detailing the work of the French composer with the same ensemble used on the previous album. He then moulded a pop career as a singer-songwriter, releasing a self-titled album on WEA in 1975. He has since largely withdrawn from the public eye.
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1 comment:

zlobnykloun said...

The link's dead. Could you re-up this?