JEAN CLAUDE VANNIER

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Jean-Claude Vannier (b. 1943, Bécon-les-Bruyères, Courbevoie, France) was a composer and arranger.
He was particularly prominent as an associate to Serge Gainsbourg in arranging scores for film in the later 1960s, though he later was to become a solo recording artist in his own right. His musical style was influenced by jazz, baroque, klezmer, oriental and rock forms, culminating in a unique attitute towards composition, fuelled by a taste for ‘the wrong side of the music, the wrong notes.’ He was originally a producer, but was demoted from the commercially important side of the business, instead being forced to produce for Arabic clients. This was, according to Vannier, an opportunity to explore further the musical genres he had formed a keen interest in.
He moved on to work as an arranger for Brigitte Fontaine, Johnny Halliday and Michel Polnareff, before being approached by Gainsbourg after the latter’s association with Alain Goraguer had disintegrated. He then composed the scores for a couple of films in which Gainsbourg was the principal actor- Pierre Koralnik’s ‘Cannabis’and André Cayatte’s ‘Les chemins de Katmandou’. Perhaps his most popular contribution to music, in the English-speaking world at least, was the arranging of the orchestra and chorus for Gainbourg’s landmark album ‘Histoire de Melody Nelson’, a concept piece based around a funk rhythm section with a string and chorus accompaniment. 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’.

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french psych, mondiovision, progressive rock, psych rock, vannier

1	Le Roi Des Mouches full track	5
2	Danse Des Mouches Noires Gardes Du Roi full track	4
3	L'enfant Au Royaume Des Mouches	3
3	L'enfant La Mouche Et Les Allumettes	3
3	Danse De L'enfant Et Du Roi Des Mouches	3
6	je m'appelle geraldine (mid tempo)	2
7	Je M'appelle Geraldine (Up-Tempo)	1
7	l'enfant assassin des mouches	1
7	Theme 504	1
7	L'Enfant Au Rayaume Des Mouches	1
7	Je M'appelle Geraldine (Mid-Tempo) full track	1
7	Petite agonie de l'enfant assassin full track	1
7	les garde volent au secours du roi	1
7	Je m'appelle Geraldine (Up Tempo)	1
7	L'efant la mouche et les allumettes	1