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Jean-Claude Vannier (b. 1943, Bécon-les-Bruyères, Courbevoie, France) is 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’[1] 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’[2], 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’)[3] (listen [1]), was released on a little-known French label called ‘Suzelle’.
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’[1] 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’[2], 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’)[3] (listen [1]), was released on a little-known French label called ‘Suzelle’.
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oneEyedZed wrote:
thats just amazing how that guy arranges strings with groovy rock , still sounding so fresh.
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"L'enfant assassin des mouches" is one piece of genius....wow...i dont know how to tag it but experimental.
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RichMahogany wrote:
why isn't funk rock post rock string orchestra its own genre... for fucks sake!
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Space_Cat wrote:
criminally under-listened-to
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where can I get this guys self titled album, or Interprete les musiques de Georges Brassens I've been looking forever
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jean-claude vannier is the father of music.
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moving and beautiful
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