Label: Finders Keepers

Released 2022

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 (Histoire de Melody Nelson/L’enfant assassin des mouches) 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.

Track listing:

La Bête Noire

1. La Bête Noire (Intro)
2. Chasser La Bête Noire  
3. Histoire De Daniel
4. The Black Beast (Effets Cords)  
5. Rythme De La Bête Noire  
6. Danse De La Bête Noire
7. Le Dealer
8. Karen/Antonia (M 8)    
9. The Black Beast 2 (Effets Cords)  
10. The Writer/Yves (M 10)
11. Chasser La Bête Noire (Revenir)  
12. The Juvenile Judge (M 12)  
13. La Bête Noire (Generique)

Paris N'Existe Pas

1. Paris N'Existe Pas (Opening Titles)  
2. Angela En Ambre  
3. Télékinésie En Turquoise   
4. Simon Slips
5. La Chambre Rose
6. Fantôme Félicienne  
7. Le Feu
8. La Tête
9. Les Chemins N'Existent Pas
10. Fantôme Soirée
11. Le Temps Passe
12. Flipbook  
13. Fantôme Soirée (Out-take)
14. Flipbook (Out-take)