Alain Goraguer
"I'm interested in all kinds of music, although I started out in jazz. Trying out all styles has been very useful to me, later on, in writing film music because you can be asked to do anything."
"I'm interested in all kinds of music, although I started out in jazz. Trying out all styles has been very useful to me, later on, in writing film music because you can be asked to do anything."
Rare Soundtracks & Lost Tapes (1973-1984)
Bomb! French composer Alain Goraguer who first made a name for himself as a sideman and arranger for Serge Gainsbourg wrote very few soundtracks, but amongst them, the legendary La Planète Sauvage (1973) is an absolute staple of France’s essential music. During that same period of time, Goraguer wrote two rare and beautiful scores using the same masterclass arrangements. On L’Affaire Dominici (1975), Alain Goraguer creates a theme of great melodic clarity from a palette of breathy flutes, clavin…
La Planete Sauvage - Original Soundtrack Recording
Alain Goraguer's all-time classic psychedelic funk soundtrack to René Laloux's 1973 animated masterpiece 'La Planète Sauvage' here on an expanded double LP edition
Musique Classee X
** 2022 Repress Edition - 100% Original packaging, 180g LP, gatefold cover + inner 12 pages color exercise book (X Rated) **Musique Classee X is a brand-new selection of unreleased music composed by the great Alain Goraguer for movies from the golden age of French pornography, brought together on vinyl, an object of all the desires. This compilation features eight never-before-released tracks composed by Alain Goraguer, orchestrator and composer of an impressive number of monumental French songs…
Strip Tease
Another side of Serge Gainsbourg permeates this 1963 film soundtrack about 'a stripper lost in the nocturnal world' of Paris, according to director Jacques Poitrenaud, who cast Nico in the lead role (after her appearance in La Dolce Vita and just prior to the single she cut with Jimmy Page for Andrew Loog Oldham). Created by Gainsbourg with arranger and longstanding collaborator Alain Gourager, the music is fittingly the cool jazz of dingy nightclubs and seedy bordellos, with Gainsbourg on piano…