Jean-Claude Vannier Electro Rapide

Electro Rapide is a collection of rare and unreleased archive material from the
studio archives of legendary French orchestral pop composer Jean-Claude
Vannier. Taken from the period before and during his revered creative relationship
with Serge Gainsbourg (reaching their halcyon with 1971’s Histoire De Melody
Nelson) these tracks reveal a rare glimpse of Vannier’s self-initiated instrumental
projects that were crowbarred between an airtight studio diary as one of France’s
most in demand arrangers and composers of the post Mai-68 generation...
Alongside a handful of his contemporaries and collaborators such as Michel
Colombier, Serge Gainsbourg, François de Roubaix, Brigitte Fontaine, Claude
Nougaro and Gerard Manset, composer and orchestral arranger Jean-Claude
Vannier is globally recognised as one of the key exponents of the Gallic pop
cognoscenti to make the significant change from 60s yé-yé to the brooding conceptual
pop which defined the following decade. His own masterworks, Histoire
De Melody Nelson and L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches (both of which benefited
from the poetic prose of Serge Gainsbourg), are two such productions that continue
to inspire and challenge popular music as long as five decades since they
were first released to moderate audiences in the early 1970s.
Electro Rapide is a collection of similarly underexposed instrumental works that
combine a mixture of Jean-Claude Vannier’s familiar trademark motifs and
stylings from his coveted work for idiosyncratic French pop vocalists (such as
Fontaine, Nougaro, Leonie and Anna St. Clair) with the seldom heard experimental
music for ballets, fashion shows as well as his infamous film music (such as
the soundtracks for Cannabis and La Horse).