Gainsbourg, Serge / Vannier, Jean-Claude: Les Chemins de Katmandou (The Pleasure Pit) (Original Soundtrack) - VINYL LP

Gainsbourg, Serge / Vannier, Jean-Claude: Les Chemins de Katmandou (The Pleasure Pit) (Original Soundtrack) - VINYL LPTitle: Les Chemins de Katmandou (The Pleasure Pit) (Original Soundtrack) Artist: Gainsbourg, Serge Vannier, Jean Claude Label: Finders Keepers Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 5060099506642 Genre: Soundtrack Release Date: 2017 11 24 Number of Discs: 1 After decades in the making, Finders Keepers present the first ever pressing of Serge Gainsbourg's most elusive and coveted soundtrack studio recordings, co written, arranged, and orchestrated by the genius

Title: Les Chemins de Katmandou (The Pleasure Pit) (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: Gainsbourg, Serge / Vannier, Jean-Claude
Label: Finders Keepers
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5060099506642
Genre: Soundtrack
Release Date: 2017-11-24
Number of Discs: 1

After decades in the making, Finders Keepers present the first-ever pressing of Serge Gainsbourg's most elusive and coveted soundtrack studio recordings, co-written, arranged, and orchestrated by the genius Jean-Claude Vannier (the arranger behind 1971's Histoire de Melody Nelson) during what many consider to be the dynamic duo's most definitive creative period. Believed to have been lost in a studio fire by Gainsbourg enthusiasts for over forty years (a myth that also shrouds Morricone's lost Danger Diabolik soundtrack), the misplaced master-tapes for the drug-fueled/Mai 68 cash-in/road-movie Les Chemins de Katmandou (1969) have been widely considered the final audio jigsaw piece in an immaculate discography/filmography, thus earning this soundtrack bona fide holy grail status amongst the most avid disc detectives. Featuring the original crack team of Paris based players now recognized as French library music royalty, this album epitomizes the inimitable musical direction and expert psychedelic pop musicianship that graced classic Gainsbourg/Vannier soundtracks like La Horse (1970), Cannabis (1970), and Sex Shop (1972), the sound that laid the stylistic, future-proof foundations for subsequent decades of forward-thinking Gallic funk mastery. Comprising Vannier's signature recipe of thick plucked bass lines, close-mic'd drums, biting clavinet, and Eastern influenced strings and percussion (and a sprinkling of subtle traditional French instrumentation) the soundtrack to Les Chemins de Katmandou ("The Road To Katmandu", or "The Pleasure Pit") captures Vannier and Gainsbourg in the first year of their creative partnership capturing their unique embryonic energy. The music on this record contains the full extent of the music found on the newly discovered studio tapes. It has since been preserved through the "baking" process, re-emulsified, transferred, remastered, and recompiled and sequenced in accordance with the original screenplay in close collaboration with Finders Keepers and inaugural artist, Jean-Claude Vannier.

Tracks:
1.1 Les Chemins de Katmandou (Titles)
1.2 The Pleasure Pit
1.3 Colin-Maillard
1.4 Le Roi Des Phlébotomes
1.5 Flower Child
1.6 Cache Cache
1.7 Opium Den
1.8 Overdose
1.9 Oliver
1.10 Fallen Rainbow
1.11 Colin-Maillard (Vox)
1.12 Les Chemins de Katmandou