Alain
Goraguer –
Go-go-Goraguer
CD album, 2001 (recored 1956 in
Paris)
Universal Music (France)
Alain
Goraguer is one of the amazing music figures in contemporary French
music. In the late '50s he was Serge Gainsbourg's arranger, and made
some incredible recordings with him, and a tad earlier he made this
album Go-go-Goraguer.
Hearing this I imagine Alain Delon playing a gangster walking into a
crowded bistro in a Jean-Pierre Melville film. The music reflects on
the beauty of its time and its played somewhere between between dusk
and dawn. Jazz is always cinamatic to me, and especially French
jazz. I can practically smell Pigalle off these melodies.
Goraguer
plays the piano in a manner that is bopish but with a sense of
lightness. Beautifully and tastefully backed by Double Bass Paul
Rovére and drums by Christian Garros. Also do note that Goraguer in
the early '70s made a remarkable electronic soundtrack to the film La
Planéte Sauvage as
well as composing the imfamous Boris Vian related J'iri
cracher sur vos tombes.
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