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ARTIST
TITLE
Le Magnifique
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
PCR 060LP PCR 060LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/15/2023

Le Magnifique is a cult film. Many a viewer has memorized the lines of this character, whose role was tailor-made for Jean-Paul Belmondo. In 1973, Belmondo reunited with director Philippe de Broca, a pair who, decades before the Jean Dujardin version of OSS 117, were unknowingly making meta cinema. The film's soundtrack, by Claude Bolling, successfully navigates between the first and second degree, without ever sinking into the clumsiness of "fantasy music". For the record, Claude Bolling is none other than the chief composer of the all-female group Les Parisiennes and of some 100 film scores, including Borsalino, which is certainly the best-known. Above all, he is a genius of French jazz, whose talent makes his music sound relaxed and familiar, even when you're listening to it for the first time. From the very first track on the album, "TaQana," postcard images of Mexico spring to mind. Claude Bolling plays with the codes of film music without ever losing a certain communicative jubilation. With the soundtrack to Le Magnifique, Claude Bolling equals the Anglo-Saxon masters of the easy-jazz pop genre, such as Henri Mancini. Fans of jerks to dance to at the ambassador's parties will be delighted by the composition "Pop Mod." Even today, those who invented the term "lounge core" would go out of their way to own an original Claude Bolling vinyl. Thanks to Claude Bolling and his original French touch, before the days of Dimitri From Paris and Bob Sinclair who, if they hadn't been able to take advantage of this musical and cinematographic heritage, wouldn't have had anything to sample.