Alain Goraguer (August 20, 1931, Rosny sous Bois, France) was a French jazz… Read Full Bio ↴Alain Goraguer (August 20, 1931, Rosny sous Bois, France) was a French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer. He reached his creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s. He also recorded and composed the soundtrack to the film Fantastic Planet.
His family was from Nice, on the coast of the Mediterranean, where young Alain studied the piano. He abandoned the violin without remorse, and at the age of twenty had an influential encounter with pianist Jack Diéval, passing through Nice, who firmly advised him to give up everything for the piano. At the same time, Alain studied harmony with Julien Falk, and soon won second place in an amateur jazz competition.
He soon went to Paris where he indulged his passion for jazz. At Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he accompanied singer Simone Alma, he met Boris Vian. Together, they wrote Je Bois, La Java des bombes atomiques, Fais-moi mal Johnny et Ne vous mariez pas les filles. Alain then scored the music for the film J'irai cracher sur vos tombres (1959). He wrote the orchestration for young Serge Gainsbourg, indeed he arranged all of his albums up until Gainsbourg percussions (1964). With Gainsbourg, Goraguer scored more film music, such as that for L'Eau à la bouche (1960).
In the 1960s and 70's, he did the orchestration for Poupée de cire, poupée de son, winning the grand prize for The Eurovision Song Contest in 1965. He wrote numerous arrangements for Jean Ferrat, France Gall, Juliette Gréco, Nana Mouskouri, Adamo and many others. Alain Goraguer then opened the door for a renewal in popularity of orchestral compositions. He also composed the title theme La Vache enragée (1965), sung by Brigitte Fontaine.
He also wrote a number of easy listening albums under the name Laura Fontaine.
Goraguer died on 13 February 2023, at the age of 91.
TRIVIA
Producer Madlib has avowedly drawn inspiration from, and sampled, Goraguer's work on the first Quasimoto album. The song "C'mon Feet" samples sounds of characters running and percussion form the film Fantastic Planet for the sound of his alter ego, Quasimoto, as he flees the scene of a crime.
Hiphop-Producer V.I.C. sampled the song "Le Bracelet" from the La Planete Sauvage soundtrack for Big Pun's track titled Boomerang from the album Capital Punishment.
On the soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides, Air bare Goraguer's influence, especially the soundtrack to La Planète Sauvage.
The Rascalz sampled Goraguer's "Le Bracelet" on Soul Obligation from their album Cash Crop.
- From Wikipedia
His family was from Nice, on the coast of the Mediterranean, where young Alain studied the piano. He abandoned the violin without remorse, and at the age of twenty had an influential encounter with pianist Jack Diéval, passing through Nice, who firmly advised him to give up everything for the piano. At the same time, Alain studied harmony with Julien Falk, and soon won second place in an amateur jazz competition.
He soon went to Paris where he indulged his passion for jazz. At Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he accompanied singer Simone Alma, he met Boris Vian. Together, they wrote Je Bois, La Java des bombes atomiques, Fais-moi mal Johnny et Ne vous mariez pas les filles. Alain then scored the music for the film J'irai cracher sur vos tombres (1959). He wrote the orchestration for young Serge Gainsbourg, indeed he arranged all of his albums up until Gainsbourg percussions (1964). With Gainsbourg, Goraguer scored more film music, such as that for L'Eau à la bouche (1960).
In the 1960s and 70's, he did the orchestration for Poupée de cire, poupée de son, winning the grand prize for The Eurovision Song Contest in 1965. He wrote numerous arrangements for Jean Ferrat, France Gall, Juliette Gréco, Nana Mouskouri, Adamo and many others. Alain Goraguer then opened the door for a renewal in popularity of orchestral compositions. He also composed the title theme La Vache enragée (1965), sung by Brigitte Fontaine.
He also wrote a number of easy listening albums under the name Laura Fontaine.
Goraguer died on 13 February 2023, at the age of 91.
TRIVIA
Producer Madlib has avowedly drawn inspiration from, and sampled, Goraguer's work on the first Quasimoto album. The song "C'mon Feet" samples sounds of characters running and percussion form the film Fantastic Planet for the sound of his alter ego, Quasimoto, as he flees the scene of a crime.
Hiphop-Producer V.I.C. sampled the song "Le Bracelet" from the La Planete Sauvage soundtrack for Big Pun's track titled Boomerang from the album Capital Punishment.
On the soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides, Air bare Goraguer's influence, especially the soundtrack to La Planète Sauvage.
The Rascalz sampled Goraguer's "Le Bracelet" on Soul Obligation from their album Cash Crop.
- From Wikipedia
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Alain Goraguer Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Alain Goraguer:
Prelude To A Kiss If you hear A song in blue Like a flower crying For the…
Star Eyes Star eyes, That to me is what your eyes are, Soft as…
The Nearness of You Its not the pale moon that excites me That thrills and…
You Are Too Beautiful You are too beautiful, my dear, to be true And I…
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Lonely Rooster(vent)
It's sad and comforting knowing there will never be anything like Fantastic Planet.
BboyZoinks
There won’t be if you look closely, avatar is basically the same thing just backwards
Alex Gomez
@BboyZoinks Also the fact that Avatar is a Dances with Wolves/Pocahontas rehash in space, while this is an allegory for animal abuse.
Roi Vinik Mossel
@BboyZoinks dont compare avatar to this timeless masterpiece.
BboyZoinks
@Alex Gomez wtf are you saying?
Anthony White
I'm assuming I'm not the only kid who watched this movie growing up. Mental images of incredible 70s psychedelic music and animation will forever be burned into my psyche.
Ka'rehd The Blue
When I was about 14, I lived in a tiny, shitty cabin the middle of the woods with my mom, it was one of the few movies that was available there.
I loved every moment of it actually :)
Garrett Sheaffer
I watched it on the Armed Forces Network late night matinee in Okinawa Japan back in 2007. I loved it, my friends thought it was weird but we were all drunk. The next day I ordered a DVD copy and I've been a fan ever since.
GMAN237
i watched it when i was about 7 or 8
Attreus Mani-iu
I live in Florida and walk about two miles to get from my university to the bus stop. With all the heat in the air and the relative quiet around me, I like to listen to this and imagine I'm trudging through some alien landscape.