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FRANKENSTEIN 90
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Composed and Conducted by Armando Trovajoli

World Premiere CD release.
Remastered edition supervised by Claudio Fuiano, including one previously unreleased track.
8-page CD booklet with French and English liner notes by Nicolas Magenham.
Limited Collector’s Edition.

Ref: MBR-090
Release Date: May 17, 2016

In collaboration with EMI Music Publishing, Music Box Records is pleased to present in complete edition and for the first time on CD, the original motion picture soundtrack of Alain Jessua's Frankenstein 90 (1984) composed and conducted by Armando Trovajoli (Profumo di donna, Tais-toi quand tu parles).

Alain Jessua chose the parodic mode for his own version of the Frankenstein myth, starring Jean Rochefort as Victor Frankenstein, and Eddy Mitchell as the creature (called Frank). This time the doctor is a cyberneticist who creates a monster from various human body parts, but gives him an electronic brain.

Armando Trovajoli’s score, both light and sinister, takes inspiration from the past, either in a deliberately old-fashioned and parodic way, or through a respectful tribute to the greatest moments of romantic music. The Italian composer’s work also displays some modern elements such as the recurring use of soprano saxophone, sometimes coupled with a rhythm akin to that of disco.

Supervised and mastered by Claudio Fuiano, this present edition features the same content as the original LP issued by General Music France and includes one previously unreleased track. The CD comes with an 8-page booklet with liner notes by Nicolas Magenham, discussing the film and the score.



TRACK LISTING:

1. La dernière valse (02:37)
2. Frankenstein 90 (02:04)
3. Découverte de la nature (02:47)
4. Frankenstein 1930 (00:56)
5. À la recherche de Frankenstein (02:06)
6. Strip-tease (02:46)
7. La chambre d'Adélaïde (02:02)
8. Le château de Frankenstein (02:39)
9. Poursuite dans la forêt (01:22)
10. Poursuite dans la forêt (2e version) (01:40)
11. L'évasion de Frank (01:28)
12. Fuite de Frank et Élisabeth (03:21)
13. Frankenstein 90 (reprise)* (01:25)
14. Frankenstein 90 (2e version) (03:03)

* previously unreleased

Total Time • 30:50

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LA PASSANTE DU SANS-SOUCI • GARDE À VUE
Two Original Motion Picture Soundtracks
Music Composed and Composed by Georges Delerue

World Premiere CD release.
Remastered edition. More than 50 minutes of music.
8-page CD booklet with French and English liner notes by Sylvain Pfeffer.
Limited Collector’s Edition.

Ref: MBR-091
Release Date: May 17, 2016

In collaboration with EMI Music Publishing, Music Box Records is pleased to present on CD the two soundtracks composed by Georges Delerue for Romy Schneider's last films: Claude Miller's Garde à vue (Under Suspicion, 1981), adapted from the novel by John Wainwright (Brainwash) and Jacques Rouffio 's La Passante du Sans-Souci (The Passerby, 1982), adapted from the 1936 novel by Joseph Kessel.

For La Passante du Sans-Souci, Georges Delerue wrote a main theme on violin with undertones of Klezmer, bringing to the film a dramatic dimension. This theme is reprised as a song in the final credits (Chanson d’exil) and its many variations appear in several cues throughout the score.

For Garde à vue, Georges Delerue wrote a very short effective score for this psychological thriller. The main theme takes the form of a carnival waltz.

This new album devoted to two scores by Georges Delerue allows the listener to hear two sides of his writing: the one dramatic and sentimental, dominated by strings, the other darker and more disquieting. Oscillating between the sadness of adults and the fears of children, this album gives resonance once more to the wide palette of a composer with many facets.

This present edition has been fully remastered from the original master tapes which contain the previously issued LP programs. The package includes an 8-page booklet with liner notes by Sylvain Pfeffer, discussing the films and the scores.



TRACK LISTING:

LA PASSANTE DU SANS-SOUCI
1. Chanson d'exil (03:28)
Performed by Talila
2. Générique (01:35)
3. La valse parisienne (00:56)
4. Elsa et Maurice (01:29)
5. Max et son père / Photo souvenir (01:41)
6. L'arbre de Noël (01:27)
7. Air tzigane (01:10)
8. Le petit Max au Rajah (01:34)
9. La chanson d'Elsa (02:01)
Performed by Hannelore Norgensen
10. Accordéon parisien (02:08)
11. Une femme seule avec un enfant (02:20)
12. Air de Max (02:17)
13. Charlotte et son client (01:09)
14. L'attente d'Elsa (03:20)
15. Air des rues (01:37)
16. Le départ de Berlin (00:51)
17. Le retour de Michel (00:41)
18. Elsa et Michel enfin réunis (02:33)
19. Goles Lid (03:27)
Performed by Talila in yiddish

Time • 36:34

GARDE À VUE
20. Chantal Martinaud (02:07)
21. Les dunes (01:02)
22. Le fox de l'Amazone (01:40)
23. Belmont (01:56)
24. Chantal et Camille (04:47)
25. À la sous-préfecture (01:37)
26. Musique de la pluie (01:44)

Time • 15:10

Total Time • 51:44

For sound clips and available for order, please visit: http://www.musicbox-records.com/en/3508 … a-vue.html

MADE IN FRANCE
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Composed and Performed by Rob

World Premiere CD Release. Expanded edition.
37 minutes of music, including 3 previously unreleased tracks.
Limited Collector’s Edition.

Ref: MBR-096
Release Date: May 17, 2016

In collaboration with Hippocampus and Radar Films, Music Box Records presents the premiere CD release of the score for Nicolas Boukhrief's Made in France (2015) composed by Rob (Maniac, Horns, Populaire).

The plot of this French crime thriller-drama film follows a freelance journalist who infiltrates the underground hardcore preaching mosques, befriending four local young men who dream of training for Jihad. A Frenchman, converted to islam, comes back from Pakistan with a mission for them: launch a deadly attack in Paris.

Rob utilized cinematic codes, as if this were a John Carpenter film: sequences made spine-tingling by use of electronica, rhythm machines, and film noir themes. The electronic score has a very late-'70’s vibe.

For this premiere release of Rob’s Made in France score on compact disc, Music Box Records has added three bonus tracks which did not appear on previous vinyl or digital releases.



TRACK LISTING:

1. Fugue (3:00)
2. Taqiya (1:14)
3. Trapped (2:16)
4. Rise and Fall (1:20)
5. Bullet (3:47)
6. Taqiya Night (0:57)
7. Slow Fugue (2:58)
8. Peshawar (2:40)
9. Voodoo Bullet (1:41)
10. Heartbroken (1:14)
11. Bomb (1:05)
12. Guns and Knives (1:05)
13. Execution (3:25)
14. Hero (3:58)

BONUS TRACKS

15. Fugue (Early Demo) (3:31)
16. Fugue Fast (1:48)
17. Heart (1:28)

Total Time • 37:44

For sound clips and available for order, please visit: http://www.musicbox-records.com/en/3509 … rance.html