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ARTIST
MAGNE, MICHEL
TITLE
Les Tontons Flingueurs
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
LE POP CLUB RECORDS
CATALOG #
PCR 035LP
PCR 035LP
GENRE
SOUNDTRACK
RELEASE DATE
6/18/2021
The music from
Les Tontons Flingueurs
(aka
Crooks in Clover
aka
Monsieur Gangster
) is as instantaneously recognizable as the
James Bond
theme thanks to a short and recurring melodic motif that can still stick in the heads of 21th century kids. Monothematicism is a word used by musicologists to refer to the use of stylistic variations based on a single musical theme as can be heard in the Tontons: on the banjo, during the nose punch sequences, played jazz, blues, gloria or Hully Gally style. Though the Tontons music may on first listen sound nothing different than a straightforward yet catchy soundtrack, it turns out to be a real exercise in style. When reading
Michel Magne
's autobiography
L'amour de vivre
it clearly appears that mixing folk music and sound experiments was a mindful artistic choice. In the movie,
Antoine Delafoy
(
Claude Rich
) who is engaged to
Patricia
is merely a Michel Magne caricature. He embodies a contemporary music composer in search of the "absolute anti-chord" by using a water tap. In reality and despite his classical musical education, Michel Magne has indeed had a venture into avant-garde music, going as far as organizing an infrasounds concert at the Salle Gaveau venue (Paris) on July 15th, 1954. On December 3rd, 1956 his low-frequency sounds contributed to an "empirique" show at the Théâtre des Trois Baudets (Paris) with
Alexandro Jodorowsky
,
Jean Michel Rankovitch
, and
Tinguely
. At the same time, he wrote music on words by
Françoise Sagan
for
Mouloudji
. In 1959 he recorded an album of "musiques tachistes" from which a show with dances was staged by
Michel Descombey
. His taste for provocation and avant-garde did not prevent Michel Magne from composing and arranging popular music. He hence wrote the music for six
Georges Lautner
movies including the famous
Tontons Flingueurs
in 1963. Being part of the avant-garde long-haired world what could Michel Magne think of
Michel Audiard
-- a most kind character who had nevertheless been burned by supporters of the "nouvelle vague" including journalist
Henry Chapier
who described
Les Tontons Flingueurs
as being "chansonnier" cinema, meant for disenchanted quinquagenarians. In between melodic effectiveness and daring arrangements and tonality, Magne's work is worth being listened to with fresh ears, cleared of clichés!
Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe
is the author of numerous publications including Filles de la pop and Tricatel Universalis" He writes for Rock & Folk, Citizen K, Schnock and Shindig.
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