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Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Cannabis Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Serge Gainsbourg, Jean-Claude Vannier on AllMusic - 2003 - Issued as part of Universal France's Essentials&hellip.

Cannabis is a film score by French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, released in May 1970 through Philips Records, accompanying the 1970 film of the same name, directed by Pierre Koralnik and starring Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, and Curd Jürgens.

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Conception[edit]

Background[edit]

After collaborating on Anna, a 1967 television movie starring Anna Karina, Gainsbourg and French director Pierre Koralnik decided to work on another movie which would eventually become Cannabis, when three producers (Roger Duchet, Andrée Debar, and Nat Wachsberger) commissioned one, based on seeing Gainsbourg and his then-lover Jane Birkin starring together in the 1969 film, Slogan, directed by Pierre Grimblat.^[2] All of the music for Cannabis was composed and written by Gainsbourg after the film had been shot, with help from arranger Jean-Claude Vannier, with whom Gainsbourg would again collaborate the following year on Histoire de Melody Nelson.^[2]

Recording[edit]

Cannabis was recorded at Studio Davout, a recording studio in Paris, France, with producers Roger Duchet and Nat Wachselberger.^[3]

Reception[edit]

Upon its release, Cannabis was received positively. Thom Jurek of Allmusic wrote that it was 'among the most startling [...] in [Gainsbourg's] oeuvre', and also noted that the score was 'one of the most sophisticated [...] Gainsbourg ever conceived'.^[4]

Track listing[edit]

All music composed by Serge Gainsbourg and arranged by Jean-Claude Vannier.

Release history[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Tangari, Joe (4 August 2010). 'Serge Gainsbourg / Jane Birkin - Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg review'. Pitchfork. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
2. ^ ^abLerouge, Stéphane (2003). 'Pierre Koralnik interview'. Cannabis (booklet, CD). Serge Gainsbourg. EmArcy. pp. 10–13.
3. ^'Serge Gainsbourg - Bande Originale Du Film 'Cannabis' at Discogs'. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
4. ^ ^abJurek, Thom. 'Serge Gainsbourg: Cannabis > Review'. Allmusic. Retrieved 2 November 2010.

External links[edit]

• Cannabis at Discogs

Issued as part of Universal France's Essentials of Cinema series, Serge Gainsbourg's soundtracks to Michel Colombier's 1968 Ce Sacre Grand-Pere, and Pierre Koralnik's scandalous Cannabis, are among the most startling pieces of music in his oeuvre. Cannabis was based around a tawdry thriller and was set by Pierre Koralnik in the free, lone-generation of the late '60s, and starred none other than Gainsbourg and wife Jane Birkin. The film, a kind of revenge tale, featured lots of gratuitous (real) sex and was a commercial flop. But its score is one of the most sophisticated pieces of music Gainsbourg ever conceived. It's a wondrously baroque and anthemic rock score with elements of Middle Eastern folk songs, and a pop cabaret joviality (courtesy of Jean-Claude Vannier's loopy song 'I Want to Feel Crazy,' sung by Birkin with a drugged-out string section). It was orchestrated for a complete army of electric guitars, harpsichord, strings, and the loudest bassline ever threaded through a French movie -- truly amazing. The score to the Colombier film is tacked on as bonus material, and is far more traditional, but has enough pop/rock charm and nutty electric guitar and Hammond B3 play to make it a worthy add-on to Cannabis. This is essential listening for any Gainsbourg or '60s soundtrack fan. In addition to the music are killer stills from Cannabis, and a brutally honest translated interview with Koralnik.

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