Serge Gainsbourg L'homme

Serge Gainsbourg recorded his first album in 1958. But it was at the end of the 1960s that his short affair with Brigitte Bardot changed his jazzy style towards this suggestive music with sumptuous arrangements. He then met Jane Birkin with whom he recorded the 1969 duet "Je t'aime … Moi Non Plus", a song with scorching lyrics punctuated by gasps and explicit moans. Although it was banned in many countries, this song reached the top of the charts all over Europe. In 1971, he released The Story of Melody Nelson, a cycle of dark songs that mark his growing detachment from modern culture. Drugs, disease, suicide and misanthropy become recurring themes in his work.

Bayon a publié dans Libération deux entretiens qu'il avait eus avec Serge Gainsbourg. Le premier, réalisé en septembre 1981, était centré sur la mort. Le second, publié partiellement en novembre 1984, avait pour thème le sexe. Il est lisible, ici, dans son intégralité, pour la première fois.

Un essai situant Serge Gainsbourg dans la lignée des dandys du XIXe siècle, révélant, au-delà de son apparence, son orgueil, son goût pour l'artifice et la sophistication, son culte du beau et de l'originalité. Comme Barbey d'Aurevilly, Baudelaire ou Wilde, le dandysme est pour le chanteur davantage qu'un ornement, il fonde sa personnalité, son esthétique et sa morale. …

La discographie de Serge Gainsbourg emprunte différents styles musicaux sans jamais perdre son éloquence et sa singularité, signe d’une maîtrise esthétique magistrale! Le 2 avril 2018 marque le 90e anniversaire de la naissance d’une signature artistique majeure dont l’influence ne cesse de se manifester. A cette occasion paraît en tirage limité “90 Séquences”, un nouveau coffret Best Of de 4 CD, du “Poinçonneur des Lilas” (1958) à “You’re Under Arrest” (1987), accompagnés d’un DVD inédit exclusif avec la participation de Jane Birkin, Etienne Daho, Alain Chamfort, Louis Chédid, Philippe Manœuvre…

Serge Gainsbourg - L'Essentiel Des Albums Studio 1958-1987 (2011) {Mercury 277 162-7 - 14 Albums On 12 CDs}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 2.40 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 958 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 176 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1958-87, 2011 Mercury / Universal Music France | 277 162-7
Pop / International / Chanson / French Pop / French Rock / Western European Traditions / Cabaret

Being familiar with some of his work (basically the hit songs) I had no idea of the legacy this brilliant man has left behind. To my complete surprise this (ridiculously low priced) box set opened a new musical world before my ears and from the very first listening I have felt madly and hopelessly in love with Serge Gainsbourg's music. The quality of these recordings is matched by the quality of sound. The remastering is top notch and superior to most digital transfers heard today. I only wish this incredible set had been released on vinyl as well.

After their collaboration on Anna, Swiss film director Pierre Koralnik and Serge Gainsbourg (along with Jean Claude Vannier) worked in 1970 on a legendary dark movie shot in New York. 'Cannabis' is a film mainly about blood, sex and death. The soundtrack had never been reissued entirely since 1970. Comes with 8 more tracks of another soundtrack that Serge Gainsbourg did with Michel Colombier, 'Ce Sacre Grand Pere' which includes a cult duo of Gainsbourg with Michel Simon. Universal. Digipak. 2003

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…