Alain Goraguer

Alain Goraguer ( Alain Yves Réginald Goraguer ) is a type-setter and French arranger born the August 20th 1931 with Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis, France).

Pianist of jazz, it is known for his talents of musical Arrangeur. He also composed of many film musics.

Biography

Its family settles at the edge of the Mediterranean, in Nice, where the young Alain makes his studies of piano. It gives up without remorse the violin, passes shortly after its vats and makes at twenty years a decisive meeting: that of the pianist Diéval Jack, of passage to Nice, which advised all firmly to him to release for the piano. In same time, Alain studies the harmony with Julien Falk, being classified soon second with the tournament of jazz amateur.

He returns then towards Paris where he supplements his play and impassions itself for the Jazz. With Saint-Germain-of-Meadows, where it accompanies the singer Simone Alma, it meets Boris Vian. They write together I drink , the Java of the atomic bombs , Fais me badly Johnny and you do not marry the girls . Alain writes the music of the film I will spit on your tombs (1959) and still collaborates with Boris Vian in the development of the disc of certain Henry Cording who is not other than Henri Salvador and which carries out its first parodies then. He also carries out the orchestrations for a young artist, Serge Gainsbourg, of which he arranges all the albums until Gainsbourg percussions (1964). With Gainsbourg, Goraguer signs several film musics, among which Water with the mouth (1960).

In the Years 1960/70, it par excellence becomes “the arranger” following its noticed orchestration of Poupée of wax, headstock of sound , Grand Prix of the Concours Eurovision of the song 1965. He wrote very many arrangements for in particular Jean Ferrat, France Gall, Juliette Gréco, Nana Mouskouri and well of others. Alain Goraguer opened the way of a renewal of the orchestrations. He composes also a title for Brigitte Fontaine: the mad Cow (1965).

When Jean Ferrat asks him musicalement to equip the integral with his repertory, it reaches the top of its work of arranger-orchestrateur ( Potemkine , the Mountain , Two children with the sun …) By rebound Jean Ferrat being very close to Isabelle Aubret, this one composes and arranges some of its more beautiful songs. The best of the repertory of Isabelle Aubret is to him certainly.

It composes of many film musics, and the famous credits of the television program Gym Tonic animated by Veronique and Davina.

It records some discs of “soft music” under the name of Laura Fontaine.

Discography

Go Go Goraguer , collection Jazz in Paris, number 74. Trio: Alain Goraguer, piano; Paul Rovère, double bass, Christian Garros, battery. Republication of LP Philips 77.307 (beaches 1 to 12) and EP 432.106 (beaches 13 to 16). Its only album as a pianist of Jazz.

Jazz & cinema vol. 1 , collection Jazz in Paris. Music of the film I will spit on your tombs according to the work of Boris Vian.

Jazz & cinema vol. 4 , collection Jazz in Paris.

Original soundtrack of the film the wild Planet .

Catalog of films

1957 : Le Corbusier, the architect of happiness , Pierre Kast (short-measuring)
1957: a love of pocket , Pierre Kast
1958: the Trap , of Charles the Brabant
1959: the Beautiful age , of Pierre Kast
1959: I will spit on your tombs , of Michel Gast
1960: Wolves in the sheep-fold , of Herve Bromberger
1960: the Heirs , of Jean Laviron
1961: the Sahara burns , of Michel Gast
1962: One day in Paris , of Serge Korber (short-measuring)
1963: the Re-entry , of Serge Korber (short-measuring)
1963: Striptease , of Jacques Poitrenaud
1963: Joke in the corner , of Maurice Labro
1964: Idle periods , of Rene Laloux (short-measuring)
1964: Secret Paris , of Edouard Logereau (documentary)
1964: special Agent in Venice , of Andre Versini
1964: the tamed Shrew , of Pierre Badel (TV)
1965: Nick Casing and the red clover , of Jean-Paul Savignac
1965: the Snails , of Rene Laloux (short-measuring)
1965: the Young lady of Saint-Florentin cheese , Serge Korber
1966: a choice of assassins , Philippe Fourastié
1966: the Man of Marrakech , Jacques Deray
1970: the Maidservant , of Jacques Bertrand
1971: On a tree perched , of Serge Korber
1971: Shéhérazade , of Pierre Badel (TV)
1972: Doors of fire , Claude Bernard-Aubert
1972: Michel, the child-king , of Jean Boisvert, Jean-Paul Carrère, Andre Techine and Jean-Claude de Nesle (series TV)
1973: the Silencer , of Claude Pinoteau
1973: the Business Dominici , of Claude Bernard-Aubert
1973: the wild Planet , of Rene Laloux
1974: Weddings of porcelain , Roger Coggio
1974: the Rally of merry the , Serge Korber
1975: the Door of broad the , Pierre Badel (TV)
1975: Beyond the fear , of Yannick Andrei
1976: On the side of tennis , Madeleine Hartmann-Clausset
1977: the Eagle and the dove , of Claude Bernard-Aubert
1978: Girls of the regiment , Claude Bernard-Aubert
1979: Hitch-hikers in heat , of Claude Bernard-Aubert
1980: strange Stories , of Pierre Badel (serial TV)
1980: Charlie Cheer , of Claude Bernard-Aubert
1983: Jakob und Adele , of Hans-Jürgen Tögel (series TV)
1983: Thank you Sylvestre , of Serge Korber (series TV)
1983: Ich heirate eine Familie , of Peter Weck (series TV)
1987: How Wang Fo was saved , of Rene Laloux
1987: Florence or life of castle , Serge Korber (series TV)
1988: Good-bye I love you , of Claude Bernard-Aubert
1989: Panic in the Caribbean , of Jean-Claude Charnay and Serge Korber (series TV)
1991: Baby express train , of François Dupont-Midday (TV)
1991: Misunderstandings! , of Claude Vital (TV)
1992: the Midnight supper, it on which floor is? , of Serge Korber (TV)
1993: the scarlet Eye , of Dominique Roulet
1994: With the beautiful shore , of Serge Korber (TV)
1994: the Grape of gold , of Joel Seriated (TV)
1995: Plays of beach , Laurent Cantet
1996: the Urchin , of Serge Korber (TV)

External bonds

Page on Undergronde
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