Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier - Cannabis (1970)



After collaborating together 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. 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.

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

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


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  1. Anonimowy28/2/11

    Rad SERT i Vannier su senzacionalno, dva najbolja composters Francuskoj.

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