Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches
[Finders Keepers]

The newly launched B-Music affiliated reissue label Finders Keepers has been something of a vinyl collector's dream, especially for those who've awaited it's delayed arrival since rumours spread of it's formation last year.

As the label's epic first release, the chosen subject is sometime Serge Gainsbourg collaborator Jean-Claude Vannier. Vannier was responsible for assisting with Gainsbourg's most respected and inspiring album 'Histoire De Melody Nelson', arranging the strings on the influential masterpiece.

'L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches' is a concept album like no other; a soundtrack created for an imaginery film entitled 'Child Fly-Killer', reissued here in it's original glory and featuring Gainbourg's strange, bit fitting sleeve notes that were penned after Gainsbourg heard this disturbing music.

'L'Enfant...' is a genre-twisting and thought provoking pyschedelic rock-opera; the sublime piano of 'Danse Des Mouches Noires Gardes Du Roi' slides into the schizophrenic child samples of 'Les Garde Volent Au Secours Du Roi', and the opening horn-heavy, wah guitars and impressive beats conflict with the broken detuned noise of the inspiring title track. The latter of which, sounds like a bull let loose upon an instrument shop.

A musical experience like you'll have never encountered before, taking nods to jazz, hip-hop, orchestral, funk, ambience and experimental rock along the way. Only a label with as much balls as Finders Keepers would release an album so absurdly eclectic and astonishing in this day and age.