Pierre Raph
Le Rose De Fer
DIM008

A true enigma in French exploitation cinema and a key exponent in JeanRollin’s expansive family of forward thinking French creatives, Pierre Raph delivered four soundtrack commissions to the ABC film company between 1971 and 1974 commencing with Requiem Pour Un Vampire and ending with the bizarre Les Démoniaques. The lost score for the film Le Rose De Fer from 1972 presented a new challenge for both director and composer marking Rollin's departure from his vampire movie comfort zone to this surreal melodramatic ghost sex story and resulting in perhaps the duo’s most unique collaboration. Combining bizarre vocalisations, stripped down minimal piano and subtle Parisian funk themes (echoing the likes of Alain Goraguer's La Planete Sauvage and Karl Heinz Schäfer's Les Gants Blancs Du Diable) Le Rose De Fer arguably hears Raph at his most accomplished, adhering to a solid consistent theme tune and using a varied range of disciplines to convey it via the films precarious schizoid screenplay. For fans of Rollin regulars Acanthus, Philippe d'Aram and Francois Tusques this release is essential, but as a stand alone piece Le Rose De Fer is totally unique and, like the film itself, succeeds as the tortoise champion taking first place on many long-term Rollinades lists while his trademark vamps dodge the sunlight.

Pierre Raph - Song For Francoise

You Are Late

The Second Time

harvest 1
machine room
můra
harvest 2
no reason
1939
harvest 3
train song
můra (reprise)
fine	
le temps de l'amour

music & lyrics by thomas schärer except
"le temps de l'amour" (music: jacques dutronc, lyrics: lucien morisse & andré salvet)
"yet it all seems limitless" is a quote from "the sheltering sky" (paul bowles)
flute & bass clarniet: matthias tschopp

oct 2011 - feb 2012


Fine

Martin - Enjoy The Silence

Polymetric buzz bass click à clickclick. Arranged with Sun Vox tracker and recorded in about 2010/11.

BuzzClick

Erzsebet

Im Bannkreis der Neutronen

Lizzie Stardust - Vocals & Lyrics
Petri Parkkali - Music
Cursed Tapes 2014

Zoomonk & Lizzie Stardust - Spice Dust Girl

Staubfänger is Thomas Schärer from Zurich, Switzerland

7 sets (albums/ep's): Belka, Polaris, Japanese for spring, Harvest, Blink, Ribbons & 23 places to hide

If you choose a set, click on the picture to see tracklist and credits 

