Karl Heinz Schafer:Cardoni
Karl Heinz Schafer & Leonie:Couleurs
From the OST: Les Gants Blancs Du Diable [Eden Roc,1973]
In 1973 Karl Heinz schafer wrote the haunting, yet beautiful soundtrack to the Movie ‘Les Gants Blanc Du Diable’. The Film is a French, government conspiracy type thriller, the plot of which revolves around a one eyed gun man who gives up his only eye, causing him to learn to shoot using sound alone. I have not seen the film but with a plot like this Im definetly keen to find a copy, you would have thought it was a comedy, not a thriller, you could easily milk two series on BBC 3 out of the ‘blind hit-man’ concept. Anyway it gave someone the excuse to make some awesome OST album artwork (check up top) definitely one of my favourite covers.
The LP for the soundtrack is really hard to pick up and normally sells for lots of money, but you can pick up the 45 like I did, this came out at the same time but does not cost so much, it contains two of the best tracks from the LP and also has the dope cover.
The music is some of the best French soundtrack material you will here, up there with ‘Melody Nelson’ and ‘Le Planete Sauvage’ except nobody’s sampled this, yet. The lady on the back of the cover (up above) is the vocalist to ‘Couleurs’ Leonie, who’s oral talents will leave you hot under the collar. Leonie really does have an incredible voice but aside from this outing, it seems she was involved in very few recordings, I only know of a couple of other 45’s that she did. which is a shame because I want to marry her, even though she may look like a bit of a crack addict.
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She might be too senior citezen for you at this point.
*citizen*
sigh… true…
theres always time travel!
the first minute I heard "cardoni", I though for sure that it was a David Axelrod production – nice work by Heinz Schafer. And nice post, too! Thanks for the eye (and ear) opener…..
Killer tracks Matt, enjoying these immensely.
These two tracks have completely brightened up my day, thankyou for sharing this.
This makes me reminisce of La Planete Sauvage… especially the way the bass and strings are treated. By the way, who did that soundtrack anyways?
alain goraguer was responsible for le planete sauvage
Great stuff as usual man, thank you.
Do you have any more info on the movie by any chance?
Also, do you know of any other work by Schafer? I can't seem to find anything on either one.
THESE ARE FANTASTIC!!! Amazing finds and great post…I can't find much more i nformation about the composers.
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I sampled les gants blancs du diable, but we never finished the track. There's so many records to sample.
Pierre (France)
Dope tracks indeed!!
Would asking to post the whole LP be asking too much??
It is Christmas! (well, last week anyway)
If you read the post you would realise I only have the 45
the LP is hard to come by I believe the track cardoni has a different name on the LP, this may have been a mistake on the 45 i dont know
N/M. I found it.
dope samples
This ost is just been reissued by Vadim! I've just got it. It's too short but beautiful! Good find.