Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage (1973)
Has anyone coined the term "dream funk"? [ed. note: A quick Google search reveals some death metal band in the UK goes by that name, as well as a Japanese techno artist on MySpace, but they're unsigned, so screw them] If not, then I'd like to officially apply that term to the music of Alain Goraguer. This album is the soundtrack to an animated French sci-fi film called La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet). I've never gotten high on any sort of psychedelics, but if the YouTube clips tell me anything, then this seems one film to avoid watching while on an acid trip.
The surrealistic animation fits extremely well with the music, and vice versa. Effects-laden guitar and synthesizers establish the dreamlike atmosphere, and combined with the flute and rhythmic bass riffs, the album is also groovy at times. The result is a sound that's sounds equal parts Curtis Mayfield and Robert Wyatt: unique to the point that it deserves to be considered a genre all its own. A genre in need of a name. Might I recommend Dream Funk? No? Well...fine then.
Score: 8/10
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