Tim Gane And Sean O' Hagan - La Vie D'Artiste OST

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4...according to our Mingus on Thu 06 Sep, 2007.

Tim Gane & Sean O'Hagan: 'La Vie d'Artiste' OST (Too Pure), On first listening and without any knowledge of the title or seeing the details I assumed messers Gane & O'Hagan had taken a foray into producing some music for some film soundtrack archive. Turns out I was right...such well managed cultured ears ehh?! not a million miles from Stereolab either in the tones, tunes, textures and atmospheres, oh and erm it's instrumental. In fact I think it's a more polished version of Stereolab with strings and horns. Heavily reminiscent of the sort of Library Music produced by guys like Eddie Warner et al, if you like lush, warm and polished mood music that verges on the boundary between Muzak and pop then you'll love this collection of sharp snippets, interludes and atmospheres then don that smoking jacket and get the pipe and slippers out. I wonder what the film is like?

Tim ‘Stereolab’ Gane & Sean ‘The High Llamas’ O’Hagan team up to compose and record a film soundtrack that combines the best of their own oeuvres. A 2CD set featuring bonus material. Tim Gane and Sean O’Hagan (respectively of Stereolab and High Llamas fame) put their heads together to pen the music for a new French comedy ‘La Vie d’Artiste’, which will be screened in France this September, with a release elsewhere following not long after. The film itself follows the life of three separate artists - lives which inadvertently affect one another: a singer wishes to break free from her days of waitressing, a teacher strives to be a writer (finally driven to stealing the work of a pupil) and a would-be Broadway actress feels frustrated in her cartoon voiceover day job. The soundtrack, a humble touch of everything we ever loved about Stereolab, gracefully reflects the cast as they each strive to create their own destinies.

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