Alain Goraguer is mostly known as the composer and arranger who provides the mysterious psychedelic backdrop for the notoriously pompous yet brilliant French singer Serge Gainsbourg. One of Goraguer's lesser known contributions is the soundtrack for the 1973 animated cult film "La Planète Sauvage", a bizarre acid-cartoon about a planet where humans either live in the wild or are kept as pets by gigantic blue beings that communicate telepathically by means of deep meditation and astral projection. The surrealistic nature of the film is heightened by the apropos soundtrack provided by Alain Goraguer, an eerie psych-funk score that includes several variations on the title theme, and even borders on no-wave during some of the more driving sections (see: "Mort de Draag" for a riff that sounds uncannily like Sonic Youth).
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