Borsalino - Borsalino & Co - Doucement le Basses! - Flic Story - Les Musiques Originales et les Dialogues (2001)/ Bolling, Claude

Mention Claude Bolling and the cheeky, catchy music for the Borsalino, redolent of smoke filled saloons and honky-tonk pianos comes to mind. Here we have the music for the original gangster film and its sequel Borsalino & Co. The album includes the big band jazz sound reminiscent of 1940s Louis Armstrong for ‘Art Déco’ from the original film and from the sequel some Alain Delon dialogue, Jacqueline Dano’s siren song ‘Lola’, and some snatches of intrigue, violence orientated music with a wryly ironically comic edge laced with laconic dialogue and sound effects. The comedy Doucement les basses starred Delon again and concerned a priest faced with the problem of marriage. In Flic Story Alain Delon is a detective mercilessly hunting down public enemy number one through the streets of Paris. Consequently there is much emphasis given to the popular strains of the accordion. Bolling’s music mixes popular nostalgic music idioms with take-offs of standard thriller/detective motifs even alluding to 007! (Ian Lace)|