Back again with some more unknown Belgian soundtracks!
First time ever on Seven inch Sundays i will also post a lp-track.
“Het Verloren Paradijs” (Paradise Lost) is a Belgian film by Harry Kumel about the construction of highway that would cut right through the town center.
The residents of this small town revolt against the construction. The soundtrack of this film was conceived by Roger Mores and sung by Belgian singer Cindy. Roger Mores was a Belgian composer and orchestra-leader who recorded mostly soundtracks.
“Salut en de kost” is a Belgian film by Patrick Le Bon. After serving in the army, twenty-year-old Billy has developed an aversion to all forms of authority. He moves in with his girlfriend (much against the wishes of his father, a wealthy factory owner), but will later accept a job in his factory. When a fatal accident occurs there due to the profit-hungry management, Billy rebels again against his father’s authority…
Once again the soundtrack of this film was composed by Roger Mores and sung by Belgian Folksinger Zjef Vanuytsel. Roland van campenhout plays harmonica on the instrumental track.
“Het geheim dat bloed zag” is a Belgian film by Georges Heerman. The old baron of Destelbergen is dying in the ancestral castle. He confides to his son the secret of a great treasure, and the map in a small metal container. The clumsy, socially awkward heir is too occupied with staring a life as lord of the manor and hiring a foxy housekeeper and looses the ‘key’ in the estate gardens. It’s found by a knave playing around with other kids, but after a poacher overhears the new baron promise his manservant Pieter a hefty reward to find it, keeps it after the airhead mother throws away the content of the rascal’s trousers, only to end up murdered by Pieter. The kids still prove the saving angels and get rewarded.
Dirk Brossé composed the soundtrack for this belgian film.
“Zaman” is a Belgian Film by Patrick Le Bon. An undercover inspector of the Antwerp criminal investigation unit faces problems not only in his professional life, but also at home. When he is partnered with a young, over-confident colleague, he loses control over the case in hand, a situation that further takes its toll on his marriage. He’s forced to ask himself whether his job is an addiction, a hunt for people that becomes more exciting the shrewder his opponent is.
Belgian composer Francois Glorieux recorded the soundtrack for this Belgian film. The title track is a cinematic placebo-like Jazz-funk slamdunk. recorded with members from the BRT Big Band.
We’ve got some more Belgian soundtracks lined-up this week. Hope you like ‘em!
“Le sixieme sens” is a French-Swiss mini-series about a young violin player who could become a new Paganini. Louis Marischal is a Belgian composer, conductor and violinist. He composed songs for french artists like Andre Vasseur and many others and composed some interresting classical pieces.
“Réflexions de José” is a great neo-classical piece!
“Jules Brunin accuse… ou les enfants de l’oubli” is a documentary film about institutionalised children. Belgian songwriter Giuseppe Soccio composed this song for Albert Delchambre.
“Les enfants de l’oubli” is a moody synth-laden tearjerker!
“Kind van de Zon” tells the story of a young woman with mental problems told in a none-chronological fashion. Pieter Verlinden was a Belgian composer and arranger for mostly soundtrack music (Dood van een non, De 5 van de 4-daagse…) who also worked as sonorisator for the BRT / VRT (Belgian state television in Flanders).
“Kind van de zon” is a sad melancholic song.
This Seven Inch Sunday l’ll share some more tunes of “The Belgian Soundtrack: A Musical Connection of Belgium with Cinema.”
Roger Mores was a Belgian composer and orchestra-leader who recorded mostly soundtracks. “Dancing” is a Belgian freakbeat dancer with funky library attitude and some great Hammond organ!
Krzysztof Komeda composed the music for “Le Départ”, A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser’s apprentice, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche under him for his nearing debut race.
Krzystof got help from not one, but two of Belgium’s greatest Jazz-legends. Phillip Catherine and Jacques Pelzer!
Jean Pierre Bigman is a Belgian composer who wrote the music for “Kruiswegstraat 6”
“Evelyn” is Belgian singer Evelyne D´haese. Evelyne is most known for her collaboration with Sharif Dean on “Do you love me?”.
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Sdban Records, the Belgian based label behind Funky Chicken, Funky Chimes, Let´s Get Swinging, Hip Holland Hip, and Discophilia Belgica, will release another essential compilation album!
“The Belgian Soundtrack: A Musical Connection of Belgium with Cinema.”
Be sure to grab a copy while they last, as collecting all these original rare grooves will set you back Mucho Dinero´s.
Check out Bandcamp!
https://sdbanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-belgian-soundtrack-a-musical-connection-of-belgium-with-cinema-1961-1979
I´ll be sharing some of the tracks featured on this release over the next few weeks.
Courage Fuyons is a french romantic comedy film about a married coward who falls in love with a beautiful girl and elopes to Amsterdam.
Vladimir Cosma did the soundtrack with the help of Belgian jazz Great Philip Catherine.
“Courage fuyons” is a groovy, laidback lounge track, with Philip´s signature jazz licks. Sounds like heaven to me!
Les Tueurs Fous is a detective movie dealing with adult themes like juvenile delinquency, serial killers and homosexuality.
Belgian band Salix Alba´s first release was the soundtrack to this french film.
One of my favorite Belgian 45´s i own!
“La vol de la voiture” is a cinematic library-style track with commanding flutes and a nervous bass.
Le treizieme caprice (the thirteenth whim) is a french drama film about a teacher who gets seduced by a handsome woman on new years eve. He discovers he´s her thirteenth “whim” allowed by her lover.
Louis Marischal is a Belgian composer, conductor and violinist.
He composed songs for french artists like Andre Vasseur and many others and composed some interresting classical pieces.
“Tu m´tapes sur les nerves” is a comedic groovy jerk track with a long drumbreak at the end.
We´ve got some extraordinary groovy tunes lined up, on this windy Seven inch Sunday!
Voyage de Charme was the brainchild of Belgian musician, author and composer Roberto Gobessi.
Roberto composed numerous songs for 80s New Wave and Disco bands. “Hôtel des savannes” is a Hi-NRG, Synth-Wave banger.
“The Convention” was a Belgian rockband with Bruno Libert.
Liber previously played in Belgian garage-band “The Samo-Reds” and in “Esperanto” a Belgian Prog-rock outfit.
“Gin fizz” is a funky mod groover of epic proportions!
“Evelyn” is Belgian singer Evelyne D´haese.
Evelyne is most known for her collaboration with Sharif Dean on “Do you love me?”.
“Musicien” is a haunting folkrock track.
We’ve got some excellent 45’s lined up, on this sunny Seven inch Sunday.
It’s been a long time, i shouldn’t have left you! Without some dope 45’s to step to. We’ve got some great 45’s lined up this week. lots of new old stuff waiting in our crates to be unleashed in the coming weeks.
S.O.S. Champagne was the brainchild of Belgian Multi-intrumentalist Christian Rineldi. “Tout Chromes tout flammes, c’est chrome & flammes” is a great kitchy glam-disco track.
Anna rosa was a Belgian artist coming from Liège. The music for “O toi Bossa Nova” was written by Jean St paul. (check out his jerk’in in the night) Can’t seem to find much info about her. if anyone knows more please contact me!
Crischa (Georgina baert) released a couple of interesting singles in the early seventies. She is married to Belgian impressario Jean Martin. (the owner of the Belgian “Smoke” and “Espera” -labels). On “Paix sur terre” she is backed by Belgian prog-rock legends Waterloo.
If you like phasing drums, vocoders and electric violins, you’re gonna love our fresh batch of Belgian 45’s, we’ve got lined-up for you!
Dan lacksman is the man behind Trans Volta. Dan is one of the most important pioneers of Belgian electronic music.
He released some early electronic music as the “Electronic System” in 1973. Check out his epic track “skylab” wich is about 15 minutes long.
After this he formed electro pop group TELEX together with Marc Moulin. Telex performed on the Eurovison contest in 1980 with EURO-vision
They became second to last place. A bit disappointing because they wanted to finish last. “Disco computer” sounds very much like a daft punk demo.
Belgian Soul monuments “Jess and James” are aided by electric cello player and composer Denis Van Hecke.
Denis was a legendary Belgian cello player. He played in mythic bands like Aksak Maboel, Cos and The Wallace Collection.
“A Man’s Symphony” is a brooding downtempo groove, with a haunting cello and a mini break at 5’10.
In 1959 Dany Fisher joined “Het Spoetniks Ensemble”and they became “De Spoetniks”, a Belgian Rock ’n Roll ensemble.
“Flying Monsters” is a funky tune with phasing drums and haunting organs.
Les Delfinis were the backing band of famous Belgian singer Adamo. On releases with Adamo they were often credited as “I. Delfini” or “Orchestre I. Delfini”, because of this they are sometimes confused with the croatian band with the same name. They released 3 great 45’s as “Les Delfinis” and also played as “The lucky Band”
fun fact: Adamo wrote a song called “Dolce Paola”. Paola was the wife of Prince Albert of Belgium and would later become the queen of Belgium. Adamo was rumoured to have had an affair with Paola
Can’t tell you much about Gregg other than his singing is a bit “Wack”. The Gram Brothers on the other hand have delivered a nice electro style hiphop instrumental.
They produced a couple more songs for gregg wich are in the same vein as “Try to give a little love”
Garcia was the son of trumpeter Janot Morales. He played drums in some legendary Belgian bands like The Cousins, The Klan” and The JJ Band.
“Sous le Soleil” has some nice Bossanova vibes. Enjoy!!!
2022 is gonna be a great year, if you like Seven inch Sundays! We’ve got a lot of
great 45’s to share with you. We also got some guest collectors lined-up who’ll be taking over our channel.
So stay tuned!
Be shure to check out the interview i gave to world famous podcaster David Chouferbad.
Featuring lots of upcoming tracks for the “Up to Eleven” youtube-channel.
Dream Express orchestra was the backing band of Dream express, a cheesy Belgian disco group founded by Luc Smets in 1970.
Luc Smets was a founding member of 60s band “The Pebbles”, who had an international hit with “Seven horses in the sky”.
After The Pebbles broke up, Luc started Shampoo, a Belgian jazz-rock band. Be sure to check out their first lp. Great jazz-rock not unlike Placebo and Plus.
On their second lp they became the backing band of “The Hearts of Soul” a dutch soul group with 3 sisters.
This collaboration evolved into Dream express.
Aril laury started out at age nine as a accordionist. When he was 19, he turned to synthezisers.
His first single was “Moody”. released in 1982 on the tiny Belgian “fly” label.
Guy cant really sing. Thank god he had some good pruducers!
Eddy & Danny van passel, twin brothers, born June 15th 1957. They produced some nice funky disco tracks in the late eighties/ early seventies.
The backing track sounds like daft punk and quincy jones teamed up.
We’ve got 3 absolute bangers for you to discover on this sunny Seven inch Sunday.
“Joëlle” was a young Belgian singer. On this track she is backed by Belgian jazzman Willy Mortier.
“Bossaminova” is a beautiful sung bossa nova track.
“Bird and the Bees” was a group led by legendary Belgian musician Sylvain Vanholme.
Sylvain would become a founding member of “The Wallace Collection” who had a huge hit in 1969 with “Daydream””Hold the Line” is a psychedelic baroque masterpiece.
“Paul’s collection” was a Belgian rock band from Antwerp, founded in 1969 by singer Paul Syniawsky.
They released 3 excellent 45’s
“Man” is a Fantastic psychedelic poptune.
“Hot Steam” is written and produced by famed Belgian musician Ralph Benatar. Benatar was a core member of the JJ band, Plus and El Chicles.
“The Mol Percussion Band” was founded by Leo Ouderitz in the Belgian city of “Mol”. It’s members were student percussionists of the local music academy.
Unfortunately our Belgian Red Devils are no longer in the European Championship. To ease the pain we’ve come up with an extra soothing Seven inch Sunday.
Enjoy!
“Marine” was a Belgian based funky new wave band formed around singer Marc Marine. When Marc left, the rest of the band were joined by singer Sarah Osborne and went on to form “Allez Allez”.This is their first ever release on a 7″ flexi disc. I hope the people at “Les Disques Du Crépuscule” still have the mastertapes of this session. It deserves a proper release. “Tshombé” is a post punk deep funk banger.
“Rush” (not to be confused with the canadian progrock band) was a Belgian studio group.
They released a single 45. “A little chance” was written by Jack Donder (aka Jean Vanloo).Check out this psychedelic disco masterpiece.
“The Jet Set” was a band comprised of Belgian jazz musicians who played the backing track for the Protan Clappers.
“Protan” is a keyboard heavy electrofunk jam.
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Here we go again with the funky instro. Another batch of fresh 45’s on this sunny “Seven inch Sunday”
“Mad Unity” was a Jazz-funk outfit from Belgium, comprising several well-known studio musicians.(Dan Lacksman, Koen De Bruyne, Jean Pierre Onreadt)They’re mainly known for backing Janko Nilovic.
“Sitting Bull” is a killer jazz-funk track.
“Chakachas” was a Belgian based group founded in 1958 by bandleader Gaston Bogaert. They played a mixture of Latin music, jazz, and European-style exotica. After a musical eclipse in the mid-sixties, the band is reassembled a few years later, in a new line-up and with a different sound; this time, the band’s made up of session musicians, who are also part of other bands or projects (see also El Chicles, Chicken Curry & His Pop Percussion Orchestra, The Sumos, Plus, The S.S.O. Orchestra, Lord Funk ). The new Chakachas go for a mix of Latin/Soul/Funk/Jazz/Afro. The bulk of the songs is provided by Willy Albimoor and Nico Gomez.
“Africa Yama” is an funky exotic groove, reminiscent of “Tropicola” by “Stringtronics”
“Recreation” was a Belgian progressive band hailing from the town of Liege.
This instrumental trio was inspired by such bands as The Nice and Soft Machine. “Fallen Astronauts” was based on Antonin Dvorak’s: New World Symphony.
Check out the fantastic belgian recordlabel “Stoffige Vingers”
They’re specialized in obscure Belgian grooves.
They just released a ten inch called “last bongo in Belgium” wich includes some tracks from the “Seven inch Sundays”-series.
Don’t sleep and buy this lp now before they are al gone.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Last-Bongo-In-Belgium/release/19092130
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