Comments on: Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and “Les maîtres du temps”

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:52:15 +0000

Hi, yes you should definitely see Gandahar too, really good. As far as I could tell, that opening music is by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre too. I would love to hear a clean version of it (without the film’s sound effects) as it is a really excellent tune!

By: Johnsson

Johnsson — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:48:16 +0000

Just watched this movie and loved it, it seems from the comments that now i must watch Gandahar… thanks for the music clips, that end theme is hauntingly awesome… by the way, do you have any idea (from the DVD) of the thumping music at the beginning of the movie?

Thanks!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:03:29 +0000

Yes, I saw Gandahar, totally blew me away! It’s a shame that Rene Laloux only made 3 three full-length features, but I guess we should be grateful for the amazingness that he did produce. Unfortunately the “maitres du temps” soundtrack seems to be pretty hard to get hold of these days, not sure it was actually released anywhere outside of France in the first place. Anyway, thanks for the comment. Like you, I think I’ll be watching these films many many more times in the future!

By: paul harvey

paul harvey — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:19:58 +0000

I wonder if you ever managed to track down the actual ‘Les maîtres du temps’ soundtrack? I tend to watch the film along with Fantastic Planet & Gandahar at least once a year and each time it re-kindles my interest in tracking it down!

Did you manage to see Gandahar? An absolute mind-blowing animation of cosmic proportions…like cosmic disco music and radical philosophy, the French seem to do it so much better than the rest! Rene Laloux & Moebius are the gods of psychedelic animation (with honourable mention to the Japanese, particularly Belladona Of Sadness, the essence of seventies trippy animation)

PS> The Universal Energy album is one of my all time favourite French cosmic-prog-discoid seventies productions, worthy of anything my other two French gods, Jean-Pierre Massiera & Bernard Fevre ever put out so a good choice to put up, clearly a person of taste at work

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:48:54 +0000

Hmmm, I don’t know that I’ve seen that concatenation of words before: “excellent disco track”…. They’re all proper English words–they just don’t seem to make sense together! I wouldn’t say it was “excellent,” but I will concede that that song did suck less than most disco trax….

By: dH

dH — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:32:48 +0000

Thanks for the music! Excellent, I love this cartoon and the soundtrack as well. Part of my childhood. I was about 4-5 years old in Hungary when I first saw it. I watched it many times since that as an adult.