LES SECRETS DE LA MERROUGE

Transversales Disques presents for the first time on LP, François de Roubaix’s full
score for the French TV series Les Secrets de la Mer Rouge, an adaptation of the epic
travel, through the Middle East, of the famous writer and explorer Henri de Monfreid. This
album is a collection of the original (1967) themes and those recorded later in 1975 when
the TV series was continued.
In the 1967 soundtrack, de Roubaix uses various flutes, marine conches, and for
underwater views, unexpected instruments such as a celesta or a crystal xylophone. By
1975, electronic technology had dramatically developed and this evolution is clearly
apparent when one listens to the recordings of the two seasons. For the later 1975 series,
de Roubaix composed a new music score, mixing old and new sounds, a great combination
of EMS VCS3 synthesizer subtly mixed with acoustic instruments.
For François de Roubaix, there was never a border between fiction, life and music, and
writing music for Les secrets de la Mer Rouge was an extension of his love of the open sea.

TRACKLIST:
A1. Celima
A2. Du vent dans les voiles
A3. La vie à bord
A4. Marche dans la montagne
A5. Enterrement de Said Ali
A6. Générique
A7. La mer, la nuit
A8. Pêcheur de perles
A9. Les plus belles perles du monde
A10. Thème de l’adieu (final)
A11. Générique (version 2)
B1. Mafia au Moyen-Orient
B2. Hadji
B3. La pêche
B4. Amina
B5. L’esclave Gabré
B6. Les pirates
B7. L’enlèvement
B8. L’évasion
B9. Désert
B10. Amina (version 2)