Titties & Ski
The first half of the 70s saw a virtual shitload of soft sex comedies. While the wave of the enormously successful German Schulmädchen Reports gushed over Europe, French-Canadian filmmakers also tried to cash in on the phenomenon. 1971’s Après-Ski (a.k.a. Snowballin’ – The Exciting New Indoor-Outdoor Sport!) was among those movies, and while the funk-scored hardcore of Deep Throat was still a year away, Ski director Roger Carling jazzed up his story with some legendary grooves as well. For more than three decades, the rare Ski soundtrack was regarded as the Québécois Holy Grail of Funk; for the complete story of the record, see here. Now re-released by Les Disques Pluton, it maybe doesn’t fully live up to its myth, but comes with some remarkably fat, fusion-like moments by Canadian band Illustration, plus a solemn chanson by actress Mariette Lévesque (see right) – une adorable femme de neige.
Mariette Lévesque – Dors avec moi
thx, dom. downloading now.
There’s also a full LP via the link at the end of the post.
merci, dom. a worthy 45.
I was a bit underwhelmed by Apres Ski. A far better Quebecois softcore ST is Valerie (which never had an official release). Just the right measure of kitsch, erotica, exotica and sex, and it has some nice snippets of dialogue and SFX too.
I discovered it via Psyquébélique, who bootlegged it along with a couple of other blogs – see: http://psyquebelique.blogspot.com/2010/01/psyquebelique-presentevalerie-michel.html
a fave combination
I first read Titties & Sky.
This is officially the best headline EVER for a post on this blog!