I finally tracked down a copy of the soundtrack album for Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s Delicatessen. It’s nowhere to be found on Amazon, and the usually reliable AllMusic Database knows nothing about it. SoundtrackCollector, however, tells me it was released — only in France and Japan — in 1991, when the film was released. The track I’ve linked here is the highlight, the ethereal duet of ‘cello and musical saw.
Duo (Carlos d’Allessio) 2.30 (4.2MB)
I suppose there’s a really, really good reason why this album — one of the best soundtracks of the past twenty years, in my opinion — has never seen the light of day in the anglophone world, but I cannot imagine what it would be…
(audio files available for a limited time for educational/evaluation purposes, and all that stuff)
Hi,
I have been looking for this soundtrack as well for ages… Especially the track with the squeaky bed. Any Idea where I could get it from?
Falk
Try Bittorrent. The squeaky bed track, “Tales of Old Hawaii”, is included without the bed squeaking, however. For that, you’d have to rip the soundtrack from the movie itself…
@pilgrim
Thanks! Any suggestions for a good ripping software? mine only rips whole dvds…
For this sort of task, I use SoundEdit, on a Mac. It will capture whatever audio passes through the computer, in or out. I’m sure there must be many similar utilities for PC or indeed Linux…
I had this beautifully wonky and bizarre soundtrack on cassette for many years and from that cassette burned a very hissy CD-R. I’ve subsequently downloaded a superior Torrent of it, which is easy to find on the web. The only thing I would say about this torrent is that track listing is wrong in terms of order.
Wonky cassette recordings can have a charm all of their own, it’s true. I’ve had several recordings over the years which turned out not to be as sonically interesting when I heard them on CD.
As you say, the Delicatessen soundtrack album is out of sequence with the movie. All the Carlos d’Alessio tracks are brought to the front, with everything else just tacked on the end. If I was still playing CDs, I’d be tempted to burn a new play order, but since I rarely play any album from end to end anymore, I’m just letting the best tracks float to the surface.
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Thank you for the info about Delicatessen – I love this movie (it’s a musical saw staple!)
All the best,
‘Saw Lady‘
The Saw Lady! Cool.
If you’ve got a Mac, Wire Tap Pro is a darned fine stream grabber.
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/wiretap/
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Hello there, I just saw a commercial on tv that used this music, at first it was just hauntingly familiar. I went to the site that features the commercial (it’s weird, a website dedicated to commercials & ads) found the commercial (for someone called Once, whatever that is) and as I watched the commercial I realized I was sure it was the music the pair of lovers play at the end of Delicatessen…so further searching brought me here, where I was able to confirm that this was the song…
In short, thanks so much for making this track available.
P.S. Firebrand, the weird commercial website, doesn’t even give credit for the music. Shame.
http://rapidshare.com/files/65834339/Delicatessen_Soundtrack.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/65836392/Delicatessen_Soundtrack.part2.rar