Eric Serra – The Big Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (VG+/VG) – LP, UK 1988

The Big Blue (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is an LP by Eric Serra from 1988 released on the Virgin Movie Music label.

About this album

Le Grand Bleu is Eric Serra’s most celebrated soundtrack, a distinctive fusion of electronic textures, contemporary jazz and modern classical writing that helped define the sound of Luc Besson’s 1988 film. Built around the film’s oceanic mood, Serra’s score moves between spacious themes, blues inflections and submerged rhythmic pulses, giving the story of freediver Jacques Mayol a lyrical, dreamlike force. The album became one of the best-known French screen scores of its era and remains central to Serra’s reputation, admired for its memorable main theme and for the way it translates the film’s scale, melancholy and mystery into music.