Maxwill
09-20-2014, 04:48 PM
The Cremator
Spalovač mrtvol / Der Leichenverbrenner
The intense and timeless score by one of Europe’s finest composers, for some the Morricone of Czech films
Zdeněk Liška
01 Merciful Nature 2:12
02 Spalovač mrtvol (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-5n1U_aLg) 3:18
03 Potala Tibet 0:24
04 Gifted Zina 0:44
05 Holy Pictures 0:21
06 This Charming Lady 1:22
07 Mr. Strauss Crosses The Road 0:55
08 Mr. Dvor�k And The Timetable Of Death 2:20
09 Mili's Carousel (Lovely Acrobatics) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s2vhaVGr94) 1:15
10 Waxworks / The Baths Of Franzensbad 3:19
11 Drosophila Funebris 1:07
12 How Unfortunate Are Those Who Die Unaware Of The Beauty Of Music / Lakm�'s Preparation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5GPOlRWbI) 2:27
13 Louis Marin 0:12
14 Miss Dagmar's Room (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e71siO6C_v4) 1:28
15 Poor Miss Carska 1:09
16 Mournful Cantor (Jewish Prayer) 1:24
17 Kopfrkingl Salutes Death 0:49
18 Casino On Rose Street (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8vw6wKTLjA) 2:05
19 Vision Of The Temple 1:19
20 Lakm�'s Cremation 0:36
21 The Throne In Lhasa Awaits 1:28
22 H. Bosch 1:45
23 Running Zina / The Stars Are Above Us 2:54
24 I Shall Sit On The Throne 1:26
Total Time: 36:19
Galvanising our ongoing commitment to the lost music of the Czech New Wave cinema movement from the late 1960s and 1970s, Finders Keepers Records follow up our series of previously unreleased music to Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders, Daisies, Saxana and The Little Mermaid with a short series of soundtracks for films by the country’s master of the macabre and the nation’s first point of call for freakish fairytales and hallucinogenic horror, Mr. Juraj Herz.
As another late entry to the unparalleled creative cinematic unison known in Europe as “the Czech film miracle”, Juraj Herz’s 1969 feature film The Cremator was one of a clutch of certified cinematic literary adaptations that used the apolitical subjects of fantasy and surrealist horror to evade the communist censors’ abortive measures; dodging the overzealous cutting and burning process which poetically echoed the films own macabre and fantas- tical screenplay. Unifying a cast and crew of some of the Czech New Wave’s leading lights, Herz’s macabre depiction of Ladislav Fuks’ fictional account of a local crematorium boss whose hallucinogenic burning obsession with the afterlife is ignited by the Tibetan Book Of The Dead and intensifying manipulative Nazi propaganda is undeniably one of the greatest underexposed European horror films of all time.
Drawing similarities with other stark monochrome thrillers such as Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, Herz’s comparatively untravelled classic also boasts a beguiling score and theme tune that remains one of the most memorable and spine-chilling melodic soundtracks by the country’s finest experimental soundtrack composer Zdeněk Liška (Mal� Mořsk� V�la) providing the movement with one of its best loved signature scores. Featuring an ongoing part- nership with studio conductor František Belf�n (Daisies) and soprano singer Vlasta Soumarov� Mlejnkov� (Marketa Lazarov�), Liška puts his radical con- cr�te and resampling techniques (see Ikarie XB1) to one side in favour of celestial choral and orchestral arrangements; menacing giallo-esque tension and recurring rhythmical motifs of Eastern bells and chimes illustrating Rudolf Hruš�nsk�’s Kopfrkingl character’s demise into murderous infatuation and the momentary cameo shots of the hallucinogenic death figure played by Helena An�zov� (Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders/Daisies).
From a country and era when isolated soundtrack music remained commercially unreleased Finders Keepers Records are proud to rescue, remaster and reincarnate this intense and timeless score by one of Europe’s finest composers taking a rare excursion into horror territory as part of a filmography of more than 200 formerly unpressed film scores.
Interview with Juraij Herz about The Cremator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1iizl9CjhQ)
Sample 1 (https://mega.nz/#!ekgShASR!J-cm8S0Yh6GCQsQjmgT02V3zTyA8KcDTqlPSeqpZlUA) / Sample 2 (https://mega.nz/#!f5AWCIDJ!t2u9uFRh-Pv_70yIG2mLngoPhsXPyB_O4szJFMQrd5I) / Sample 3 (https://mega.nz/#!n1pnDJAJ!pd0FHc7UMMOL6omB9GpslU66IQPSXzpQXJP3HmJdJYY)
Previously unreleased, the soundtrack to the Czech New Wave's greatest (and, in the case of "The Cremator", most notorious) film has finally been made available by the splendid Finders Keepers label. Finders Keepers have been singular in their admirable determination to ensure that the few dedicated souls passionate about this under sung but crucial moment in European cinema history can enjoy the accompanying music, be it the dark Victoriana of "Valerie And Her Week of Wonders" or the jazzier, contemporary Euro-pop of "Saxanna" (the original teenage witch).
"The Cremator" is a monochrome allegory involving the eponymous character who, obsessed with the afterlife and his own increasingly demented moral code, carries out atrocities first against his fellow men and then finally his own family. There are obvious references to Nazi Germany and the Czech experience of communist oppression at the time cannot be underestimated when considering the film's social commentary (a number of "The Cremator"s surrealist elements were a deliberate attempt to fly under the censor's radar). A chilling and understated film, it contrasts with the more flamboyant and gothic styling of other Czech gems such as "Valerie" or the day glow anarchy of "Daisies". Instead "The Cremator" is more akin to German Expressionism or Bergman's darker, more nihilistic portrayals of what it means to be human.
Composer Zdeněk Liška's previous work on another Czech classic "Mal� Mořsk� V�la" (The Little Mermaid) was a stunning mix of electronics and baroque orchestral work, filled with harpsichord and chimes. For "The Cremator" he employs an almost fairy tale like sense of magic and wonder in the use of choir and playful strings, quite at odds with the dark undertow of the movie but deliberately underscoring the increasingly unsettling mismatch of the protagonist's deranged world view and his respectable appearance. Hints of darker goings on begin to emerge from more conventional passages as the music itself indicates that behind the publicly acceptable and polite persona "The Cremator" is both sociopathic and deeply insane; merry-go-rounds and oompah segue into off- key trumpet squalls as both the film and its accompanying soundtrack reveal the dark heart of our narrator. (Review by Grey Malkin (The Hare & The Moon))
Leave your request here if you're interested
Information about the film at IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063633/) and Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cremator)
Enjoy! And don't forget to thank, rep and like ;)
You may also enjoy the other albums from this composer in my personal music thread.
Spalovač mrtvol / Der Leichenverbrenner
The intense and timeless score by one of Europe’s finest composers, for some the Morricone of Czech films
Zdeněk Liška
01 Merciful Nature 2:12
02 Spalovač mrtvol (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-5n1U_aLg) 3:18
03 Potala Tibet 0:24
04 Gifted Zina 0:44
05 Holy Pictures 0:21
06 This Charming Lady 1:22
07 Mr. Strauss Crosses The Road 0:55
08 Mr. Dvor�k And The Timetable Of Death 2:20
09 Mili's Carousel (Lovely Acrobatics) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s2vhaVGr94) 1:15
10 Waxworks / The Baths Of Franzensbad 3:19
11 Drosophila Funebris 1:07
12 How Unfortunate Are Those Who Die Unaware Of The Beauty Of Music / Lakm�'s Preparation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5GPOlRWbI) 2:27
13 Louis Marin 0:12
14 Miss Dagmar's Room (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e71siO6C_v4) 1:28
15 Poor Miss Carska 1:09
16 Mournful Cantor (Jewish Prayer) 1:24
17 Kopfrkingl Salutes Death 0:49
18 Casino On Rose Street (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8vw6wKTLjA) 2:05
19 Vision Of The Temple 1:19
20 Lakm�'s Cremation 0:36
21 The Throne In Lhasa Awaits 1:28
22 H. Bosch 1:45
23 Running Zina / The Stars Are Above Us 2:54
24 I Shall Sit On The Throne 1:26
Total Time: 36:19
Galvanising our ongoing commitment to the lost music of the Czech New Wave cinema movement from the late 1960s and 1970s, Finders Keepers Records follow up our series of previously unreleased music to Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders, Daisies, Saxana and The Little Mermaid with a short series of soundtracks for films by the country’s master of the macabre and the nation’s first point of call for freakish fairytales and hallucinogenic horror, Mr. Juraj Herz.
As another late entry to the unparalleled creative cinematic unison known in Europe as “the Czech film miracle”, Juraj Herz’s 1969 feature film The Cremator was one of a clutch of certified cinematic literary adaptations that used the apolitical subjects of fantasy and surrealist horror to evade the communist censors’ abortive measures; dodging the overzealous cutting and burning process which poetically echoed the films own macabre and fantas- tical screenplay. Unifying a cast and crew of some of the Czech New Wave’s leading lights, Herz’s macabre depiction of Ladislav Fuks’ fictional account of a local crematorium boss whose hallucinogenic burning obsession with the afterlife is ignited by the Tibetan Book Of The Dead and intensifying manipulative Nazi propaganda is undeniably one of the greatest underexposed European horror films of all time.
Drawing similarities with other stark monochrome thrillers such as Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, Herz’s comparatively untravelled classic also boasts a beguiling score and theme tune that remains one of the most memorable and spine-chilling melodic soundtracks by the country’s finest experimental soundtrack composer Zdeněk Liška (Mal� Mořsk� V�la) providing the movement with one of its best loved signature scores. Featuring an ongoing part- nership with studio conductor František Belf�n (Daisies) and soprano singer Vlasta Soumarov� Mlejnkov� (Marketa Lazarov�), Liška puts his radical con- cr�te and resampling techniques (see Ikarie XB1) to one side in favour of celestial choral and orchestral arrangements; menacing giallo-esque tension and recurring rhythmical motifs of Eastern bells and chimes illustrating Rudolf Hruš�nsk�’s Kopfrkingl character’s demise into murderous infatuation and the momentary cameo shots of the hallucinogenic death figure played by Helena An�zov� (Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders/Daisies).
From a country and era when isolated soundtrack music remained commercially unreleased Finders Keepers Records are proud to rescue, remaster and reincarnate this intense and timeless score by one of Europe’s finest composers taking a rare excursion into horror territory as part of a filmography of more than 200 formerly unpressed film scores.
Interview with Juraij Herz about The Cremator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1iizl9CjhQ)
Sample 1 (https://mega.nz/#!ekgShASR!J-cm8S0Yh6GCQsQjmgT02V3zTyA8KcDTqlPSeqpZlUA) / Sample 2 (https://mega.nz/#!f5AWCIDJ!t2u9uFRh-Pv_70yIG2mLngoPhsXPyB_O4szJFMQrd5I) / Sample 3 (https://mega.nz/#!n1pnDJAJ!pd0FHc7UMMOL6omB9GpslU66IQPSXzpQXJP3HmJdJYY)
Previously unreleased, the soundtrack to the Czech New Wave's greatest (and, in the case of "The Cremator", most notorious) film has finally been made available by the splendid Finders Keepers label. Finders Keepers have been singular in their admirable determination to ensure that the few dedicated souls passionate about this under sung but crucial moment in European cinema history can enjoy the accompanying music, be it the dark Victoriana of "Valerie And Her Week of Wonders" or the jazzier, contemporary Euro-pop of "Saxanna" (the original teenage witch).
"The Cremator" is a monochrome allegory involving the eponymous character who, obsessed with the afterlife and his own increasingly demented moral code, carries out atrocities first against his fellow men and then finally his own family. There are obvious references to Nazi Germany and the Czech experience of communist oppression at the time cannot be underestimated when considering the film's social commentary (a number of "The Cremator"s surrealist elements were a deliberate attempt to fly under the censor's radar). A chilling and understated film, it contrasts with the more flamboyant and gothic styling of other Czech gems such as "Valerie" or the day glow anarchy of "Daisies". Instead "The Cremator" is more akin to German Expressionism or Bergman's darker, more nihilistic portrayals of what it means to be human.
Composer Zdeněk Liška's previous work on another Czech classic "Mal� Mořsk� V�la" (The Little Mermaid) was a stunning mix of electronics and baroque orchestral work, filled with harpsichord and chimes. For "The Cremator" he employs an almost fairy tale like sense of magic and wonder in the use of choir and playful strings, quite at odds with the dark undertow of the movie but deliberately underscoring the increasingly unsettling mismatch of the protagonist's deranged world view and his respectable appearance. Hints of darker goings on begin to emerge from more conventional passages as the music itself indicates that behind the publicly acceptable and polite persona "The Cremator" is both sociopathic and deeply insane; merry-go-rounds and oompah segue into off- key trumpet squalls as both the film and its accompanying soundtrack reveal the dark heart of our narrator. (Review by Grey Malkin (The Hare & The Moon))
Leave your request here if you're interested
Information about the film at IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063633/) and Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cremator)
Enjoy! And don't forget to thank, rep and like ;)
You may also enjoy the other albums from this composer in my personal music thread.
