Maxwill
09-20-2014, 06:51 PM
Morgiana
The final film of the Czech New Wave, a psychedelic gothic masterpiece by the great
Luboš Fišer
01 Dust To Dust 0:57
02 Matching Mirrors / Morgiana's Prowl 2:16
03 Swan Steps 2:21
04 Klara & Viktorie 0:16
05 Prospective Suitor Marek 1:30
06 Red Ghost 0:07
07 Quinine 1:11
08 I Don't Want Any Flowers 0:48
09 Viktorie's Darkest Moment 1:51
10 Message From Marek 0:50
11 Klara's Thirst 1:17
12 Lost In The Tavern 0:28
13 Sapphires At The Green Flute 1:29
14 The Cards 2:11
15 Blood Red Roses 1:10
16 Crimson Elixier 1:07
17 Alzbeta Behind The Curtain 2:13
18 Kučera Steps 2:05
19 Dust Settles 0:36
20 Morgiana (Opening Titles) 2:52
Total Time: 27:35
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.
Regarded as the final ever film of the Czech New Wave, Juraj Herz’s Morgiana (alongside Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders) was made after the Prague Spring during Czech cinema’s most scrutinised censorship era, deep in the throws of communism. Spearheading a micro-cosmic sub-genre of horror fantasy or scary/fairytales alongside Karel Kachyňa’s Mal� Mořsk� V�la (The Little Mermaid), these directors built a handful of subversive, flamboyant and experimental new films based around classical communist approved surrealist literature; sidestepping creative compromise and uniting some of the leading lights of the FAMU founded film movement for the last time. Both musical scores courtesy of Luboš Fišer unite Valerie and Morgiana; sharing doppelg�nger production and compositional ideas presented by Finders Keepers Records for the first time ever outside of the original context of the film.
It is easy to hear why the music for both films could easily be confused as part of the same score, or as very close twin sisters, having been recorded just 18 months apart in 1970 and 1972. Revealing tiny shards of identical melodic phrasing, the Morgiana score visits darker hallucinogenic corners for this tale of two sisters seen through the perspective of giallo-esque “cat’s eye” camera work (filmed by Jaroslav Kučera) revealing poison induced hysteria fuelled by sibling rivalry and desperately twisted jealousy. Adopting his mysteriously macabre musical persona, the versatile Fišer interweaves chimes, harps and harpsichord with echoing flutes, lutes and piano, applying his signature orchestral tension and experimental percussion traits in the form of treated pianos, vibra-slaps, tape samples of striking matches and spring reverbs to this oblique heady selection.
Revered in similar esteem to that of Czech film legend Zdeněk Liška, Fišer’s unreleased filmography of forward-thinking Czech scores is slowly reaching a wider global audience through his first ever dedicated commercial soundtrack releases which should, in time, win him the same votes of confidence that we now award the likes of Komeda, Korzyński, Roubaix and Nicolai, amongst other European soundtrack luminaries.
Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaO1yDXbLW8)
Sample 1 (https://mega.nz/#!Wo5hwY5b!lQ3By-gUu01RTYSbU6MAA0i8Ux9dzgNgmShkUsvDV5k) / Sample 2 (https://mega.nz/#!S45hETZK!9L-ee9tCYdLqJG_yX2d_YF8HT1kGtDEYhont8A-IwNY) / Sample 3 (https://mega.nz/#!uohBwAxb!-wbxMcIZJuekZwLll6bkZud6udHnMyjV208u2c-osl4)
The soundtrack was also bundled with Zdeněk Liška's The Cremator, another film by Juraj Herz - you can find it in it's separate thread (Thread 179955).
Previously unreleased, the soundtrack to the Czech New Wave's greatest 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).
"Morgiana" was arguably the final film of the Czech new wave and also one of its finest. Communist occupation would eventually result in the country's film industry being under strict government control, effectively calling a halt to what was arguably one of the most unique, creative, colourful and surreal movements in cinema history. Essentially a gothic tale of two sisters (one good, one very bad) and featuring a stellar performance in both roles by Iva Janzurova, "Morgiana" is a psychedelic gothic masterpiece that rivals that other Czech classic "Valerie And Her Week of Wonders" in its sumptuous photography and costumes. The hair is big, the eyeliner thick and the out of time Victoriana of the costumes both evocative and creepy.
Prior to "Morgiana", Luboš Fišer had already scored "Valerie", quite simply one of the all-time great soundtracks with its use of strings, clockwork sound effects, harpsichord and choirs. Enchanting and fairytale like but also at times menacing and melancholy, the soundtrack has gone on to influence a wide range of artists from Espers to Broadcast to my own pop combo The Hare And The Moon. Fišer’s music for "Morgiana" immediately takes a darker tone, befitting the film, but the twisted waltzes and bells evoke much the same otherworldly and magical atmosphere as his soundtrack to "Valerie". Occasionally a tense and ominous trumpet fanfare echoes some of the Hammer soundtracks of the same period and in some respects "Morgiana" is in the mould of those glorious Technicolor horrors. But within both soundtrack and the film there is something deeper at work here, different to its British or Western European counterparts, something timeless and with a melancholy not present in your typical gothic flick. (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/tt0124012/) and Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgiana_%28film%29)
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.
The final film of the Czech New Wave, a psychedelic gothic masterpiece by the great
Luboš Fišer
01 Dust To Dust 0:57
02 Matching Mirrors / Morgiana's Prowl 2:16
03 Swan Steps 2:21
04 Klara & Viktorie 0:16
05 Prospective Suitor Marek 1:30
06 Red Ghost 0:07
07 Quinine 1:11
08 I Don't Want Any Flowers 0:48
09 Viktorie's Darkest Moment 1:51
10 Message From Marek 0:50
11 Klara's Thirst 1:17
12 Lost In The Tavern 0:28
13 Sapphires At The Green Flute 1:29
14 The Cards 2:11
15 Blood Red Roses 1:10
16 Crimson Elixier 1:07
17 Alzbeta Behind The Curtain 2:13
18 Kučera Steps 2:05
19 Dust Settles 0:36
20 Morgiana (Opening Titles) 2:52
Total Time: 27:35
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.
Regarded as the final ever film of the Czech New Wave, Juraj Herz’s Morgiana (alongside Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders) was made after the Prague Spring during Czech cinema’s most scrutinised censorship era, deep in the throws of communism. Spearheading a micro-cosmic sub-genre of horror fantasy or scary/fairytales alongside Karel Kachyňa’s Mal� Mořsk� V�la (The Little Mermaid), these directors built a handful of subversive, flamboyant and experimental new films based around classical communist approved surrealist literature; sidestepping creative compromise and uniting some of the leading lights of the FAMU founded film movement for the last time. Both musical scores courtesy of Luboš Fišer unite Valerie and Morgiana; sharing doppelg�nger production and compositional ideas presented by Finders Keepers Records for the first time ever outside of the original context of the film.
It is easy to hear why the music for both films could easily be confused as part of the same score, or as very close twin sisters, having been recorded just 18 months apart in 1970 and 1972. Revealing tiny shards of identical melodic phrasing, the Morgiana score visits darker hallucinogenic corners for this tale of two sisters seen through the perspective of giallo-esque “cat’s eye” camera work (filmed by Jaroslav Kučera) revealing poison induced hysteria fuelled by sibling rivalry and desperately twisted jealousy. Adopting his mysteriously macabre musical persona, the versatile Fišer interweaves chimes, harps and harpsichord with echoing flutes, lutes and piano, applying his signature orchestral tension and experimental percussion traits in the form of treated pianos, vibra-slaps, tape samples of striking matches and spring reverbs to this oblique heady selection.
Revered in similar esteem to that of Czech film legend Zdeněk Liška, Fišer’s unreleased filmography of forward-thinking Czech scores is slowly reaching a wider global audience through his first ever dedicated commercial soundtrack releases which should, in time, win him the same votes of confidence that we now award the likes of Komeda, Korzyński, Roubaix and Nicolai, amongst other European soundtrack luminaries.
Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaO1yDXbLW8)
Sample 1 (https://mega.nz/#!Wo5hwY5b!lQ3By-gUu01RTYSbU6MAA0i8Ux9dzgNgmShkUsvDV5k) / Sample 2 (https://mega.nz/#!S45hETZK!9L-ee9tCYdLqJG_yX2d_YF8HT1kGtDEYhont8A-IwNY) / Sample 3 (https://mega.nz/#!uohBwAxb!-wbxMcIZJuekZwLll6bkZud6udHnMyjV208u2c-osl4)
The soundtrack was also bundled with Zdeněk Liška's The Cremator, another film by Juraj Herz - you can find it in it's separate thread (Thread 179955).
Previously unreleased, the soundtrack to the Czech New Wave's greatest 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).
"Morgiana" was arguably the final film of the Czech new wave and also one of its finest. Communist occupation would eventually result in the country's film industry being under strict government control, effectively calling a halt to what was arguably one of the most unique, creative, colourful and surreal movements in cinema history. Essentially a gothic tale of two sisters (one good, one very bad) and featuring a stellar performance in both roles by Iva Janzurova, "Morgiana" is a psychedelic gothic masterpiece that rivals that other Czech classic "Valerie And Her Week of Wonders" in its sumptuous photography and costumes. The hair is big, the eyeliner thick and the out of time Victoriana of the costumes both evocative and creepy.
Prior to "Morgiana", Luboš Fišer had already scored "Valerie", quite simply one of the all-time great soundtracks with its use of strings, clockwork sound effects, harpsichord and choirs. Enchanting and fairytale like but also at times menacing and melancholy, the soundtrack has gone on to influence a wide range of artists from Espers to Broadcast to my own pop combo The Hare And The Moon. Fišer’s music for "Morgiana" immediately takes a darker tone, befitting the film, but the twisted waltzes and bells evoke much the same otherworldly and magical atmosphere as his soundtrack to "Valerie". Occasionally a tense and ominous trumpet fanfare echoes some of the Hammer soundtracks of the same period and in some respects "Morgiana" is in the mould of those glorious Technicolor horrors. But within both soundtrack and the film there is something deeper at work here, different to its British or Western European counterparts, something timeless and with a melancholy not present in your typical gothic flick. (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/tt0124012/) and Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgiana_%28film%29)
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.