Nosferatu

構成数 : 1枚
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Personnel: Daniel Fichelscher (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Alois Gromer (sitar); Ted de Jong (tamboura); Bob Eliscu (oboe); Florian Fricke (piano). Audio Remasterers: Frank Fiedler; Guido Hieronymus. Liner Note Authors: Werner Herzog; Dolf Mulder; Manfred Gillig-Degrave. Recording information: Bavaria Studio, Munich (08/1978). Florian Fricke's soundtracks always added a distinctive dimension to the films of Werner Herzog and that's especially true of his recordings for Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (starring Klaus Kinski as the most spectacularly grotesque Count Dracula ever). This CD brings together Bruder des Schattens, Sohne des Lichts and Nosferatu: Fantome de la Nuit, two 1978 Popol Vuh albums containing material for Herzog's film. The director drew initially on the first of these records but subsequently asked Fricke for more music conveying fear and dread. In response, Fricke raided his archive of unused work -- this was the origin of the second record. Featured prominently in the film, "Bruder des Schattens, Sohne des Lichts" moves from a spectral choral beginning to a lighter, almost pastoral conclusion with piano, guitar, and sitar, echoing the chiaroscuro dynamic of its title ("Brothers of Shadow, Sons of Light"). That brighter, expansive mood recurs on several tracks with a more pronounced Eastern groove: "Through Pain to Heaven," for example, with its mesmerizing interplay of guitars and droning, billowing sitar. Darker numbers like "Mantra 2" -- which combines choral voices and organic drones in a mournful, subtly menacing fashion -- resonate more explicitly with the film's gothic aesthetic. Among the dark tracks, the most striking pay homage to early electronic soundtrack experiments: for example, "Die Nacht der Himmel" with its spooky theremin sound and the supremely eerie "Der Ruf der Rohrflote." To call this a soundtrack CD is slightly misleading: not all the music features in the movie and it omits non-Popol Vuh material heard in the film (portions of Wagner's "Das Rheingold" and Gounod's "Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile," for instance). That said, it holds together as a coherent album in its own right and includes some exceptionally strong, memorable material. ~ Wilson Neate
エディション : Remaster