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    ACANTHUS

    Le Frisson Des Vampires

    [engl] One of the most underrated and misunderstood directors to emerge from the rising smoke of the 1968 Parisian social explosion, Jean Rollin – a director with early links with the Paris underground, The Letterists, the Surrealists, improv theatre and the free press – is best known for his films in the fantastique genre, producing the first French vampire film (Le Viol Du Vampire, 1968). As part of our (slightly interrupted) 15th birthday celebratory retrospective reappraisals we present an updated package of the title that launched our new Rollinade series, documenting some of the finest musical moments of the director’s career as an avant-gardener, counter-culture vulture and Gallic vamp-tramp, the entire unreleased soundtrack from the ultimate French vampire hippy flick Le Frisson Des Vampires on blood red transparent vinyl (with a black vinyl pressing to follow in the new year). Also available in the series is Jeunes Filles Impudiques, a five-track EP of drum heavy Gallic hard-bop and risqué acidic folk, François Tusques’ previously presumed lost/unreleased studio sessions that went on to score both La Reine Des Vampires and La Vampire Nue, and more!
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    09.09.2010
    EAN
    EAN 5060099507212
     
  • 01. Ice-Cream
    02. The Clowns
    03. Teosofo
    04. Ibañez Orgasm
    05. Carlito’s Death
    06. The Wave
    07. Shoes Dance
    08. God Doesn’t Exist
    09. Los Mineros
    10. Bucéfalo
    11. Jaime and Bucéfalo 12. Bucéfalo Dies
    13. Bodisua
    14. José
    15. Aquilles
    16. The Midget
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    ADAN JODOROWSKY

    The Dance Of Reality

    [engl] After a twenty-three-year hiatus, The Dance of Reality marks the triumphant return of Alejandro Jodorowsky, the visionary Chilean filmmaker behind cult classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain. In the radiantly visceral autobiographical film, a young Jodorowsky is confronted by a collection of compelling characters that contributed to his burgeoning surreal consciousness. The legendary filmmaker was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on the edge of the Chilean desert, where the film was shot. Blending his personal history with metaphor, mythology, and poetry, The Dance of Reality reflects Jodorowsky’s philosophy that reality is not objective but rather a “dance” created by our own imaginations. Written, performed and recorded by Alejandro’s son, the acclaimed actor, director and musician Adan Jodorowsky, Dance of Reality’s original soundtrack expands from gossamer folk acoustic guitar themes and solo piano compositions to rich cinematic orchestral arrangements echoing the work of John Barry and Ennio Morricone combined with extrovert narrative traditional pieces executed in the vein of Nino Rota. This LP contains the sixteen original compositions that make up the score for Alejandro’s seventh feature film which witness a return to the ABKCO film company who produced his underground classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain both of which Finders Keepers will also release the soundtrack LPs in this series of special vinyl editions.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    15.06.2015
    EAN
    EAN 5060099505485
     
  • 01. Des Morts (Theme)
    02. Funérailles chez les Hmongs (Thailande)
    03. Clown
    04. Fàte des morts chez les Indiens Tzotziles (Mexique)
    05. Des Morts (Alternative Theme)
    06. Chant d'un Mariachi (Mexique)
    07. Cryogene
    08. Funérailles Bouddhistes (Thailande)
    09. Des Morts (Final Theme)
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    ALAIN PIERRE

    Des Morts (Of The Dead)

    [engl] Expanded reissue of mega rare 1979 unknown vanity pressing LP that blends ethnological field recordings, musique concrète principles and introspective synthesiser music from this cult European studio maverick and historic collaborator of COS, Philippe Druilet, Marc Moulin and John Surman. Alain Pierre’s Mondo movie soundtrack to the controversial Des Morts shares very few stylistic rivals, but fans of Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain soundtrack and some of the more eldritch early sampling experiments of Jean-Pierre Massiera will certainly draw fragmented comparisons herein. Other listeners might file this album at the weirder end of your Smithsonian Folkways shelf, just before the Video Nasty soundtracks. Presented in remastered form comprising extra vintage studio outtakes (in accordance with the films morbid narrative), Des Morts serves as a would-be sequel to Finders Keepers’ previous Ô Sidarta release witnessing Pierre balance his allegiance to the Belgian bandes dessinée scene and Thierry Zéno’s shock cinema oeuvre from the heart of his uber-legendary Brussels based experimental recording studio through the 1970s.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    20.04.2023
    EAN
    EAN 5060099507885
     
  • 01. Entierro Del Primer Juguete (Burial of the First Toy)
    02. Bajo Tierra (Under the Earth)
    03. La Catedral De Los Puercos (The Pigs Monastery)
    04. Los Mendigos Sangrados (The Holy Beggars)
    05. La Muerte Es Un Nacimiento (Death Is Birth) 06. Curios Mexicano (Mexican Curios)
    07. El Agua Viva (Living Water)
    08. Vals Fantasma
    09. El Alma Nace en la Sangre (The Soul Born in the Blood)
    10. Topo Triste
    11. Los Dioses De Azucar (The Sugar Gods)
    12. Las Flores Nacen En El Barro (Flowers Born in the Mud)
    13. El Infierno De Los Angeles Prostitutos (The Hell of the Prostituted Angels)
    14. Marcha De Los Ojos En El Triangulos (March of the Eyes in the Triangles)
    15. La Miel Del Dolor (The Pain of the Honey)
    16. 300 Conejos (300 Rabbits)
    17. Conocimiento A Traves De La Musica (Knowledge Through Music)
    18. La Primera Flor Despues Del Diluvio (The First Flower After the Flood)
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    ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY

    El Topo

    [engl] Presented here as part of a dedicated series of Jodorowsky’s ABKCO film scores (alongside the previously unreleased The Holy Mountain and The Dance Of Reality), Finders Keepers bring you the score to the ultimate midnight movie and spiritual pseudo western an album that marks the exact pinprick where Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legacy first bled into the wider public consciousness. To affirm it’s 70’s rock credentials El Topo was originally imported by record producer Alan Douglas (Jimi Hendrix/The Last Poets/Miles Davis) then bought by American Beatles manager Allen Klein under the recommendation of John Lennon and Yoko Ono who shared enthusiasm with late night creatives like Dennis Hopper, Samuel Fuller and Don Cherry (who would later score The Holy Mountain). The acidic folk soundtrack was originally composed by Jodorowsky himself with his long-term Mexican collaborator Nacho Méndez with whom he had previously worked on the avant theatre production and LP H30. The following year Jodorowsky and Méndez’ short cues from the film’s production tapes were given to Ravi Shankar understudy (and George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass orchestrator) John Barnham to add extra score and post-production features making the lo-fi composed-to-scene themes into a viable commercial LP which would share release schedules with The Elephant’s Memory, Badfinger and Mary Hopkins - standing out like a sore thumb in a sea of well manicured talons. Taken from the original master tapes of engineer Brian Humphries (Black Sabbath/ Pink Floyd) and presented with new artwork based on the rare European and South American poster artwork for the film’s original release with exclusive sleevenotes form Andy Votel and actress/director (and Jodorowsky friend/collaborator) Asia Argento this release is an essential companion piece to Finders Keepers exclusive Jodorowsky series and an enthralling and pop culturally significant release in its own right.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    15.06.2015
    EAN
    EAN 5060099505478
     
  • 01. Trance Mutation
    02. Pissed and Passed Out
    03. Violence of the Lambs
    04. Drink It
    05. Christs 4 Sale
    06. Cast Out and Pissed
    07. Eye of the Beholder
    08. Communion
    09. Rainbow Room
    10. Alchemical Room
    11. Tarot Will Teach You/Burn Your Money
    12. Mattresses, Masks and Pearls
    13. Isla (The Sapphic Sleep)
    14. Psychedelic Weapons
    15. Rich Man in a Fishbowl
    16. Miniature Plastic Bomb Shop
    17. Fuck Machine
    18. Baby Snakes
    19. A Walk in the Park
    20. Mice and Massacre
    21. City of Freedom
    22. Starfish
    23. The Climb/Reality (Zoom Back Camera)
    24. Pantheon Bar (Bees Make Honey…)
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    ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY

    The holy mountain

    [engl] Unanimously considered amongst fans of all strains of alternative pop culture the flamboyant cinematic masterpiece known as Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain can proudly claim, amongst all its other accolades, one of fantastique cinema’s greatest red herrings of all time. In the interest of anti spoilerism we are not referring to the film’s reconstituted plot here (recycled from René Daumal’s 1952 fictitious mountaineering journal) but rather the film’s devious inverted end title sequence, a murky pond which harbours the true crimson fish that has quite frankly wasted record collectors time for over four bloody decades. The immortal, fatal, deviously distracting and plain EVIL strap line that reads “Forthcoming soundtrack available of Abkco Records and Tapes” has served a repeat menu of wild goose chase soup followed by red herring salad served in half a camouflaged curveball with a glass of muddied water in your own personal smoked screen booth for most of our adult lives. The gift that keeps on not giving. For those of us addicted to black plastic circles, if there was ever to be a sequel to The Holy Mountain then a two hour title card reading “we decided not to release the soundtrack to the original film” would have saved a lot of time, fingertip skin and want list paper and ink… In fact, in keeping with Jodorowsky’s grand vision for the film, this rug puller was (unbeknown to him) the final illusion. If it wasn’t for Jodorowsky and Allan Klein’s thirty-something-year “temporary stand-off” (leading to release schedule cancellation) we might have already got over how amazing this soundtrack is. In fact, with all its quite unrequired Beatle connection hyperbole it might be in your old dad’s all-time favourite lists as the only token alternative/soundtrack/jazz record he ever bought, and you might have learned to hate it. But that never happened, and as the forbidden fruit idiom commands THIS IS NOW YOUR FAVOURITE LP OF ALL TIME AND YOU CANT LIVE WITHOUT IT. So we need to write a press release. One which will sound like we are talking about seven different albums in one and for those that have seen the film, that will make perfect astrological sense. Where do we start? The unreleased soundtrack to the most fantastic transcendental spiritual cinematic explosion of our time? The lost Don Cherry album? The missing Jazz Composers Orchestra album featuring Charlie Haden, Carla Bley and Frank Lowe? The Elephant’s Memory soundtrack follow-up to Midnight Cowboy? The lost soundtrack album secretly funded and A&R’d by John Lennon and Yoko Ono? The music to the film that George Harrison was sacked from because he didn’t want us to see his butt hole? The orch rock LP made by the arranger of the collectable Mandrake Memorial prog pop LP? Walter Sears’ undiscovered studio experiments? The record that The Beatles’ managers didn’t want you to hear? The true axis between New York psych rock, free jazz and Swedish prog rock? All are relevant, all are true and all clearly outlined in liner notes exclusive to Finders Keepers’ bespoke vinyl pressing of this grail-trail double-slab of psychedelic vinyl film history. Featuring the original cues, composed-to-scene, and mastered from the original studio master tapes via Record Plant, A&R, Sear Sound and Electric Ladyland and housed in exclusive packaging based on one of the rarest European posters for the film’s original release. This first edition also includes exclusive interviews and lost information from Neneh Cherry, Ronald Frangipane and the Swedish members of the original Don Cherry Holy Mountain line-up Bengt Berger and Christer Bothen alongside commendable quotes from Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Kieran Hebden (Four Tet). Alongside this release Finders Keepers, in collaboration with ABKCO will also present special vinyl editions of Jodorowsky’s other two Allen Klein produced films, El Topo and The Dance Of Reality, housed with the same unique design features and liner notes driven by the label’s long-term commitment to a project that has taken over a decade to release. The wait has been too long. Zoom back camera! Break the illusion and enjoy your salad.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    03.10.2015
     
  • 01. The Devil
    02. Freedom For A Promise
    03. War-Torn Wasteland
    04. Wretched Woodland
    05. Wedding Dance Macabre
    06. A Mute Reunion
    07. The Devil Fits - God In His Youth
    08. Through The Door - Theador
    09. Your Father Is Dead Young Lord (Be Cursed)
    10. Broken Boudoir
    11. Theador And The Rifles
    12. The Bordel
    13. Mother
    14. Daughter Of The Sin
    15. Zakonnica
    16. Rope Him To The Horse
    17. Around You Is A Void Circle Save For The Stinking Corpses
    18. Understand Nothing
    19. No Blackberries In Winter
    20. Cancel The Evil Gently
    21. Mother Snake
    22. The Fiery Sword
    23. The Duel
    24. Not The Horse
    25. The Quill - What’s Not Written Does Not Exist
    26. The World Is Beautiful (Climb The Tree)
    27. Theador Go Back To God
    28. The Black Dog
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    ANDRZEJ KORZYNSKI

    Diabel

    [engl] Wipe your blade clean. The bloodline of Eastern European kosmische and groundbreaking, grinding cinematic psych rock finally emerges from fifty years of forbidden forestland to fill your thirsty grails. Poland’s prime progressive provocateurs Zulawski and Korzynski finally expose the jagged roots of Possession and The Silver Globe and give the devil his due via this historical vinyl release. If an opening strapline that reads “Forget everything that you thought you knew about the history of psychedelic rock and horror movies” appeals to you, then further potentially hyperbolic phrases like “Lost Grail” and “Banned Forever” will surely clinch the deal, leaving the hugely significant wider context of this dream come true release surplus to requirement. But as we hope you have come to expect from Finders Keepers releases “The devil is in the detail” and the fact that any mention of the perpetually elusive original master tapes to a 1972 project entitled Diabe? and the phrase “Holy Grail” have become synonymously associated only adds the twisted irony that surrounds this genuine masterpiece of both aforementioned fields. For those fastidious enough to pursue the hunt, these unearthed recordings represent the crowning glory of the lifelong unison of Maestro Andrzej Zulawski and filmmaker Andrzej Korzynski, two genuine mavericks of Polish experimental cinema who challenged artistic and societal norms, on both sides of a politically restricted regime and on an international artistic stage, without compromise. Friends since childhood, Korzy?ski and ?u?awski may have become divided by limelight and geography (?u?awski the intrepid emigre), but they remained united in their kaleidoscopic creative vision, resulting in a fractured stream of troublesome and mind-bending golden era collaborations such as Possession, The Silver Globe, and Third Part Of The Night. This long-awaited liberation of the psychedelic masterpiece known as Diabe? finally completes the duo’s full vista with what many consider the most vital piece of the prism.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    20.01.2023
     
  • 01. Man Of Marble (Baby Bump)
    02. The Port
    03. Saved From Oblivion
    04. Figures Of Marble
    05. A Witness
    06. In The Shipyard
    07. The Katowice Ironworks
    08. The Striptease (Kung Fu)
    09. Jane Wisniewski (Man Of Iron)
    10. Poem By Milosz (Man Of Iron)
    11. Truncheon Man (Man Of Iron)
    12. You Are My Hope (Man Of Iron)
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    ANDRZEJ KORZYNSKI

    Man Of Marble

    [engl] Opening further doors in the sprawling labyrinth of unreleased music by Polish composer Andrzej Korzynski, Finders Keepers Records present the soundtrack to the 1977 Polish film Man Of Marble by ‘national filmmaker’ and long-term collaborator Andrzej Wajda. Presented for the first time ever on vinyl (featuring exclusive unreleased bonus tracks) this synthesiser fuelled soundtrack marks a distinct stylistic manoeuvre towards a unique brand of Polish cosmic disco, celebrating the cinematic debut of Korzynski’s Arp-Life project - widely respected as Poland’s first “synthesiser orchestra.” Begging direct comparison to Russia’s Zodiac and sharing an uncanny resemblance to other 1970s European post rock cinematic disco bands like France’s Arpadys (formerly Jean-Claude Vannier’s Insolitudes) or the later projects of Italy’s Goblin (such as Discocross) this soundtrack witnesses Korzynski and Arp-Life at their halcyon; making fantastical and experimental musical approximations of the burgeoning synth funk disco boom which had erupted on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Man Of Marble unearths Korzynski’s first steps into electronic dance music, and with the addition of bonus tracks from the 1981 sequel Man Of Iron, provides the perfect companion piece to his recently liberated score to Possession (directed by Andrzej Zuławski) which blends the same ingredients through another darker corridor of this versatile composer’s creative mind. Accompanying our release of the first anthology of rare Korzynski archive material Secret Enigma (FKR055), the aforementioned Possession (FKR062) and Third Part Of The Night (FKR063) soundtracks, Man Of Marble provides further glimpses into a deeper archive of electronic pop. This release captures prime- era Korzynski as a forward- thinking keyboard artist and experimentalist who managed to move with global musical and technological trends under the stifling communist regime while still displaying compositional versatility polarised by Poland’s most famous and infamous national directors.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    07.04.2014
    EAN
    EAN 5060099505171
     
  • 01. The Night The Screaming Stops (Opening Titles)
    02. Opetanie 1
    03. Meeting With A Pink Tie
    04. Opetanie 2
    05. Anna Rewards Mark
    06. Possesion - Orchestral Theme 1
    07. Kreuzberg 1
    08. Opetanie 3
    09. Mark Looks In The Fridge
    10. Heinrick's Demise
    11. Opetanie 4
    12. Possession - Orchestral Theme 2
    13. Blue Ford B-AZ6
    14. Helen Has Green Eyes
    15. Opetanie 5
    16. Bloody Embrace
    17. Kreuzberg 2
    18. Detective's Deserts
    19. Kreuzberg 3
    20. Kreuzberg 4
    21. The Night The Screaming Tops (Tempo)
    22. Mark Formulates A Plan
    23. Mark Sees Everything
    24. Closely Observered Anna
    25. Opetanie 6
    26. What Is It?
    27. The Man With The Pink Socks
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    ANDRZEJ KORZYNSKI

    Possession

    [engl] As our maiden voyage into an expansive vat of unreleased music by Polish com- poser Andrzej Korzynski, Finders Keepers Records presents his previously unre- leased electro/orchestral/experimental score for Andrzej Zulawski's surrealist 80s horror classic, Possession. These 25 cues were written and recorded exclusively for the 1981 award-winning film starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neil, but due to the progressive, stark and modernist nature of the finished film less than half of them made it on to the actual director’s cut - leaving many of the tracks on this package totally unheard outside of Korzynski’s studio. The intended Possession score in its entirety marks an important axis in Korzynski’s career where his various musical disciplines overlap. In one respect it marks his first forays into to synth driven electronics and disco drum machines, while other tracks epitomise the well honed techniques used in previous Zulawski scores, such as Third Part Of The Night and The Devil, which rely on his inimitable orchestral arrangements and combination of clavinet, Rhodes, piano and electric guitar. This is the first time any of this music has been released outside of the films origi- nal context and is packaged on CD, 12" vinyl and conceptual green compact cas- settes housed in miniature clamshell cases reminiscent of the films original VHS release that briefly adorned UK video shops in the early 1980s (before being banned by over excited censors as one of the unproscecuted ‘video nasties' in the infamous 1983 tape cull). The important restoration of Korzynski's music aims to shed new light on the seldom manufactured productions of the composer whose vast cinematic catalogue warrants overdue global status alongside other golden era Eastern European composers such as Kryzstof Komeda, Jan Hammer and Zdenek Liska - not to mention the best of the French and Italian soundtrackers, such as Roubaix, Vannier and Nicolai. Duplicated and carefully remastered directly from Korzynski's original master tapes this album boasts the uninhibited studio experiments and retains the pre-cut ambi- ence as an exclusive archival forerunner to our expanded selection of Korzynski releases later in 2012.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    26.07.2012
    EAN
    EAN 5060099503832
     
  • 01. The Night The Screaming Stops (Opening Titles)
    02. Opetanie 1
    03. Meeting With A Pink Tie
    04. Opetanie 2
    05. Anna Rewards Mark
    06. Possesion - Orchestral Theme 1
    07. Kreuzberg 1
    08. Opetanie 3
    09. Mark Looks In The Fridge
    10. Heinrick's Demise
    11. Opetanie 4
    12. Possession - Orchestral Theme 2
    13. Blue Ford B-AZ6
    14. Helen Has Green Eyes
    15. Opetanie 5
    16. Bloody Embrace
    17. Kreuzberg 2
    18. Detective's Deserts
    19. Kreuzberg 3
    20. Kreuzberg 4
    21. The Night The Screaming Tops (Tempo)
    22. Mark Formulates A Plan
    23. Mark Sees Everything
    24. Closely Observered Anna
    25. Opetanie 6
    26. What Is It?
    27. The Man With The Pink Socks
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    ANDRZEJ KORZYNSKI

    Possession

    [engl] As our maiden voyage into an expansive vat of unreleased music by Polish com- poser Andrzej Korzynski, Finders Keepers Records presents his previously unre- leased electro/orchestral/experimental score for Andrzej Zulawski's surrealist 80s horror classic, Possession. These 25 cues were written and recorded exclusively for the 1981 award-winning film starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neil, but due to the progressive, stark and modernist nature of the finished film less than half of them made it on to the actual director’s cut - leaving many of the tracks on this package totally unheard outside of Korzynski’s studio. The intended Possession score in its entirety marks an important axis in Korzynski’s career where his various musical disciplines overlap. In one respect it marks his first forays into to synth driven electronics and disco drum machines, while other tracks epitomise the well honed techniques used in previous Zulawski scores, such as Third Part Of The Night and The Devil, which rely on his inimitable orchestral arrangements and combination of clavinet, Rhodes, piano and electric guitar. This is the first time any of this music has been released outside of the films origi- nal context and is packaged on CD, 12" vinyl and conceptual green compact cas- settes housed in miniature clamshell cases reminiscent of the films original VHS release that briefly adorned UK video shops in the early 1980s (before being banned by over excited censors as one of the unproscecuted ‘video nasties' in the infamous 1983 tape cull). The important restoration of Korzynski's music aims to shed new light on the seldom manufactured productions of the composer whose vast cinematic catalogue warrants overdue global status alongside other golden era Eastern European composers such as Kryzstof Komeda, Jan Hammer and Zdenek Liska - not to mention the best of the French and Italian soundtrackers, such as Roubaix, Vannier and Nicolai. Duplicated and carefully remastered directly from Korzynski's original master tapes this album boasts the uninhibited studio experiments and retains the pre-cut ambi- ence as an exclusive archival forerunner to our expanded selection of Korzynski releases later in 2012.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    26.07.2012
    EAN
    EAN 5060099503832
     
  • 01. Trying To Catch A Fly
    02. La Grabuge (Pop Theme)
    03. Agent No.1
    04. Opetanie Five
    05. Saved From Oblivion
    06. Tajemnica Enigmy
    07. W Instyucie
    08. W Pustyni I W Puszczy
    09. The Dziekanka Students' Hostel (II)
    10. Landscape
    11. Losy OST (Mid-Beat Theme)
    12. Third Part Of The Night Czolownica
    13. Diabel
    14. La Grabuge (Orch Pop Theme)
    15. Rosa Rosa (With Arp Life)
    16. Bossa Nova (feat. Ewa Wanat)
    17. The Dziekanka Students' Hostel (I)
    18. Lapanka
    19. La Grabuge (Orchestral Theme)
    20. Losy OST (Mid-Guitar Theme)
    21. Trying To Catch A Fly (Reprise)
    22. Wszystko Na Sprzedaz Taniec
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    ANDRZEJ KORZYNSKI

    Secret Enigma

    [engl] Back due to unprecedented demand and available for the first time since the original 2012 pressing, Finders Keepers Records is proud to once again present these twenty-two rare and unreleased vintage tracks from the secret vaults of one of the most enigmatic composers in 60s/70s/80s European cinema, Andrzej Korzynski. Originally recorded in the best studios in Poland, Italy and France for experimental film, political allegories, lost television shows, sound libraries and radio – these tracks have been hidden behind the Iron Curtain on lost master tapes and film reels until now! Secret Enigma represents the first ever dedicated anthology of this great composer’s work. Originally released exactly thirty years ago In artistic cinema Andrzej Korzynski’s unique experiments with jazz, pop, rock, orchestral and electronic music make his name synonymous with the most praised (Andrzej Wajda) and the most provocative (Andrzej Zu?awski) Polish filmmakers (counting many more in between). As an early patron of the Polish New Wave and a key exponent of the development of conceptual Polish pop music his expansive portfolio has remained commercially unreleased and untravelled (like many of the original socialist era Polish made films) and has yet to find its deserved place next to the work of Ennio Morricone, François de Roubaix and John Barry. Now enhanced by a renewed interest in vintage art house film and a subculture of open minded music collectors many Easter European artists, such as Krzysztof Komeda (Poland), Zdenek Liška (Czechoslovakia) and now Andrzej Korzynski, have finally begun to earn their place alongside their Central European peers. For lovers of film music and experimental pop, this debut anthology and appraisal of Korzynski’s work is long overdue, and stylistically, probably never more relevant.
    Format
    DoLP
    Release-Datum
    20.01.2023
    EAN
    EAN 5060099507960
     
  • 01. Third Part Of The Night
    02. Tango
    03. W Instytucie
    04. Dworek
    05. Na Strychu
    06. Lapanka
    07. Szpital
    08. Szpital Part 2
    09. Third Part Of The Night Reprise
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    ANDRZEJ KORZYNSKI

    Third Part Of The Night

    [engl] As one of the most triumphant and beguiling directorial debut features to emerge from the fruitful Polish New Wave, Andrzej ?u?awski's 1971 film Third Part Of The Night not only earned the 30 year old filmmaker a place next to other radical Polish directors such as Polanski, Skolimowski and Has, but also galvanised a creative bond with long running collaborator and composer Andrzej Korzy?ski, providing fans of foreign abstract/suspense cinema with a potent creative fusion to match those of Polanki/Komeda, Fellini/Rota and Argento/Goblin, amongst others. Quite simply one of the heaviest psych rock film soundtracks of all time Andrzej Korzy?ski's short and unreleased score matched the blueprint that adorned the drawing boards of conceptual French jazz orch rock composers like Jean-Claude Vannier, Francois De Roubaix and Alain Gourageur, creating a soundtrack that unknowingly begs comparison to Masahiko Satô’s Belladonna Of Sadness and Billy Green’s Stone. As one of the first progressive pop writers to come out of the vibrant (but carefully scrutinised) Polish beat scene with his bands Ricecar and later Arplife (and composing for national heroes such as Czeslaw Niemen, Niebiesko-Czarni and Test) Korzy?ski’s growing passion for conceptual rock and jazz music soon lead to instrumental composition and soundtrack scores. His cinematic debuts scoring two consecutive transitional new wave films for Andrzej Wajda (in collaboration with the radical Polski pop groups Trubadurzy and Grupa ABC) also provided Korzy?ski with another significant cinematic muse in that of the stunning actress Malgorzata Braunek with whom they would both eventually achieve their finest performances under the direction of the ravenous first timer ?u?awski. Third Part Of The Night (1971) perhaps epitomises that triangular on-screen unison in its vibrant youth and feeds it through a hallucinogenic mangle finding astonishing beauty (within a repulsive synopsis) against a bleak and shattered backdrop and accompanied by progressive, psychedelic orchestral rock music - elements which would intensify for all three creatives with the next film, Diabel, which was banned by the Polish government the following year until 1988. Third Part Of The Night also marks the public unison of ?u?awski and Braunek whose later private romantic relationship is said to form the basis for another defining ?u?awski/Korzy?ski defining endeavour with the 1981 film Possession exactly a decade later, encapsulating a period that bequeaths a previously unopened vault of some of the composers finest and most inspired sonic adventures.
    Format
    10''
    Release-Datum
    20.01.2023
     
  • 01. Babla Orchestra Title Music
    02. Aye Mere Dil Kahin Aur Chal
    03. Soniye Tera Chahe Jo Bhi Hona
    04. Man Dole Mera Tan Dole
    05. Kabhi Hota Nahin
    06. Ghar Aya Mera Pardesi
    07. Hamko Tumpe Pyar Aaya
    08. Indian Aartis
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    BABLA

    Babla's Disco Sensation

    [engl] Throughout the late '70s and early '80s Indian artist Babla and his Orchestra created a musical revolution throughout India. Covering famous Bollywood movie title tracks of the time and giving them the 'new disco touch' with uptempo heavy sitar funk and moog bleeps, Babla created the 'Disco Dandia' movement, which saw him tour the world and become a household name in India. Originally released in 1980.
    Format
    CD
    Release-Datum
    26.02.2018
    EAN
    EAN 6038152913613
     
  • 01. Stone Is A Trip
    02. Hips Rap
    03. Death Trip
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    BILLY GREEN

    Stone

    [engl] Limited soundtrack 45 of music and dialog from the 1974 Ozploitation biker-psych cult classic. Including exclusive unreleased tracks not available on forthcoming LP and CD. Meet Stone. The trailer says it all. A deep Australian drawl narrates the scene over a psychedelic swamp-funk rhythm section doused in electronic percussion and treated keyboards. "Stone Is A Trip... The grave diggers are on the move - a new breed of motorbike gang" The screen fills with images of slo-mo bike accidents, hallucigenic trips and a death defying cliff stunt which could easily mistaken for a doppelganger scene in Psychomania. "Vietnam veterans with their own style of life, their own rules, their own religion." The scene swathes to a satanic ritualistic burial at the hands of a denim-clad crew of outlaw bikers with strangely familiar faces. To many global record collectors, DJ's, music producers and general retrophiles living outside of Australia "Stone" was primarily known for its electronic sound effects, psychedelic guitars, cosmic sound scapes and funky basslines... In 80's and 90's, before the global DVD boom, Stone to many people was first and foremost a Soundtrack... The kind of soundtrack that makes you wish you could see the film but it’ll probably never happen. Limited edition 45 to accompany the full soundtrack release available now!
    Format
    7''
    Release-Datum
    27.10.2010
    EAN
    EAN 5060099502293
     
  • 01. Eco Blue / Toadstrip
    02. Race
    03. Head Off
    04. Pigs
    05. Cosmic Funeral
    06. Amanda
    07. Septic
    08. Smoke
    09. Stone
    10. Undertaker
    11. Gravediggers
    12. Swim
    13. Klaude Kool & The Kats
    14. Toad
    15. The Death Of Dr. Death
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    BILLY GREEN

    Stone

    [engl] Meet Stone. The trailer says it all. A deep Australian drawl narrates the scene over a psychedelic swamp-funk rhythm section doused in electronic percussion and treated keyboards. “Stone Is A Trip… The grave diggers are on the move – a new breed of motorbike gang.” The screen fills with images of slo-mo bike accidents, hallucinogenic trips and a death defying cliff stunt which could easily mistaken for a doppelgänger scene in Psychomania. “Vietnam veterans with their own style of life, their own rules, their own religion.” The scene swathes to a satanic ritualistic burial at the hands of a denim-clad crew of outlaw bikers with strangely familiar faces. To many global record collectors, DJs, music producers and general retrophiles living outside of Australia “Stone” was primarily known for its electronic sound effects, psychedelic guitars, cosmic sound scapes and funky basslines… In the 80s and 90s, before the global DVD boom, Stone to many people was first and foremost a Soundtrack… The kind of soundtrack that makes you wish you could see the film but it’ll probably never happen. The LP artwork alone was beyond enigmatic with its contradicting embroider logo (designed by sandy) alongside its striking futuristic airbrushed chrome insignia (designed by comic artist Peter Ledger and realised by airbrush whizz Errol Black). The huge parade of brand new Kawasaki bikes inside the gatefold looked like something from the future compared to the classic full-dresser Harleys from the American Hells Angels movies. And when the needle drops into the groove and the freakish blend of didgeridoo and Moog (played by Johnny ‘Didge’ Matthews and synth expert Andy Cohan) blended with unidentified clicks belches and pops fly out the speakers it is literally impossible to put a date, never mind a story line, to this acid fuelled soundscape. The use of confusing and contradicting musical influences alongside bizarre noises is actually the secret sauce in this concoction and when the swampy psychedelic funk-rock rhythm section kicks-in you are left with a 45 minute programme of skewed. Forward-thinking avant-pop that would stylistically fill a very lonely section in the record shop racks. There are not many records quite like Stone.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    05.03.2011
    EAN
    EAN 5060099506055
     
  • 01. Bohusländsk Fanfar
    02. Avtagande Verklighet
    03. Minnesstund
    04. Mellanspel
    05. Visionen Vecklar Ut Sitt Landskap
    06. Vaggvisa För Flyktbenägna
    07. Borta Fast Hemma
    08. Melankolins Långa Arm
    09. Hällekindsvalsen
    10. Stjärnklar Natt
    11. ...eller kanske bara ett luftslott
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    BJÖRN OLSSON

    Instrumentalmusik – att sjunka in i ... eller kanske försvinna till

    [engl] First solo project from wizard Björn Olsson, composer and produ- cer (most noted for his close collaboration with Swedish superstar Håkan Hellström) and former guitarist / co-founder of Union Carbide Productions and The Soundtrack of Our Lives, flies like a watchful butterfly through time and space to land somewhere between krautrock, psychedelia and spaghetti westerns. Recorded in the spring of 1997 in a house by the sea on the Swedish west coast – or is it in Oz, Neverland or on some distant planet? – he weaves electric and organic threads from Ennio Morricone, Popol Vuh, Brian Eno and Bo Hansson into a ghostly, atmospheric, focused and dreamy ambient tapestry to submerge in ... or disappear through. A lullaby eternal like a granite rock, yet fleeting as a ripple over a glittering ocean. Björn Olsson enchants you without you noticing.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    13.03.2020
    EAN
    EAN 7331915024700
     
  • 01. Sabba
    02. Magico Incontro
    03. Propiziazione
    04. Evocazione
    05. Magico Incontro
    06. Bambole
    07. Insidia
    08. Oppressione
    09. Insidia
    10. Espiazione
    11. Medium
    12. Sabba
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    BRUNO NICOLAI

    All The Colours Of The Dark

    [engl] As part of a devoted series of releases focusing on Bruno Nicolai’s soundtrack music to the films of Edwige Fenech, Finders Keepers proudly unveil what is perhaps the crowning moment for both actress and composer with the film that inaugurated them (alongside director Sergio Martino) into the critical Giallo royal family in the early 1970s. Presented here with previously unpressed tracks as an alternative to the extremely rare 1973 Gemelli library edition, this Finders Keepers special release includes the recently uncovered 1972 hard-hitting left- field psychedelic pop themes that unified yet another unholy trinity comprising of sitar wielding Alessandro Alessandroni (in true Pawnshop Braens Machine mode) and Italian cinematic songbird Edda Dell’Orso to create (under Nicolai’s gaze) what is regarded by many unified euro horror video collectors and vinyl detectives as the cream of this well furrowed crop. Recorded in January 1972 at Morricone’s Ortophonic studio in Rome (home of Goblin’s Roller and Alessandroni’s Sangue di sbirro amongst many others) Bruno Nicolai balances psychotic free jazz, aggressive bass driven beats, schizoid Eastern motifs and childlike lullabies - the latter exacerbating director Martino’s proud Rosemary’s Baby influences in this Giallo tale of a rehabilitated relationship plagued by recurring nightmares and vague memories of a religious cult that teeter on the edge of Fenech’s consciousness. To claim this score as Nicolais’ all time best is perhaps a little ambitious for a versatile composer of such acclaim and widespread appeal, but for fans of that unique window of unhinged musical opportunity which came with the Giallo boom of the early 1970’s you’ll be hard pushed to find a record that covers all bases from an alternative universe where Fabio Frizzi, Goblin and Walter Rizzati were (haunted) household names. ALTERNATE SLEEVE AND DOUBLE SIDED 4-PANEL INSERT FEATURING EXTENSIVE LINER NOTES ONE ONE SIDE AND A RARE REPRODUCTION POSTER ON THE OTHER.
    Format
    DoLP
    Release-Datum
    01.09.2014
    EAN
    EAN 5060099505300
     
  • 01. Dawn At Long Street
    02. Busy & Calm
    03. Calm Places
    04. Strip Bar
    05. Little Italy
    06. Lonely Night
    07. Neon Pink & Blue
    08. Nino Rotunda
    09. Night Life
    10. Sirtaki Nights
    11. Angel In A Silver Wig
    12. Sweetie Night
    13. Goodbye Long Street
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    BRUNO SPOERRI

    Der Würger vom Tower

    [engl] Cult jazz soundtrack to supernatural Soho strangler epic by Swiss electronic pioneer held captive since 1966. There’s a devious religious sect underneath the Tower Of London which consists of some of the most greedy and powerful men and women in the world! The plot of this obscure Soho-based German thriller perhaps feels more believable during today’s political climate than it did when it was released back in 1966, taking die hard fans of Edgar Wallace paperback adaptations on a slightly more macabre and mystical journey than they had come to expect. What is perhaps less believable is the almost “criminal” fact that this films unheard spooked-out jazz score by one of the most innovative European players and composers has spent almost fifty-five years locked away, shrouded by mystery, not unlike the stolen Parvati Emerald that lies at the centre of the storyline of Der Wu?rger vom Tower. For those who thought soundtracks and conceptual cinematic records like Mad Monster Party and The Vampires Of Dartmoore were unrivalled in there phantasmagorical micro-genres, well the time has come for the original “jazz électronicien” Bruno Spoerri and the Finders Keepers archivists to unleash thick plodding bass lines, mind-bending percussion effects, wayward electric organs and breakneck European jazz to the loneliest part of your record library. Encapsulated in the unbroken chains of baritonal chants by mystical mad monks during cloaked underground ceremonies while the life-blood of some of the most important and coveted players of the Swiss, French and German jazz scenes perform outlandish musical exchanges under Dr. Spoerri’s watchful eye Der Wu?rger vom Tower delivers on a rare conceptual brief marking a truly unique moment in their combined careers. Having finally been liberated from Bruno Spoerri’s meticulous master tape vault this music takes us to the furthest reaches spanning right back to his first-ever feature-length soundtrack commission in order to find its place alongside other recently resuscitated oblique jazz scores by the likes of Basil Kirchin, Krzysztof Komeda (Cul-De-Sac), Angelo Michajlov (Saxana/In The Night Kitchen), Roger Webb and Jonny Scott. For an established jazz composer like Spoerri, who would quickly gravitate towards the rise of electronic music to become one of its biggest champions and pioneers, it is easy to identify within this score the early murmurs of minimal electronic sound design and bizarre jarring keyboard motifs which wouldn’t sound out of place in recordings by Sun Ra if you can imagine an unlikely recording session with the John Barry Seven. Heinz Pfenninger’s thick plodding bass notes (complete with double tracking and spring reverbs) embody the classic Bert Kaempfert and Tony Fisher wet bass sound (that will instantly appeal to fans of Dave Richmond and Serge Gainsbourg), successfully pinning down the sodden plot against the damp underground canals of Sixties London in conjunction with legendary Swiss jazz drummer Rolf Bänninger as the rhythm sections unwittingly channels McCallum and Axelrod in the dark shadows. Translated as The Strangler In The Tower this lesser-known thriller possibly stretched the imaginations of cinematic crime buffs beyond the genre’s parameters before disappearing into obscurity. Opening up with Sixties shots of Big Ben and Oxford Circus before a cat and mouse chase through Soho (and a quick stop at Paul Raymond’s Revuebar strip club) this film, under the direction of established TV programme maker Hans Mehringer, sees a cast of bizarre red cloaked occultists called The Brothers Of Compensatory Righteousness gather in the deepest chambers of England’s capital to worship their “holy root” and retrieve the scared jewel that binds them. Following a varied cast, including renowned burlesque dancers and confusing twin brothers, this ambitious seventy minute whodunnit (replete with the obligatory tangental plot) might pay the right kind of niche aficionado in rich dividends. It is the soundtrack, however, that is the real sacred jewel in Bruno Spoerri’s crown as the leader and pioneer of Switzerland’s electronic underground (not to mention sample source amongst rap royalty) and a mysterious monarchial figure in European jazz and music technology. A cult soundtrack in every sense of the word. Bound in secrecy. Bound in mystery. Now bound in faux leather and tough cotton. Yes, it’s another Finders Keepers special edition, annointing another holy grail discovery to its highest macabre and monarchical status… with an interactive twist. The hooded cult of crooked politicians, royal ne’er-do-wells and general corruptors of power and privilege provide the underlying narrative of this 1966 witchy crime Euro sleaze which demanded a unique soundtrack by a great experimental mind. Up steps Swiss medical scholar an electronic jazz pioneer Bruno Spoerri for his big screen debut and the rest is history, or better still, phantom funk folklore! A would-be doppelgänger to the likes of Dracula’s Music Cabinet and Mad Monster Party including an added burst of plundering Sun Ra synth and am-dram Don Cherry Druidic drones, this obscure soundtrack album is finally excavated from the Spoerri vault and packaged in fine robes like the hooded cult at the centre of the plot. Disguised In red mottled pleather with bespoke eye holes this limited edition include a custom printed insert with moving eye feature to reveal with actress or composer before you delve into a written interview (exclusive to this format) and rare images and trivia from the original film. Clearly one of the labels finest special editions thus far, this edition represents a sacred jewel in Bruno’s discography, not unlike the stolen emeralds which green light the murderous motives of the strangler in the tower.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    20.01.2022
     
  • 01. Dawn At Long Street
    02. Busy & Calm
    03. Calm Places
    04. Strip Bar
    05. Little Italy
    06. Lonely Night
    07. Neon Pink & Blue
    08. Nino Rotunda
    09. Night Life
    10. Sirtaki Nights
    11. Angel In A Silver Wig
    12. Sweetie Night
    13. Goodbye Long Street
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    BRUNO SPOERRI

    Langstrasse zwischen 12 und 12

    [engl] Oft overlooked for over half a century while misfiled amongst exploit bellydance records and holidaymaker souvenirs this one-off twelve track album is the only existing full-length record by the best-kept mutant musical secret of the Armenian American diaspora, oud pop maestro Charles ‘Chick’ Ganimian.One of the earliest examples of any kind of recorded fusion between rhythm heavy pop music and traditional Turkish music, Ganimian’s developments in New York City - with his sadly unrecorded turk jerk combo The Nor-Ikes (New Dawn) combo – ran almost simultaneously alongside the rising Anadolou Pop scene in Turkey, resulting in his short lived powerhouse of Kif proto-rock under the changing names of Ganim’s Asia Minors, Ganimian & His Orientals and Ganimian & His Oriental Music Orchestra. Combining a line-up of mostly unknown musicians from his local community (where he was worked as a butcher), Ganimian, in a short unison with ATCO records, was fortunate enough to accommodate jazz guitarist Al Schactman as part of his studio personnel (launching the career of this Nina Simone regular) as well as French born Armenian folk singer Onnik Dinkjian and reid player Steve Bogoshian (both from the band The House Of The Seven Uncles) as well as the esteemed Turkish raised Kanun player Ahmet Yatman. As one of the very few early American recorded authentic Middle Eastern fusion record Come With Me To The Casbah has piqued a refined interest in a new generation of progressive world music collector resulting in a distinct drought in original Ganimian pressings on the collectors’ market earning Chicks name a rising placeholder on the want lists of DJs, vinyl hounds and ethno psychedelia collectors.This LP includes all of Ganimians recordings including the rare singles for Atco and East West which sit awkwardly next to bizarre and unique takes on popular American standards enhancing the exciting freak factor of this record which simply could not be made by today’s stifling self-aware anti-standards. Aside from rare (poorly recorded) private family tapes this album is the only chance to hear the music of this lost enigma of early world music, Eastern fusion and a missing kink in the fabric of New York pop music history captured before his short stint as an exotic Herbie Mann sideman which proceeded his migration into obscurity and his well-imparted tragic struggle with alcohol dependency depriving pop culture of a forward thinking pioneer who paved the way for the more credible exponents of the cross-continental Indo fusion enigma such as John Berberian and the later well pruned hard rock efforts of The Devils Anvil.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    27.05.2016
    EAN
    EAN 5060099506215
     
  • 01. La Ballade du Zwin
    02. Ein Kleiner Mann
    03. Ud
    04. Piume al Vento
    05. Nelle
    06. Granvelle
    07. Sabina and First Variation
    08. Un Instant
    09. Geuzenlied
    10. Sabina and Second Variation
    11. The ff Boom
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    DANIEL SCHELL and DICK ANNEGARN

    Egmont And The ff Boom

    [engl] Part fantastical historic sonic biopic, part anthropologic journey into the deep roots of Belgium’s monstrous cosmic rock sound, this wholly individualistic concept album combines the lead members of the mighty COS (Daniel Schell and Pascale Son) with studio genius Alain Pierre (Ô Sidarta/Des Morts) and celebrated Dutch progressive rock singer Dick Annegarn, for what many consider to be both the overlooked hiding place of Belgium’s deepest psychedelic moment and European prog’s lost map to the ‘Franco-Flemish Boom’. Emerging from the wider musical family that counted Marc Moulin, Placebo and Marc Hollander amongst its creative kin, Daniel Schell’s most profound conceptual project ambitiously combines the tale of the heroic historical figure of Count Egmont, while simultaneously tracing the evolution of the ud, or oud, (‘the grandfather of the guitar’) in this multifarious hallucinogenic epic. Featuring key members of other collectable groups such as drummer Felix Simtaine from Solis Lacus and bass player Jean-Louis Baudoin from the mythical Classroom (COS predecessor), this best-kept secret vinyl release also harbours the voices of Dirk Bogaert (of Belgian hard rockers Waterloo) as well as Catalan singer Ilona Chale (Marc Hollander/Aksak Maboul) before her later tenure as the COS front woman. Initially released in 1978 via Zeuhl school distributors Free Bird alongside French pressings of Don Cherry, Jacques Thollot and CAN, it is plain to understand the niche nature of this maligned “lost COS” LP as it finally blooms from between the cracked branches of European jazz-rock-synth-psych-prog-pop history… and beyond!
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    20.07.2023
    EAN
    EAN 5060099507922
     
  • 01. Surrounding seas
    02. Light fligt
    03. Blazing Skyline
    04. Leavin' my place
    05. The cool brain
    06. Black safari
    07. Panorama
    08. Gates of pop
    09. Dreams in the wind
    10. Touch as much
    11. Strange form
    12. The orion belt
    13. Rainbow rays
    14. Like the wind you are
    15. Litha

    DECERF, JEAN-PIERRE

    Space Oddities - 1975/1978

    [engl] Jean-Pierre Decerf, born in Neuilly (a western suburb of Paris) in 1948, lived in Paris until 2003. From the early 70s to the mid-80s, this self-taught musician composed about twenty albums of production and library music with generic cover art and titles (Out of the Way, Magical Ring, Keys of the Future, Pulsations, More and More, etc.) that evoke interstellar travel. These experimental discs, made with love, humility and rudimentary means, had no ambition other than to accompany other peoples' images. By exhuming these obscurities from the dustbin of history, BORN BAD have decided otherwise. Archaeologists with an agenda, they seek to give Jean Pierre Decerf the renown he deserves: that of an innovator whose rhythmic, synthetic compositions inspired the harbingers of the French Touch (Air comes to mind), not to mention some East Coast rappers. On a warm Indian summer day, we visited him at home in a remote village in Touraine (central France), where he lives as a hermit. Sometimes he runs into Mick Jagger, who has a castle nearby, at the local supermarket. Most of the time, he speaks English with his British neighbors. [Many small villages in rural France have numerous British residents, in particular retirees.] That day, he made an exception for us and discussed his past
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    06.02.2015
    EAN
    EAN 3521381531374
    Format
    CD
    Release-Datum
    05.02.2015
    EAN
    EAN 3521383431368
     
  • 01. Werewolves on Wheels (Main Theme)
    02. Mount Shasta Home
    03. Ritual
    04. “One”
    05. Ritual 2
    06. The Devil’s Advocates
    07. The Devil’s Advocates (reprise)
    08. One Foot in Heaven
    09. Burning Grass
    10. Tarot
    11. Tarot Trail
    12. Dust Bowl
    13. The Devil’s Advocates 2
    14. Ritual 3
    15. Werewolves On Wheels (End Theme)
    16. Radio record 1 (Bonus Track)
    17. Radio record 2 (Bonus Track)
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    DON GERE

    Werewolves on Wheels

    [engl] B-movie junkies, gather round and prepare yourselves for what could only be described as a cinematic speedball. Take a combined hit of two of the most potent strains of toxic cinema, dress it up in ritualistic robes and make it dance to the beat of a stoned, motoric, country commune soundtrack. Like an exploito double bill where both films merge into a single feature, this directorial debut by an ex-Roger Corman protege and future Russ Meyer art director (another heady cocktail) is the product of one writing duo’s fleeting time in the driving seat as the moviedrome marathon approached its dwindling finish line. Werewolves On Wheels emerged in 1971 in a climate where the B-movie genre of the previous two decades began to make way for the early glimpses of imported slasher films and video nasties. Entirely out of popular context in 1971, the soundtrack music of Don Gere would perhaps reveal him as the most versatile actor involved in the whole production. Until this point, Don Gere had been a pop folk songwriter and a country music devotee, but while riding with the werewolves, Don Gere became a disjointed psych rock stoner making ritualistic commune country with more coincidentally in common with Germany’s emerging Krautrock scene or the more localised stoner psych of Skip Spence (whose radically ahead of its time LP OAR was recognised by Columbia Records as their lowest selling record in the company’s history). Imagine guitarist Sandy Bull jamming with Munich’s Amon Duul 1 or some Swedish prog outfits like Trad, Gras och Stenar or a sedated Kebnekaise. In comparison to the Curb/Allan scores, for films like Wild Angels, Devil’s Angels, Thunder Alley, and Born Losers (often released on Curb’s own Sidewalk or Tower records), the new music made by Don Gere, only three years down the line, sounds like it’s from an entirely different generation…
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    05.03.2011
    EAN
    EAN 50600995030361
     
  • 01. Theme The Antwerp Killer
    02. Beat
    03. Hippy Song
    04. Theme 2
    05. Harbour Fight
    06. Persection
    07. Cathedral Bloody Lady
    08. Theme 3
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    ERIC FEREMANS

    THE ANTWERP KILLER

    [engl] Teenage movie maverick meets synth scientist for bespoke Belgian B-movie. One of the rarest vinyl horror soundtracks of all time, 1983’s The Antwerp Killer is the rest of the remarkable homemade electronic experiments of the wunderkind synth designer and his unison with a smart-talking teenage movie maverick to create something almost unfathomable in the process. Combining self-propelled punk attitude and uninhibited confidence, the hyper pro-active work of these DIY prodigies pinpoints an important era where youthful ambition and creative technology meet. By the age of sixteen Eric Feremans started building modulators and eventually his first proto synthesiser. Teaching musicians how this new technology worked became Eric’s mission. He found that in electronic music composition the understanding of the functioning of the machine is part of the musicianship. Without this they were just fooling around with new technology. By the early 70s Eric’s synths were becoming more and more complex and he even played a concert with Belgian electronica pioneer Karel Goeyvaerts. Eric decided to create his own school where he would teach his pupils to make build synthesisers and how to play them. The EEF (from Eric E. Feremans) was created. The build-your-own packages were created by volunteers and around 20 or 30 are said to have been made. After being a guest in a national television show the demand for courses exploded and Eric was lecturing nationally and internationally. Even attracting the king of the Amsterdam Mafia who would be driven down from Amsterdam with two body guards in his Rolls Royce every week. One day Eric gets a visit from a Luc Veldeman a sixteen-year-old with a manner of speech way beyond his age and larger then life projects. Eric was in the process of making Antwerp’s first crime movie called The Antwerp Killer. He had seen Eric play live and he wanted some of his music to be used as the score and to press as a album to promote the film. Upon their first meeting Veldeman wanted a tape to convince his financial investors. Eric gave him one of the rare recordings he had made with the synthesizer. A session he had just recorded upon installing his new studio; a session, according to Eric, that was the result of the pure joy he experienced of having such a wonderful sounding machine in his studio and the bottle of vodka he downed during the session. That session was cut up by Veldeman and it was turned into the soundtrack of The Antwerp Killer. Eric ended up playing a cop in the film and the film was the opening film of the Knokke Film Festival in 1983. It was honed away by the press and the audience. Bad acting, bad editing, bad script, cool soundtrack though. Veldeman was nowhere to be seen and everybody involved who had quit their jobs or studies to coöperate on this film or put in their money in it saw their hopes disappear. Veldeman had even rented all the film equipment with a false identity and then dumped it all in the canal after the shooting. When the cops eventually found out about his they weren’t even able to arrest him being a minor. A magnum opus of a true criminal and the synthesiser teacher of the Amsterdam Mafia King, The Antwerp Killer remains a prime document of the broody Belgian 80s and a heck of a soundtrack.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    21.12.2015
     
  • 01. La Reine Des Vampires Theme Take 5
    02. La Reine Des Vampires Theme Take 4
    03. La Reine Des Vampires Theme Take 3
    04. La Reine Des Vampires Theme Take 2
    05. La Reine Des Vampires Theme Take 1
    06. La Reine Des Vampires Unused Cue 1
    07. La Reine Des Vampires Rejected Theme 1
    08. La Reine Des Vampires Unused Cue 6
    09. La Reine Des Vampires Unused Cue 11
    10. La Reine Des Vampires Rejected Theme 2
    11. La Reine Des Vampires Rejected Theme 2
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    FRANCOIS TUSQUES

    La Reine Des Vampires 1967

    [engl] As a central figure of one of Europe's most vibrant inter-communal music movements, Francois Tusques’ involvement as a central figure in the French free jazz scene (alongside Barney Wilen, Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Jacques Thollot) is as indispensable as it is synonymous. As a wholly improv- isational live music entity running simultaneously (at times pre-emptively) to its early 60s American counterpart this self-styled music revolution remained truly independent, both creatively and logistically, rendering original physical audio documents virtually unobtainable save the few vinyl mementoes which cross human hands for hefty bounties beneath counters of record fairs before reach- ing the electronic auctions. As the first release in a series of long overdue reis- sues and vintage archival debuts Cacophonic Records present this previously presumed lost unreleased studio session from 1967 which sees the cross-pol- lination of two of France’s most exciting counter-culture families, combining the open music of Tusques and the moving image of experimental horror direc- tor Jean Rollin. Originally conceived as an ongoing series of surreal/comic book style film or TV episodes fusing Rollin’s past experiences with illustrators like Nicolas Devil/Philippe Druillet and Tusques’ groundbreaking avant-garde credentials this cinematic debut for both parties commenced in 1967 under the working title La Reine Des Vampires before being distributed and commonly (inaccu- rately) recognised as ‘France’s first vampire film’ under the title Viol Du Vampire. Staying faithful to the projects original title and intention this dedicat- ed audio release hears the original unedited performance in its original form before Rollin’s sound editors got to work with their ruthless tape splicers, dia- logue synchronisation and recycling tactics. La Reine Des Vampires features an all-star line-up of Barney Wilen, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Bernard Guerin and Eddie Gaumont - assembled by Tusques in the same months that followed the important manifesto of the avant-garde that embossed the groups name on the French musical map. This advent collides at the exact point where Rollin (as an erotic writer and avant-garde theatre patron) first commit- ted his filmic experiments to feature length celluloid proving this previously unheard artifact to be a significant landmark at the start of both a controversial cinematic legacy and a genuinely experimental domestic music career (watch this space) that immediately went on to magnetise the likes of Don Cherry, and Archie Shepp and Sunny Murray in the following year. Remastered from Tusques’ very own studio master tapes and including an extra lost bonus track from his personal "work-in-progress" Ferrograph dubs this LP not only includes the unedited soundtrack source material but compiles a number of high quality studio demos originally turned down by Rollin in 1967. The approved themes found on the a-side of the record were also rearranged and edited for the soundtrack for Rollin’s second feature film La Vampire Nue without Tusques’ prior consent providing an extra twist in the tale and instant- ly giving this first time release a technical "double soundtrack" status.
    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    27.01.2014
    EAN
    EAN 5060099505089
     
  • 01. Generique
    02. Trois Vies S'Eclipsent
    03. Enterrement A Neuilly
    04. Peripherique Sud
    05. L'Homme De Drancy
    06. Rue D'Aboukir
    07. Interrogatoire
    08. La Routine
    09. Silence Desespere
    10. Au Rendez-Vous Des Amis
    11. Destination La Defense
    12. Adieu Mandom
    13. Fait Accompli
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    FRIEDRICH PARAVICINI

    Adieu Mandom

    Format
    LP
    Release-Datum
    13.11.2014
    Format
    CD
    Release-Datum
    13.11.2014