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01. Luboš Fišer - Dust To Dust
02. Luboš Fišer - Matching Mirrors/Morgiana's Prowl
03. Luboš Fišer - Swan Steps
04. Luboš Fišer - Klara & Viktorie
05. Luboš Fišer - Prospective Suitor Marek
06. Luboš Fišer - Red Ghost
07. Luboš Fišer - Quinine
08. Luboš Fišer - I Don't Want Any Flowers
09. Luboš Fišer - Viktorie's Darkest Moment
10. Luboš Fišer - Message From Marek
11. Luboš Fišer - Klara's Thirst
12. Luboš Fišer - Lost In The Tavern
13. Luboš Fišer - Sapphires at the Green Flute
14. Luboš Fišer - The Cards
15. Luboš Fišer - Blood Red Roses
16. Luboš Fišer - Crimson Elixir
17. Luboš Fišer - Alžbeta Behind The Curtain
18. Luboš Fišer - Kučera Steps
19. Luboš Fišer - Dust Settles
20. Luboš Fišer - Morgiana (Opening Titles)
21. Zdenek Liska - Merciful Nature
22. Zdenek Liska - Spalovač mrtvol
23. Zdenek Liska - Potala Tibet
24. Zdenek Liska - Gifted Zina
25. Zdenek Liska - Holy Pictures
26. Zdenek Liska - This Charming Lady
27. Zdenek Liska - Mr. Strauss Crosses The Road
28. Zdenek Liska - Mr. Dvorák And The Timetable Of Death
29. Zdenek Liska - Mili's Carousel (Lovely Acrobatics)
30. Zdenek Liska - Waxworks/The Baths Of Franzensbad
31. Zdenek Liska - Drosophila Funebris
32. Zdenek Liska - How Unfortunate Are Those Who Die Unaware Of The Beauty Of Music/Lakmé's Preparation
33. Zdenek Liska - Louis Marin
34. Zdenek Liska - Miss Dagmar's Room
35. Zdenek Liska - Poor Miss Carska
36. Zdenek Liska - Mournful Cantor (Jewish Prayer)
37. Zdenek Liska - Kopfrkingl Salutes Death
38. Zdenek Liska - Casino On Rose Street
39. Zdenek Liska - Vison Of The Temple
40. Zdenek Liska - Lakmé's Cremation
41. Zdenek Liska - The Throne In Lhasa Awaits
42. Zdenek Liska - H. Bosch
43. Zdenek Liska - Running Zina/The Stars Are Above Us
44. Zdenek Liska - I Shall Sit On The Throne
ARTIST
TITLE
Morgiana/The Cremator
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BMS 051CD BMS 051CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/19/2014

2013 release. Galvanizing its ongoing commitment to the lost music of the Czech New Wave cinema movement from the late 1960s and 1970s, B-Music presents 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, director Juraj Herz. Regarded as the final 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 scrutinized censorship era, deep in the throes of communism. Lubos Fiser's score for Morgiana visits darker hallucinogenic corners for this tale of two sisters seen through the perspective of giallo- esque "cat's eye" camera work revealing poison-induced hysteria fuelled by sibling rivalry and desperately twisted jealousy. Adopting his mysteriously macabre musical persona, the versatile Fiser 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. Drawing similarities with other stark monochrome thrillers, such as Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Herz's comparatively untraveled classic 1969 feature film, The Cremator, also used the apolitical subjects of fantasy and surrealist horror to evade the communist censors overzealous censorship. Herz's macabre depiction of Ladislav Fuks' fictional account of a local crematorium boss whose hallucinogenic obsession with the afterlife is boasted by a beguiling score and theme tune from the country's finest experimental soundtrack composer, Zdeněk Liska. Featuring an ongoing partnership with studio conductor Frantisek Belfín and soprano singer Vlasta Soumarová Mlejnková, Liska puts his radical concrète and resampling techniques to one side in favor of celestial choral and orchestral arrangements; menacing giallo-esque tension and recurring rhythmical motifs of Eastern bells and chimes. From a country and era when isolated soundtrack music remained commercially-unreleased, these two scores have been rescued and remastered, featuring extensive liner notes by Andy Votel and Dan Bird.