The path of revolution still exists

 

(Jonny Greenwood (Oxford, 1971) is a British lead guitarist, keyboardist, programmer and composer; he is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Radiohead, and has composed numerous film scores.

 

Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist and a prominent player of the ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument. He uses electronic techniques such as programming, sampling and looping, and writes music software used by Radiohead. He described his role as an arranger, helping transform Thom Yorke's demos into finished songs. Radiohead albums feature Greenwood's string and brass arrangements, and he has composed for orchestras including the London Contemporary Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra).

 

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Life and death in four walls

 

(Jonny Greenwood (Oxford, 1971) is a British lead guitarist, keyboardist, programmer and composer; he is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Radiohead, and has composed numerous film scores. 

Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist and a prominent player of the ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument. He uses electronic techniques such as programming, sampling and looping, and writes music software used by Radiohead. He described his role as an arranger, helping transform Thom Yorke's demos into finished songs. Radiohead albums feature Greenwood's string and brass arrangements, and he has composed for orchestras including the London Contemporary Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra).

 

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Lystens skove

 

(Kristian Eidnes Andersen is a Danish composer with more than 30 years of experience in film music and sound.

 

With a degree from The National Film School of Denmark he has designed sound and arranged compositions on more than 100 films including a long list of Lars von Trier’s productions a.o. Manderley, Antichrist, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac. He has collaborated numerous times with Norwegian Per Olav Sørensen on the TV series The Half Brother, The Heavy Water War, Nobel and upcoming Netflix series Quicksand.

 

Kristian Eidnes Andersen favours both big productions with directors such as Lars Von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt), Nicolas Winding Refn (Only God Forgives), but also more independent films and documentaries such as Democrats (2014), Something better to come (2014) A Caretakers Tale (2011), and The Weight of Elephant’s (2012), all with an international festival and theatrical life.

 

He won a special Bodil for the sound design of Anticrist (2010) and was nominated for a Harpa award for Amada Kernell’s Sámi blood (2018)).

 

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Pod mořem je vždy přirozený rytmus

 

(Zdeněk Liška (1922 - 1983) was a Czech composer; he produced a large of number film scores across a prolific career that started in the 1950s. He was revelatory in his contribution to the development of electronic music. His music in this field is noticeable and dramatic, based on a unique musical feeling achieved through using quite unusual instrumental combinations and various electronic and electroacoustic techniques.

Liška worked notably with animator Jan Švankmajer, scoring several of his earlier short films: Punch and Judy (1966), Et Cetera (1966), Historia Naturae (Suita) (1967), The Flat (1968), Don Juan (1969), The Ossuary (1970), Jabberwocky (1971), and Leonardo's Diary (1972), and later The Castle of Otranto (1979). Liška's music for Švankmajer's Historia Naturae (Suita), The Flat, and The Ossuary was also featured in the 1984 short film by American animators the Brothers Quay entitled The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer.

He also created a great number of iconic scores for important live-action films of the Czech New Wave including The Shop on Main Street, Marketa Lazarová, The Valley of the Bees, Fruit of Paradise, The Cremator and Ikarie XB-1).

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A passacaglia over my brain

(Red Hot + Bach is a classical/contemporary with a latin touchy compilation made by Masterworks label on 2014 as a style-blended hommage to Johann Sebastian Bach and his work).

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Surge et perambula matris, suscitat de hoc sempiternum somnum

Last sounds before boarding the Charon ship.

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The count came across the ocean to spread disease

The eternal pain sleeps in frights into a ruined old castle...

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A requiem for the fallen

Mourning in a desolate hopelessness.

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The True Spirit of Nature (Repost)

Diving into Magic places, exploring the essence of nature, kodamas guiding me across soft branches of knowledge.

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Wie Er In Die Welt Kam?

The Golem is a 1920 silent horror film by Paul Wegener; the film concerns itself with the legendary creation of the Golem by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel. In the 16th century, the jews of Prague face persecution, so Rabbi Loew creates a giant Golem out of clay to protect the people. Unfortunately, the creature rebels, setting fire to the ghetto, and wreaks deadly havoc. The only way to stop the Golem would be removing the amulet (magic 5-pointed star) from its chest, but it is not an easy task to do.

Great 1977 re-score from the original one, a must to hear and (course) see the movie.

Karl-Ernst Sasse - Der Golem [Rescore from 1920's Version]

The Real Subaquatic World (Repost)

This is an ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world. This pretty meditative movie blends a sense of awe at nature's watery wonders with a plea for greater respect for the global environment.

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Touching the Ether Waves (Repost)

Many people think of the theremin as cliched electronic effect used in film scores of the 50's and 60's. That is, until they hear the playing of Clara Rockmore.

Rockmore was born in Russia, and showed great musical talent as a child. She played the violin, and by the age of nine, was playing concerts with her concert pianist sister, Nadia. She traveled to New York for a tour, and at this time, she met Leon Theremin, the inventor of the theremin. The theremin is an electronic instrument that can be played without touching it, just by using gestures.When Leon Theremin met Rockmore, he realized that she could make people realize that his design could be used as a real musical instrument. Theremin worked with Rockmore to refine his instrument designs. Rockmore went on to show audiences that the theremin was capable of being used to play the classics. This inspired new compositions specifically for the Theremin. She became a well-known performer, and is considered the greatest theremin player of all time.

She died in 1998, but she left behind a series of recordings that document the sound of the theremin, and her great skill as an electronic music performer.

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The Rising of Moloch (Repost)

 It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the Thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the Workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a whole. One man from the "thinkers" dares visit the underground where the workers toil, and is astonished by what he sees...

Original Complete Score from the amazing 1927 Fritz Lang's Metropolis

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Clara, how we miss you... (Repost)

For me, the word Clara Rockmore (Lithuanian born Clara Reisenberg, 1991-1998) means pure magic and sounds like wind shaking the clouds in a clear shinny day; that northen princess became the inspirational muse and endless love of russian master and beloved genius Léon Theremin (who will will be honored in a next post) developed a whole technique for playing the Theremin, including a fingering system, which allowed her to accurately perform fast passages and large note leaps without the much known portamento on the instrument.

In words of the photographer Steve Sherman, great-nephew of Clara Rockmore: it is with deep personal pleasure that I announce that Clara's second album "Lost Theremin Album" is finally out and available, which truth be told was really just lost in Bob Moog's basement, comprises the additional material recorded by Bob and Shirleigh during the same July 1975 sessions that produced Clara's first album "The Art of the Theremin". While Moog was delighted with our plans to finally release this material (just prior to his taking ill), we were only able to locate and retrieve these 5-track reel to reel tapes after he died (thanks to Mike Adams). Of the 5 tracks, two were primarily theremin, two were primarily piano, and the fifth was only theremin from a direct electronic hookup to the instrument. Aside from a few false starts and maybe 5 retakes, the entire 2 albums worth of music was recorded straight through without break, and without any edits. What you hear is pure unadulterated Clara and Nadia. Well, almost. Dad had the tapes digitized and re-mastered at Sony Studios, and added a few extra parts (guitar in Estrellita, strings in Pastoral, and 8 cellos in Bachianas). He worked long and hard on this project, overseeing every aspect, and if I say so myself, he did a brilliant job. This CD sounds amazing, and our whole family is very proud of this effort. Clara, Nadia, Bob Moog, and Lev Sergeyevich would all have been very proud as well. And if I may add a personal note, NO one would have been more proud than Clara's beloved Bob Rockmore.

Rest in Peace, beloved lady.

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