Label: ADN

イタリアの重鎮コンビが名作ホラーの為に書き下ろした50分超えの超傑作コンクレート!!1974年から1985年にかけてアフリカ、インド、東南アジアの音楽を学ぶために世界中を旅し現地にて音楽を録音、世界各地の民族楽器を研究及び収集し自身らの音源制作に還元してきたイタリア実験界の重要コンビRoberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta。本作はデンマーク人のカール・テオドア・ドライヤー監督による、1932年公開の伝説的なサイレント映画"Vampyr"の為に書き下ろした未発表長編を軸としたサントラCD。ドゥミトレスクのHyperion Ensembleとの絡みやHenry Cowドラマーとしても有名なChris Cutlerが演奏に参加、彼らが目指して来たプロト・ワールド・ミュージックの後期の作品となる極めて峻厳な内容。その他80年代の7つの小作品を収録。







In the late 1980s two globetrotting Milanese composers joined forces to produce an acclaimed and prescient record made in equal parts from their own performances and ethnic field recordings, a little in the manner of Eno/Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - but rather more evolved. This 30th anniversary release includes some early pieces, not already available on CD made this way but, mainly, features the entirety of their score for Theodore Carl Dreyer's legendary silent film, Vampyr - performed by themselves and percussionist Chris Cutler - a mixture of acoustic and electronic resources in tableaux as stark as the movie itself.

'We started working together in 1985, mainly inspired by the works of the concrete-music masters, such as Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, the minimalist composing style of Steve Reich and Terry Riley, the piano ostinatos by Abdullah Ibrahim (AKA Dollar Brand) and by the works of Holger Czukay, more specifically Boat-woman song (with Rolf Dammers, 1969) and the album Movies (1979), together with My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by David Byrne & Brian Eno (1981), all landmarks of a "proto" world music, or at least for what we intended our music should sound like: a more or less complex mixture of elements from different musical cultures. We soon realized that some modal, atonal, or even microtonal samples taken from field recordings we made or simply "stole" from traditional music LPs, if wisely combined with "western" harmony and instruments, could alchemically generate a completely different music. Later, we tried to extend this process of transformation to any kind of sound, in time (chronologically, from the very beginning of musical history) and space (geographically, from every corner of the planet). Our soundtrack of Dreyer's Vampyr was one of our latest attempts to combine all these elements.