CHRISTOPHER (KRZYSZTOF) KOMEDA Dance Of The Vampires LP cult horror soundtrack

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CHRISTOPHER (KRZYSZTOF) KOMEDA Dance Of The Vampires LP

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(Seriés Aphonos)
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   Before his untimely death in 1968 from an accidental brain injury, Polish composer and pioneering modern jazz pianist Krzysztof Komeda produced original scores for four films from famed director Roman Polanski, the most well-known of which is his haunting musical backdrop to Polanski's classic 1968 film Rosemary's Baby, one of the real classics of Satanic panic. But that wasn't the first time that Komeda had worked on a horror film score; the previous year saw him producing the score for another Polanski film, the surrealistic vampire farce The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me but Your Teeth Are in My Neck, originally produced under the superior title Dance of the Vampires. Polanski's film is a darkly whimsical spoof of the Hammer-influenced gothic horror films that were all the rage at the time, and whose campy humor was also underscored by an eerie, dreamlike atmosphere that was jolted by some nicely crafted scares. It's one of Polanski's less regarded works, though fans of late 60's horror movies really owe it to themselves to give it a look; and this lesser-known score from Komeda certainly deserved this reassessment, after having gone on to gain a devoted following among aficionados of classic horror and experimental film scores in the decades since.
    And for good reason: Dance Of The Vampires is a surprisingly eerie score, with Komeda weaving together strains of mystical European folk music, eerie choir voices, bits of avant-garde jazziness, creeping bass lines and asthmatic horns, dreamy waltzes, the sound of harpsichord, oboe and choral singers all figuring prominently throughout these tracks, drifting together through this gorgeously chilly atmosphere. The score moves from that stunning opening theme into passages of unearthly ambience and swells of romantic strings, to haunting, low-key orchestrations and those terrifying choral sequences; some of the sections early on are light and whimsical in keeping with the film's more humorous and playful moments, but Komeda also adds a heavy dose of understated creepiness, like the ghostly wailing found on the track "Vampires To Crypt". While it doesn't reach the magnificent heights that the score for Rosemary's Baby did, this is a wonderfully offbeat soundtrack filled with a baroque, dreamlike atmosphere that remains one of the better works in the realm of late-60s Euro-horror. Released by experimental/jazz label Seriés Aphonos on vinyl for the first time ever, this new reissue of Komeda's Dance also includes a CD version of the album in a printed cardboard sleeve.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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