Nekromantik: Original Expanded 1987 Soundtrack LP+7" Buttgereit horror score NEW

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Nekromantik: Original Expanded 1987 Motion Picture Soundtrack (SPECIAL EDITION) LP + 7"

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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     I consider myself pretty hardened to depictions of atrocity in art, but there were permanent scars left after my initial encounter with the putrescent, visionary art-gore of German madman Jörg Buttgereit. The Nekromantik series of films that Buttgereit produced in the late 80s/early 90s still retains a primal, disturbing power, with some of the most controversial and taboo-shattering imagery yet put to film. And you can thank the bizarre soundtracks that accompanied those films for at least part of their disturbing aura. For the original Nekromantik, Buttgereit enlisted some friends from the German punk and industrial scene to produce a strange sonic backdrop to his images of necrophilia, murder, and dysfunctional sex; isolated, the Nekromantik score is a bizarre, avant-garde soundscape that can still unnerve and disturb, but it also glints with moments of joyous beauty, and in my opinion sits alongside Lynch's musical work for Eraserhead in terms of abstract, nightmarish power. A chunk of this score had previously been available as part of Hermann Kopp's Nekronology compilation, but the full, complete Nekromantik score with the other composers had never been available on vinyl or cassette until now.
     The three tracks from German musician Daktari Lorenz includes the film's weird waltz-like theme, which like the rest of Lorenz's contributions features stilted orchestral synth sounds, acoustic guitar and tinny percussion to create an unsettling, unnatural atmosphere, a mix of low-tech symphonic bombast and more intimate melody that contrasts queasily with the earlier sequences in the film.
     John Boy Walton (aka German composer Benedikt Middeler, a member of the renowned country-punk band The Waltons) brings a sweet, romantic feel to the two compositions he created for the score, achingly beautiful piano pieces that play out over the film's scenes of gut-churning sexuality, which in some ways makes his tracks among the most disturbing when paired up with those cinematic images, gorgeous and lyrical music violently at odds with the scenes of charnel horror that Buttgereit splays across the screen.
     But it's Hermann Kopp's music that makes up the bulk of the score. Kopp's contribution is the creepiest music here, a kind of damaged outsider jazz/folk mixed with primitive drum machines, violins, and random objects, producing something that, in my old review of the Red Stream CD of his collected Nekronology, I described as having "...a dreary, mournful vibe, heavy with quivering violins and lush Moog synths, frequently merging together into something resembling a slow motion funeral march. Sounds of bubbling liquids and crazed muttering are combined with primitive doom-laden keyboards and wistful music box melodies, and the atonal weeping of violin strings give way to the sound of body parts being sawn off and the thud as they hit the floor." And like I mentioned in that review, stuff like the funereal dirge-folk of "Supper" almost sounds like the blackened cello-creep of Dead Raven Choir, depraved and discordant, miserable yet weirdly mesmerizing as Kopp's broken melody circles drunkenly through a thin, murky haze of spiritual nausea. His other tracks are similarly horrifying noisescapes, tangles of high-end squeal and tortured strings that would rival the likes of Borbetomagus, or maudlin funerary jazz that drifts over droning electrical currents, washes of rotting tape-noise and ghastly, Throbbing Gristle-esque loops, gritty yet haunting.
     The 7" that comes with this set features two alternate versions of Walton's tracks (including a monstrously dissonant version of his heartbreaking "Menage A Trois" theme), a pounding neo-classical composition from Lorenz called "Gardener" that juxtaposes blaring synth-horns with the sound of a man being decapitated, and alternate versions of two of Kopps' tracks.
     And for this limited edition expanded version, the set also comes with a postcard-flexi that features a cover of the "Nekromantik" theme by Norwegian black metal sickos Carpathian Forest, which had previously appeared on the band's Strange Old Brew album; here, the song is pressed into a large full-color postcard that features Nekromantik's classic film poster art.
     It's the best presentation that this score has ever received, beautifully presented in a case-wrapped heavyweight gatefold jacket that includes an insert with new liner notes from Kopp, Lorenz and assistant director Franz Rodenkirchen, as well as a new interview with Buttgereit. Limited to five hundred machine-numbered copies.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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