Klaus Schulze - Next Of Kin (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Genre: AMBIENT / NEW AGE / ELECTRONIC SCORE / STAGE & SCREEN 

Format: 1LP Edition
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Item Notes

1LP Edition
Release Date:
9/4/2019
Label: The Roundtable

Description

* Limited to 500 copies

Praised by Quentin Tarantino as one of the greatest films from Australian New Wave cinema, Next Of Kin (1982) was a highly stylised psychological thriller in the bloody tradition of European art-Horror. Scored by none other than ex-Tangerine Dream/Ash Ra Tempel drummer and German electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze, the music featured in the film was a unique hybrid of pulsing Giallo-moods and hypnotic Berlin-School electronica. Due to the limited availability of the film over the years, rumours have long circulated amongst horror film fans as well as 'Krautrock' enthusiasts alike that a lost Klaus Schulze soundtrack existed. Commissioned to write the score, it is true that Schulze composed an original full-length soundtrack for Next Of Kin, although for editorial reasons the complete score was rejected at the last moment by the filmmakers in favour of using pre-existing tracks from Schulze's studio albums. The final soundtrack consisted of partial elements of this rejected score together with various pieces of early 80s Schulze recordings edited and re-contextualized. Finally rediscovered, the music has been assembled and presented here exactly as featured in the film, documenting a previously lost entry of German Kosmische Musik soundtracking a forgotten piece of Australian Gothic.

Tracklisting

A1 Title Theme
A2 Love Theme
A3 Rhythm Fugue
A4 Diary Theme
A5 Body In Bath
A6 Next Of Kin
A7 Watching Theme
A8 Crash Loop
B1 Linda Flees
B2 Dream Theme
B3 Linda’s Run
B4 Kaiser-Walzer Op. 437
B5 End Theme 

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