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1LP Limited Edition
Release Date:
9/12/2022
Label: Miasmah

Description

Erik K Skodvin's feature-length score to Thomas Roth's thriller "Schächten" feels like the epitome of all his musical projects, conjuring a dark cinematic trip through 1960's post-WWII Vienna in a film that touches on topics such as law, justice & revenge.

Releasing a soundtrack as a stand-alone album can be challenging; and "Schächten" is by no means a typical listening experience. The record contains 24 more or less short pieces evolving through dramatic movements, underlaying menace and deep emotive scenes. One thing that stands out is the linear atmosphere throughout the story which creates a wholeness that keeps your attention to the very end. Set in wintery Austrian landscapes in dimly saturated colours, the film's dramatic events with dark political undertones feels like a perfect situation for Skodvin's atmospheric collages - perhaps sounding closer than ever to his early works as Svarte Greiner or Deaf Center. Cello, violin, piano, analogue synth and plenty of hardly recognizable instrumentation come together in a record that feels very organic in its subdued tones. The score also features percussion by Andrea Belfi as well as a Chopin piano interpretation by Kelly Wyse to the bizarrely schizophrenic piece "Judenfreund".

With the contemporary world sliding into darkness again, listening to the soundtrack feels like coming to terms with ones own anxieties - something that in the end comes through as a cleansing experience. As quoted in the film "Everyone is their own devil. And we make this world our hell".

Short synopsis : "Vienna 1960s - The young Jewish business man Victor has to witness how the prosecution of a Nazi crime against his family fails. The political and legal system is still virtually run by former Nazis with large parts of society being entangled in the past. When Victor also loses his grief ridden father and his girlfriend’s family opposes their relationship and his identity, Victor begins to loose faith in formal justice and takes matters in his own hands." 

Tracklisting

A01 Slaughter
A02 Dusk
A03 Winter Clouds
A04 Hollow Tree
A05 Still Alive
A06 The Cave
A07 In Court
A08 Hope Through Confusion
A09 Not Quilty
A10 Village Ceremony
A11 Road Tension
B01 Kneipe
B02 Hunt Introduction
B03 Rifle, Second Attempt
B04 Hunt Epilogue
B05 Confrontation
B06 Judenfreund
B07 Flashback, Victor
B08 A True Friend
B09 False Promises
B10 How Do You Suffocate Weeds
B11 Under The Mask We All Look The Same
B12 Dream
B13 Freedom 

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