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FKR062CD/LP
Andrzej Korzynski
POSSESSION
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As our maiden voyage into an expansive vat of unreleased music by Polish composer Andrzej Korzynski,
Finders Keepers Records presents his previously unreleased electro/orchestral/experimental score for
Andrzej Zulawski's surrealist 80s horror classic, Possession. These 25 cues were written and recorded
exclusively for the 1981 award-winning film starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neil, but due to the progressive,
stark and modernist nature of the finished film less than half of them made it on to the actual
director’s cut - leaving many of the tracks on this spackage totally unheard outside of Korzynski’s studio.
The intended Possession score in its entirety marks an important axis in
Korzynski’s career where his various musical disciplines overlap. In one respect it
marks his first forays into to synth driven electronics and disco drum machines,
while other tracks epitomise the well honed techniques used in previous Zulawski
scores, such as Third Part Of The Night and The Devil, which rely on his inimitable
orchestral arrangements and combination of clavinet, Rhodes, piano and electric
guitar.
This is the first time any of this music has been released outside of the films original
context and is packaged on CD, 12" vinyl and conceptual green compact cassettes
housed in miniature clamshell cases reminiscent of the films original VHS
release that briefly adorned UK video shops in the early 1980s (before being
banned by over excited censors as one of the unproscecuted ‘video nasties' in the
infamous 1983 tape cull). The important restoration of Korzynski's music aims to
shed new light on the seldom manufactured productions of the composer whose
vast cinematic catalogue warrants overdue global status alongside other golden
era Eastern European composers such as Kryzstof Komeda, Jan Hammer and
Zdenek Liska - not to mention the best of the French and Italian soundtrackers,
such as Roubaix, Vannier and Nicolai.
Duplicated and carefully remastered directly from Korzynski's original master tapes
this album boasts the uninhibited studio experiments and retains the pre-cut ambience
as an exclusive archival forerunner to our expanded selection of Korzynski
releases later in 2012.