Nosferatu

by John Zorn

Nosferatu cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 20 April 2012
  • Label: Tzadik
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:01:13
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Commissioned specifically to soundtrack F.W. Murnau's legendary 1922 silent horror film, the incredibly prolific avant-garde composer delivers one of his darkest contemporary works. Featuring a quartet centered around Bill Laswell's heavily distorted bass and Rob Burger's haunting organ work, the album seamlessly blends creeping classical minimalism with violent outbursts of atonal metal and jazz. The project perfectly captures the dreadful, expressionist atmosphere of the cinematic masterpiece it accompanies.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, Soundtrack, atonal, dissonant, avant-garde, piano, chamber, atmospheric, soundtrack, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Desolate Landscape (4:33)
  2. Mina (3:36)
  3. The Battle Of Good And Evil (5:14)
  4. Sinistera (3:23)
  5. Van Helsing (3:26)
  6. Fatal Sunrise (3:18)
  7. Hypnosis (2:11)
  8. Lucy (2:46)
  9. Nosferatu (2:28)
  10. The Stalking (7:34)
  11. The Undead (4:00)
  12. Death Ship (2:00)
  13. Jonathan Harker (5:29)
  14. Vampires At Large (4:18)
  15. Renfield (3:32)
  16. Stalker Dub (3:25)

Credits

  • Rob Burger - piano, organ

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