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  • Audio CD (27 Nov 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Finders Keepers
  • ASIN: B000JBWWCY
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 103,543 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Finders Keepers make musical history once again with what they regard as their very finest, darkest and most magnificent hour as they release the delicately haunting and sacred score to Jaromil Jires' essential Eastern European hallucinogenic-baroque-witch-flick 'Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders'. It has taken Andy Votel almost 12 years to finally get his grubby vinyl-magnetic mits on the original studio recordings of this previously unreleased score. A futile decade of Eastern European phone calls, continental crate digging and eventually wicked web scouring confirmed that like most Czechoslovakian film scores "Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders" never benefited from a commercial vinyl release and was condemned to a life imprisoned in the vaults of the original film production company sheltered from political duress and controversy for ever more... until now.

Aided and abetted by his counter cultured compatriats at Finders Keepers a black virgin-vinyl and CD duplication of the original master-tapes are now available for one and all to enjoy courtesy of the men who performed previous death-defying escape missions for Stanley Myers soundtrack music to "Sitting Target" and providing psychedelic amnesty for buried treasures by Jean-Claude Vannier, Susan Christie and a veritable hoard of progressive Welsh folk music. And what better time and climate to unleash this Baroque folk masterpiece to an audience of bespoke music lovers as now - as our affection for traditional mystic music reaches a healthy hiatus.

Lubos Fiser provides what is perhaps the greatest musical score of all the maligned Czech New Wave feature-films with a gossamer-fragile blend of pastoral-orchestral folk songs and clockwork harpsichords. From the very first delicate chord to the final crescendo this joyous sound is as addictive as the bizarre imagery seen in this seldom celebrated cinematic gem (which was screened in front of 300 mesmerized patrons of this years Green Man festival). Naturally the list of musical pioneers who freely confess there allegiance to the score verifies it's elevated place in contemporary pop. Birmingham's dedicated concrete-pop-psych combo Broadcast recently paid homage to the soundtrack on there 'Ha-Ha Sound' LP while groups such as Espers, Fursaxa and Marissa Nadler recently contributed to a live performance of the soundtrack as a homage to its unwaning influence on their music.

Echoes of the score can also be heard in recent music by Vashti Bunyen and it has been cited as a huge influence to the likes of Tim Burton who based the carnival scene at the end of 'Big Fish' on the original film. Previously unprepared for public consumption the immaculate release has been compiled in close accordance to the original storyline which was released in 1935 as a surrealist novel by Vladislav Nezval. The orchestral suites of music have been separated into 23 chapters with titles derived from the controversial novella. This seminal release comes complete with unseen archive images, original international poster designs and new and extensive sleevenotes by Andy Votel, Professor Peter Hames and Trish Keenan from Broadcast.

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED on any format taken from the original reels and acetates! Deluxe vinyl and CD with exclusive pics and extensive liner notes written by folk-funk archivist Keith D'Arcy


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5.0 out of 5 stars Mesmeric and haunting tingles down your spine, 1 Mar 2007
By G. Argenio (Manchester) - See all my reviews
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This is the music you here as you fall into your dreams. these are the sounds of your subconscious. Beautiful and terrifying in equal measure. Think of your grand mpthers musical boxes, steam driven fairground organs and the catholic incantations of adolescent schoolgirls and you might come some way to approximating the sonic pleasures captured on this soundtrack.

In parts it is whimsical and light as the mechanical harpsichords play the same refrain throughout but don't be lulled into a sense of delightful reverie because around every corner there is a jolt or jarrring sound that reminds you that this is an unsettling soundtrack. Churchbells peeling in the distance and wolves baying are just a couple of the gothic delights.

There are baroque organs followed by pastoral flutes and gentle acoustic guitar that reminds me of David Axelrod's Song of Innocence and I think this comparison with Axelrod is quite valid as the religious motifs in his Blake inspired work can also be felt in this.

I would recommend this record to all music lovers looking for a challenging ambience but not for the faint hearted or pop lovers
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