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lubos fiser - valerie and her week of wonders - finders keepers - cd

Genre: Soundtracks

1. The Magic Yard
2. Talk With Grandmother
3. The Letter
4. The Sermon
5. Losing The Way
6. The Visit
7. The Work of Death
8. Dinner
9. Dense Smoke
10. The Contract / The Wedding
11. The Punishment
12. Disquiet
13. Awakening
14. Brother and Sister
15. Sacrifice
16. The Letter 2 / Friends
17. In Flames
18. Puppets
19. Homeless
20. Questions and Answers
21. Confession
22. Forgiveness
23. And The Last

Album release of this 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.

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