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Faust, Art Zoyd

C. Rich | 04/14/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Faust: Art Zoyd:



Art Zoyd is a highly advanced chamber ensemble that has made a special and systematic focus on huge themes from the literature of heaven and hell problems.



Among the monsters they' ve tackled are Blakes' Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Nosferatu, Metropolis, and Faust. These projects are always elaborate mixed media music theater spectacles, an equivalent to the Wooster Group here in the US or the plays of Robert Wilson.



The music is exceptional. It belongs to some strange rarified world inhabited by Heiner Goebbels, Alban Berg's opera's, Zappa from his Uncle Meat or Yellow Shark works, the music movies of Hector Zazou or Laswell's collaboration with William Burroughs, 'Seven Souls'.



'Faust' was composed to work with a 1926 film version of Faust by F. W. Murnau. It is gloriously spooky, shimmers, shivers and roars throughout and probably is a hit with some micro subculture of the Goth crowd.



I plan to get everything they've ever done as a hedge against senile dementia as there is evidence to suggest that regular exposure to glistening washes of majestic noise helps the brain chemistry.



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