1. The Anonymity Ball (Prologue)
Bin ich ein Gott? Mir wird so licht!
2. The Anonymity Ball
At the Anonymity Ball/I cannot see you but I hear you call/I get higher, as you get older/I get higher, as you get older/I get high
3. Money Money
Money can get you high
4. Gunshot Boogie (Prelude and Boogie)
The forty-ninth of the great forty-eight. From an original score to the 1925 silent film 'The Gold Rush' by Charles Chaplin
5. Lady Blue
Why beat this cross into the ground?/Why hate the lost and loathe the found?/There's reasons, child - there's reasons, see/But what they are has beaten me, said Lady
6. Extreme Functionalism and the Cadaver
Coffins. Coffins filled with earth. From an original score to the 1921 silent film 'Nosferatu' by F W Murnau
7. The Fat-ass Lexicographer
Don't forget to feed the mule. From an original score to the 1925 silent film 'The Gold Rush' by Charles Chaplin
8. I'll be gone
I must be blind or mad or dead/To keep these pathways in my head/My sainted father told me long ago
9. Harmony Budge and the Pixie Biscuits
One way of getting breakfast. From an original score to the 1925 silent film 'The Gold Rush' by Charles Chaplin
10. Kitty she loves me
She thinks I'm a good boy /But I'm not a good boy
11. Alchemy
He who believes will live. From an original score to the 1926 silent film 'Faust' by F W Murnau
12. The Town of Rotting Bricks
The dogs first hear the cry/and the pigs first smell the blood/but the moon first meets the eye/of the newborn infant god
13. How do you elves have your tea?
A record of an event
14. A Kind of Innocence
I am travelling/Into a time of playful forgetting/And even if a thousand flowers/Bloom over my bones/I will not be moved
All music and lyrics by Paul Gillett except for Track 12, music by James Hazelden, lyrics by Harold Lye and Track 5, by Paul Gillett and Harold Lye. Produced by the Ang Fang Quartet and Thomas Rouch.
Recorded by Thomas Rouch at Basement Music, Melbourne, Australia between January and May 2004, except for track 12, recorded on a Sanyo MW166F cassette recorder at Harold Lye's lounge room in Melbourne, Australia in October 2001. Mixed by Thomas Rouch at Basement Music. Mastered by Ross Cockle at Sing Sing, Melbourne, Australia.
Music composed for the 1921 silent film by F W Murnau.
1. Nosferatu's Waltz
The ungainly rhythm of a dancing fiend.
2. Fo Fum Hum
The delicate equilibrium of young love.
3. A Single Jazz Twig
The agent Renfield was a strange man.
4. The Sleeve of your Remembrance
And if a parting glance should brush the sleeve of your remembrance.
5. In Walked Blood
A Carpathian tavern at dusk.
6. Praeludium Tremulum
You can not always recognise the dangers that beasts can sense at certain times.
7. An Unseemly Transportation
A most indecorous coach and horses.
8. The Gates
And he said: I have cast fire upon the world, and behold I guard it until it is ablaze.
9. Patch 'Em Up
We will go with you no further. For here begins the land of phantoms.
10. Nosferatu's First Attack
And he said: Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy.
11. Descending the Stairs
And he said: The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the days when you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive.
12. A Pair of Twigs
The men little suspected what terrible cargo they were preparing for transport.
13. Ol' Twigspine
Renfield has gone out of his mind.
14. A New Plague
Driven by the unearthly powers of the vampire, the vessel moves rapidly onwards.
15. Fatal Breath
And he said: He who shall drink from my mouth shall become like me; I myself will become he, and the hidden thing shall be revealed to him.
16. Burial at Sea
One evening at sundown, the captain and his first mate buried the last man of the crew.
17. Stickwick Stapers
They saw him escape. He strangled his keeper.
18. Ascending the Stairs
And he said: Damn the flesh that depends on the soul. Damn the soul that depends on the flesh.
19. Nosferatu's Coda
The master is dead.
All tracks composed by Paul Gillett and the Ang Fang Quartet.
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13 and 16 recorded on 2 June 2001, tracks 1, 17 and 19 recorded on 8 September 2001, and tracks 6 and 9 recorded on 2 February 2002 by Tom Rouch at Basement Music. Tracks 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 18 recorded at the premiere performance of Nosferatu at Cinemedia at Treasury Theatre by André Bernard on 6 September 2000. Mastered by Tom Rouch at Basement Music.
Photography by Ben Arnfield. Design by Vehkman.
Thanks to Floyd Thursby, Mike Koller and the National Cinémathèque, Cinemedia, the Federation of Victorian Film Societies, Sforzando, Y'nai and Eilon Morris, DJ Applejack B's Cabaret All-Stars, Man Bites God, Boat, Didymos Judas Thomas, Roald Amundsen, number 61, and the modern madness.
Faust – Soundtrack CD Music composed for the 1926 silent film by F W Murnau
1. Happytown
A peaceful town falls under the shadow of evil. 2. Funeral
Masked figures walk the streets collecting the victims of the plague – a child is orphaned. 3. Ang Fang Stomp
Panic in the streets as the death toll grows. 4. Mephistication
Mephisto appears before Faust. 5. For Lying
A flight over strange landscapes. 6. Wave
Margarethe with her family. 7. Flounce Bounce
Mephisto steals into Margarethe’s home and plants a love token in her boudoir. 8. Mrs Marthe
Margarethe’s aunt, a soothsayer. 9. Flounce for Margarethe
Margarethe and Faust, falling in love, are rudely interrupted by Mephisto. 10. Sadtown
Margarethe, spurned as a fallen woman, seeks shelter for her infant child. 11. Redemption
Faust and Margarethe are redeemed in death by their love.
Improvised music inspired by the film
12. Flying Solo
13. Flounce for Mephisto
14. Starry Night
15. Wave Showcase
16. Ang Fang Funk
All music composed by Paul Gillett and the Ang Fang Quartet.
Thanks to Cathy Dowling, Michael Koller, the Melbourne Cinematheque and Cinemedia.