RICK CORRIGAN - Faustfilm: An Opera LP

Courtesy of Chicago based label Pentiments, soundtrack for seldom seen Stan Brakhage film Faustfilm: An Opera, from 1987, performed by RICK CORRIGAN. Pressing Edition of 160.

For fans of experimental music, however, its soundtrack should prove to be no less indelible. Composed in a primitive fashion and with a pervasive sense of the uncanny identical to that of its visual complement, the work threads together several lines and fragments that continually merge the domains of avant-garde electronic music and tape-based musique concrète, marked occasionally by the diegetic playing of Faust’s horn and, most notably, the voice of Brakhage himself narrating Faust’s thoughts and episodes throughout. Like the film itself, the soundtrack stands as a singular achievement that demands the attention of enthusiasts of unsung experimental works of the past. Our hope is that this release will provide it the opportunity to gain the recognition it has always deserved.

- Guido Gamboa

PENTIMENTS 2025

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