PIANOTUNER OF EARTHQUAKES, The

Swedish soundtrack label MovieScore Media's first cd features a highly original score from the award-winning art house picture THE PIANOTUNER OF EARTHQUAKES, directed by the Quay Brothers and produced by Terry Gilliam. The music is composed by UK composer Christopher Slaski, evoking the suggestive atmosphere of the film, his original score is both frighteningly beautiful - and beautifully frightening! The eclectic score uses Antonio Vivaldi’s beautiful ”Nisi Dominus” as its main theme, while selections from the late British composer Trevor Duncan’s ”The Unwanted” suite is used to a dreamlike effect.
The film tells the story of Malvina van Stille (Amira Casar), an opera singer who is abducted by the diabolical Dr. Emmanuel Droz (Gottfried John) just before her marriage with composer Adolfo Blin (Cesar Sarachu). Malvina is taken to the doctor’s mansion in Azucena. He is a brain surgeon who wants to perform an unspeakable act on Malvina. Directed by the award-winning Quay Brothers (Institute Benjamenta) and executively produced by Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil, The Fisher King), THE PIANOTUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is a dark and highly original fairytale which has impressed festival audiences and critics all over the world. It was nominated to compete for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, where the film won two awards. Variety wrote that the film “impresses as a visually exquisite, rigorously intellectual” fable and New York Times defined it as a “idiosyncratic, highly original vision”.

Christopher Slaski is a British composer of film and concert music. Born in 1974, he was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge and at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was awarded the Eric Coates Prize. He continued his studies, specialising in music for film with Ennio Morricone and Jose Nieto. Amongst the films he has scored are Kevin Spacey’s BEYOND THE SEA, the Spanish comedy SEMAN, UNA HISTORIA DE AMOUR (nominated for Best Spanish Score of 2005 by the Spanish Film Music Critics Awards) and the drama CUADRILATERO, whose score was recorded by the Brodsky Quartet. Other work includes documentaries, BBC and ITV television drama, news and current affairs themes, commercials and computer games. Christopher has composed numerous concert works, including the “Frank Lloyd Wright Suite”, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. In February 2006 he was invited to join the International Jury at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France. Limtied 500 copies.

1. Malvina Sings I (0:42)
2. The Pianotuner of Earthquakes (3:56)
3. Love Theme (4:16)
4. Sexuality and Sensuality (3:18)
5. 1st Automaton (3:34)
6. 2nd Automaton: The Little Rowing Boat (0:34)
7. 3rd Automaton (0:54)
8. 4th Automaton I: The Little Woodcutter (0:52)
9. 4th Automaton II: Transformed (0:52)
10. 5th Automaton: The Crystal Glass Penis Machine (1:16)
11. Malvina Sings II (0:28)
12. Assumpta Attempts the Seduction of Felisberto (3:24)
13. The Forest Grotto (0:44)
14. Assumpta and Felisberto Enjoys the Sunset (0:40)
15. Malvina Mystery (1:14)
16. The Opera and the Earthquake (6:06)
17. Love Theme (2nd Version) (4:54)
18. The Boy: Theme (2:46)
19. The Boy: Episode (2:16)
20. The Girl: Prologue (3:43)
21. The Girl: Theme (3:36)
22. Malvina Sings III (0:28)