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01. Karl Bartos - Prologue
02. Karl Bartos - Scary Memories
03. Karl Bartos - Atonal Floating
04. Karl Bartos - Full Of Life
05. Karl Bartos - In The Town Hall
06. Karl Bartos - At The Funfair
07. Karl Bartos - A Mysterious Crime
08. Karl Bartos - At The Funfair 2
09. Karl Bartos - The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
10. Karl Bartos - Jane's Theme
11. Karl Bartos - March Grotesque 2
12. Karl Bartos - Jane's Theme 2
13. Karl Bartos - Shadows
14. Karl Bartos - Tragic Message
15. Karl Bartos - Suspicion
16. Karl Bartos - Tragic Message 2
17. Karl Bartos - The Plan
18. Karl Bartos - A Dark Figure
19. Karl Bartos - Caligari's Theme
20. Karl Bartos - Arrest Of The Suspect
21. Karl Bartos - Caligari's Theme 2
22. Karl Bartos - Worried Jane
23. Karl Bartos - Interrogation
24. Karl Bartos - Jane's Fear
25. Karl Bartos - Francis's Observation
26. Karl Bartos - Cesare's Attack And Escape
27. Karl Bartos - Safe And Sound
28. Karl Bartos - Francis At A Loss
29. Karl Bartos - Caligari's Deception
30. Karl Bartos - Lunatic Asylum
31. Karl Bartos - In Search Of The Truth
32. Karl Bartos - Out In The Field
33. Karl Bartos - The Director Rants And Rages
34. Karl Bartos - Scary Memories 2
35. Karl Bartos - Who's Mad Here?
36. Karl Bartos - Francis Rants And Rages
37. Karl Bartos - Epilogue
ARTIST
TITLE
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BB 400CD BB 400CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/15/2024

Narrative film music and sound design for Robert Wiene's classic 1920 psychological thriller. Digitally restored in 4K by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation. Musician and writer Karl Bartos has long been admirer of Weimar-era culture. During his time in Kraftwerk, he helped create the stunning track Metropolis, directly inspired by a band viewing of the classic 1927 Fritz Lang film of the same name. The original orchestral music composed for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Giuseppe Becce had long been lost and in 2005, after watching the film, Bartos imagined what it would be like to create an entirely new one in the 21st Century in his home studios in Hamburg. Now with crystal clear images, digitally restored by the Friedrich-Wilhelm Murnau-Foundation, the film is visually the best quality it has ever been, and now, with Bartos' soundtrack, there is impressive sound to go with the haunting vision. For the task, Bartos ransacked his own library of musical compositions, recreating pieces he had written as a young classical musician in his pre-Kraftwerk days whilst creating new sounds, melodies and textures. The intention was not simply to write a film score per se. This was to be an immersive listening experience with special sound effects to match the action as the listener enters the film as both spectator and participant. A creaking door, footsteps on gravel, the turning of pages in a ledger, a half-heard fragment of dialogue are seamlessly synchronized to the action on screen. The listener can hear melodies that lie within the tradition of the Baroque Age of Bach, the early Romanticism of Mozart, the dissonance of Schoenberg, the unsettling metric play of Stravinsky and the harshly dramatic repetitions of Philip Glass. From outside of the classical tradition there is the folklorist bricolage of the fairground barrel organ tempered playfully by some psychedelic backwards musique concrete along with some melodies which would not have been out of place on a Kraftwerk album from the classic era. All the time the listener is on a journey, sounds move in and out, music weaves and entwines, the soundscape is immersive and intoxicatingly rich.