Stearica - Golem 202020 [LP]

Monotreme Records

£28.78

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: MONO170VNL
Barcode: 5060464100574
Release Date: 26th March 2021
Genre: Post Rock/Experimental

The album will be available on CD and a pressing of 150 LPs (75 clear red and 75 clear green vinyl with digital download card, randomly picked). LPs are for Indies only and on firm sale / no returns. Golem 202020 is a 10-track recording synthesis curated from the full soundtrack of the classic silent horror film ‘Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam’ created by the Italian avant/post/progressive rock band STEARICA. The soundtrack was originally commissioned by The Italian National Museum of Cinema and the Traffic Free Festival and was performed in the museum’s cinema as a live soundtrack to the film as part of the MITO/Torino-Milano International Music Festival, in September, 2011. In 2013, the band performed the live soundtrack at the Ravenna Nightmare International Festival - the main horror and fantastic film festival in Italy - and the Rimusicazioni Film Festival in Bolzano, winning the Audience Award. The ten tracks, which cover the five chapters into which the film is divided, were recorded live in 2014 during a studio session organized to immortalize the work, with further embellishments added in 2019 while still maintaining the original arrangement. To celebrate the centenary of the film, which was first screened in the theater on October 29th, 1920, the penultimate album track, ‘In Flames’, was released on 26 November 2020, to be followed by the full album release in March. STEARICA plan to soundtrack the film live in venues and festivals around the UK / Europe in 2021/2022. Press so far: “breathtaking…a formidable piece of work” Prog Magazine // “lovely moments of stealth and lush texture” The Wire //

Tracklisting 1. The Stars Reveal 2. How He Came Into The World 3. The Great Spell 4. The Shem 5. A Strange Servant 6. The Rose Festival – part 1 7. The Rose Festival – part 2 8. Rejoyce Ye, Ye! 9. In Flames 10. Der Golem