Art Zoyd - Faust

Faust is a new composition on a movie 70 years older. This 72-minute cycle composed and recorded in 1994-1995 was devised as a soundtrack to the 1926 silent movie by F.W. Murnau. Art Zoyd performed this music live to accompany screenings of the movie on a few occasions, but it stands on its own very well. It follows the general esthetics the group developed throughout the 1970s and 1980s: rhythmical, processional music with simple repetitive melodies and dark atmospheres. But during the 1990s, the group turned more and more to synthesizers and samplers, leaving acoustic instruments behind. Read More