Music for the 100 years of ‘Nosferatu’ in the Filmoteca de Murcia

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On December 9 and 10, Los Amigos de los Animales will record a double album in a show with seven musicians on stage

After success at the Murcia European Fantastic Film Festival, Brasov Dracula Film Festival in Romania and the National Film Library (Cine Doré) in Madrid, the regional band Los Amigos de los Animales returns to tune instruments to inspire lovers of the true vampire to charm. The Regional Film Library will host the audiovisual show ‘Nosferatu: a 2022 Symphony’ on December 9 and 10, a project that combines melancholy, sadness, terror and love that the original film broadcasts with a quadraphonic rock system. A chance to enjoy the screening of the 1922 FW Murnau movie with live music from Los Amigos de los Animales. Both sessions will be recorded for the release of a double album, according to the organization of the Sombra European Fantastic Film Festival of Murcia.

The orchestra will consist of seven musicians on stage who will play up to 23 instruments throughout the film, “the most expansive and rich in nuances used to date”. ‘Nosferatu’, a work of German Expressionism, is a hundred years old and to put music on it will use a quadraphonic sound system that will sound from the four corners of the room, creating a “spectacular” immersive experience.

The Friends of the Animals will give each of the attendees a download code containing four of the songs that make up the soundtrack, which will play throughout the show and later appear on the album ‘Nosferatu: a 2022 Symphony’.

Los Amigos de los Animales is a musical collective founded in Murcia in the 1980s, made up of several musicians who will become members of leading national bands (Second, Schwarz, Ross), “a krautrock, industrial and other dream team become”. cinematographic and experimental basics”, the parts indicate in a statement.

For this show at the Regional Film Library, the band plunged into the darkness that implies the creation and performance of the soundtrack of ‘Nosferatu’, a work in constant evolution, based on different movements and transmitted to the audience in quadraphonic sound. This event, during its 2022 tour, has already visited the Murcia European Fantastic Film Festival, the Brasov Dracula Film Festival in Romania and the National Film Library (Cine Doré) in Madrid and coincides with the film’s centenary, marking all the intensity is transmitted the melancholy, sadness, fear and love that the original tape exudes. On this occasion, an attempt has been made to maximize the sound experience, as a counterpoint to the original silent film, by generating a carefully prepared quadraphonic experience through its own digital system, capable of guiding the audience through the various passages of the film. transport. . Multitude of unique sensations. Tickets are for sale via https://bacantix.com/entradas/?id=FilmotecaMurcia and at the box office of the Regional Film Library.

Source: La Verdad

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