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    Original score to the classic silent film, Nosferatu, composed by Jackson Del Rey.

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1.
Main Title/You Can’t Escape Destiny By Running Away 07:29
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2.
Land Of Phantoms 06:02
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3.
Blood! Your Precious Blood! 15:02
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4.
Coffins…coffins Filled With Earth 13:01
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Carniverous Plant (Nina’s Waltz) 04:20
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6.
Captain Of The Black Ship 12:54
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7.
Destiny Redux 11:04
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8.
I Too Have Been Saved 11:16
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9.
A Woman Pure In Heart 04:42
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NOSFERATU is Del Rey & The Sun King’s second installment in a planned set of four new soundtracks for classic films made during the silent era of motion pictures. Their first release was a radically re-worked (and surprisingly, highly popular) score for Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 classic film Battleship Potemkin.

Nosferatu, subtitled Eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror) is the first screen version of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Nosferatu was unofficially adapted from Stoker's novel, with the names of the characters changed in an effort to disguise the source.

In the case of Nosferatu, though, the ruse failed, and on the film's release Bram Stoker's widow sued, seeking the destruction of all prints. Fortunately, for the sake of posterity as well as anyone who just enjoys a well-made film, she did not achieve her goal, and Nosferatu survives today as one of the great silent classics.

Unlike “Battleship” where few modern scores exist, due to the popularity of the subject matter, there are many new scores, some vibrant and interesting, some unfortunately not so (note to reader: If you do attempt your own new score to Nosferatu, please please please don’t make it a Goth or Death Metal extravaganza…really, they DON’T work) but a seeming “gap” in artistic content seemed to be missing, because at it’s core, Nosferatu is in essence a love story.

To express this sentiment, Del Rey & The Sun Kings chose to blend classical instruments with of all things industrial sounds to help enhance the film's obvious theme of duality (light and dark/man and woman/man and monster/woman and monster etc…). And so as there are many “pretty” passages of music, there is indeed a healthy amount of dark and edgy material.

Nosferatu also pays homage to several of Del Rey’s favorite film composers, most notably Tangerine Dream, Popol Vue, Rachel Portman and Thomas Newman.

With a number of live performances planned and a built-in audience composed of (or is that decomposed of…) those who enjoy the death/glam/Goth lifestyle, not to mention the potential of midnight performance for actual vampires, Del Rey & The Sun King’s Nosferatu should have no problem building upon and surpassing the strong commercial showing of it’s predecessor Battleship Potemkin. From there, it’s two down and two to go.

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released December 31, 2007

Score composed by Jackson Del Rey.

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Del Rey & The Sun Kings La Quinta, California

Jackson Del Rey, original member of Savage Republic and 17 Pygmies gathered a few musicians in 2006 after a long hiatus, and created this critically acclaimed original score for Sergei Eisenstein's epic silent film Battleship Potemkin. True to his DIY roots, this project was recorded on an mBox with ProTools, with live overdubs. ... more

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