As our maiden voyage into an expansive vat of unreleased music by Polish composer Andrzej Korzynski, Finders Keepers Records originally presented his previously unreleased electro/ orchestral/experimental score for Andrzej Zulawski’s surrealist 80s horror classic, Possession in 2012. These 25 cues were written and recorded exclusively for the 1981 award-winning film starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neil, but due to the progressive, stark and modernist nature of the finished film less than half of them made it on to the actual director’s cut – leaving many ofthe tracks on this spackage totally unheard outside of Korzynski’s studio.

The intended Possession score in its entirety marks an important axis in Korzynski’s career where his various musical disciplines overlap. In one respect it marks his first forays into to synth driven electronics and disco drum machines, while other tracks epitomise the well honed techniques used in previous Zulawski scores, such as Third Part Of The Night and The Devil, which rely on his inimitable orchestral arrangements and combination of clavinet, Rhodes, piano and electric guitar.

Available once again on black 12” vinyl for the fist time since its original release some 11 years ago, our ongoing commitment to the important restoration of Korzynski’s music aims to shed new light on the seldom manufactured productions of the composer whose vast cinematic catalogue warrants overdue global status alongside other golden era Eastern European composers such as Kryzstof Komeda, Jan Hammer and Zdenek Liska – not to mention the best of the French and Italian soundtrackers, such as Roubaix, Vannier and Nicolai. Duplicated and carefully remastered directly from Korzynski’s original master tapes

TRACK LISTING

1. The Night The Screaming Stops (Opening Titles)
2. Opętanie 1
3. Meeting With A Pink Tie
4. Opętanie 2
5. Anna Rewards Mark
6. Possession - Orchestral Theme 1
7. Kreuzberg 1
8. Opętanie 3
9. Mark Looks In The Fridge
10. Heinrick’s Demise
11. Opętanie 4
12. Possession - Orchestral Theme 2
13. Blue Ford B-AZ6
14. Helen Has Green Eyes
15. Opętanie 5
16. Bloody Embrace
17. Kreuzberg 2
18. Detective’s Desserts
19. Kreuzberg 3
20. Kreuzberg 4
21. The Night The Screaming Tops (Tempo)
22. Mark Formulates A Plan
23. Mark Sees Everything
24. Closely Observered Anna
25. Opętanie 6
26. What Is It?
27. The Man With The Pink Socks

Back due to unprecedented demand and available for the first time since the original 2012 pressing, Finders Keepers Records is proud to once again present these twenty-two rare and unreleased vintage tracks from the secret vaults of one of the most enigmatic composers in 60s/70s/80s European cinema, Andrzej Korzynski.

Originally recorded in the best studios in Poland, Italy and France for experimental film, political allegories, lost television shows, sound libraries and radio – these tracks have been hidden behind the Iron Curtain on lost master tapes and film reels until now! Secret Enigma represents the first ever dedicated anthology of this great composer’s work. Originally released exactly thirty years ago In artistic cinema Andrzej Korzynski’s unique experiments with jazz, pop, rock, orchestral and electronic music make his name synonymous with the most praised (Andrzej Wajda) and the most provocative (Andrzej Zuławski) Polish filmmakers (counting many more in between).

As an early patron of the Polish New Wave and a key exponent of the development of conceptual Polish pop music his expansive portfolio has remained commercially unreleased and untravelled (like many of the original socialist era Polish made films) and has yet to find its deserved place next to the work of Ennio Morricone, François de Roubaix and John Barry.

Now enhanced by a renewed interest in vintage art house film and a subculture of open minded music collectors many Easter European artists, such as Krzysztof Komeda (Poland), Zdenek Liška (Czechoslovakia) and now Andrzej Korzynski, have finally begun to earn their place alongside their Central European peers. For lovers of film music and experimental pop, this debut anthology and appraisal of Korzynski’s work is long overdue, and stylistically, probably never more relevant.

TRACK LISTING

1. Trying To Catch A Fly
2. Le Grabuge (Pop Theme)
3. Agent No.1 From Agent No.1
4. Opętanie 5 From Possession
5. Saved From Oblivion
6. Tajemnica Enigmy
7. W Instytucie
8. Karawana
9. The Dziekanka Students’ Hostel - Dance
10. Landscape
11. Losy (Mid-Beat Theme)
12. Third Part Of The Night (Main Theme)
13. Diabeł
14. La Grabuge (Orchestral Pop Theme)
15. Roza Roza (featuring Arp Life)
16. Bossa Nova (featuring Ewa Wanat)
17. The Dziekanka Students’ Hostel - Rock Group
18. Łapanka
19. Le Grabuge (Orchestral Theme)
20. Losy (Mid-Guitar Theme)
21. Trying To Catch A Fly (Reprise)
22. Wszystko Na Sprzedaż Taniec

As one of the most triumphant and beguiling directorial debut features to emerge from the fruitful Polish New Wave, Andrzej Zulawski’s 1971 film Third Part Of The Night not only earned the 30 year old filmmaker a place next to other radical Polish directors such as Polanski, Skolimowski and Has, but also galvanised a creative bond with long running collaborator and composer Andrzej Korzynski, providing fans of foreign abstract/suspense cinema with a potent creative fusion to match those of Polanki/Komeda, Fellini/Rota and Argento/Goblin, amongst others.

Quite simply one of the heaviest psych rock film soundtracks of all time Andrzej Korzynski’s short and unreleased score matched the blueprint that adorned the drawing boards of conceptual French jazz orch rock composers like Jean-Claude Vannier, Francois De Roubaix and Alain Gourageur, creating a soundtrack that unknowingly begs comparison to Masahiko Satô’s Belladonna Of Sadness and Billy Green’s Stone.

As one of the first progressive pop writers to come out of the vibrant (but carefully scrutinised) Polish beat scene with his bands Ricecar and later Arplife (and composing for national heroes such as Czeslaw Niemen, Niebiesko-Czarni and Test) Korzynski’s growing passion for conceptual rock and jazz music soon lead to instrumental composition and soundtrack scores. His cinematic debuts scoring two consecutive transitional new wave films for Andrzej Wajda (in collaboration with the radical Polski pop groups Trubadurzy and Grupa ABC) also provided Korzynski with another significant cinematic muse in that of the stunning actress Malgorzata Braunek with whom they would both eventually achieve their finest performances under the direction of the ravenous first timer Zulawski.

Third Part Of The Night (1971) perhaps epitomises that triangular on-screen unison in its vibrant youth and feeds it through a hallucinogenic mangle finding astonishing beauty (within a repulsive synopsis) against a bleak and shattered backdrop and accompanied by progressive, psychedelic orchestral rock music - elements which would intensify for all three creatives with the next film, Diabel, which was banned by the Polish government the following year until 1988. Third Part Of The Night also marks the public unison of Zulawski and Braunek whose later private romantic relationship is said to form the basis for another defining Zulawski/Korzynski defining endeavour with the 1981 film Possession exactly a decade later, encapsulating a period that bequeaths a previously unopened vault of some of the composers finest and most inspired sonic adventures.

It has been exactly ten years since Finders Keepers first intrepidly entered Andrzej Korzynski’s cavernous musical vault, but it is only today that they are able to proudly announce the safe retrieval of what is often considered the true heavy psych holy grail of the Polish composer’s mind-bending oeuvre.

By cruel coincidence, this welcome event has sadly come during the same year as the composer’s tragic passing. However, in true Korzynski style, alongside his previous Finders Keepers releases, the legacy he has left behind in this one final lost soundtrack project alone has come with musical riches beyond anyone’s wildest expectations.

The comprehensive elusive archive of the deeply psychedelic soundtrack to Andrzej Zuławski’s forbidden film ‘Diabeł’ (The Devil) is perhaps the most detailed dossier one could wish to find - including audio sketches, rejected proposals and pre-butchered variations that play out like an intense and veritable creative conversation between the director and the maestro, both of whom are widely recognised as true mavericks of socialist-era Poland’s fertile artistic landscape.

This 7” record is more than just a companion piece, and it is far from a selection of the (non-existent) poppy title themes to promote a full featurelength album. This standalone release is wholly unique in its own right, giving Finders Keepers listeners a final Access All Areas snoop into the mind of one of the pillars of our alternative musical community.

As those familiar with Zuławski and Korzynski’s long-running relationship will understand (a methodology best exemplified in the schizoid soundtrack to the film ‘Possession’), their exchanges were deeply nuanced and often complicated, with lots of artistic ‘tennis’ thrown into the mix. The key plot in this behind-the-scenes fable is that after delivering his original off-kilter psychedelic score to the director, maestro Korzynski was asked to make the music “totally unique, like something from another planet,” to which Korzynski took his tapes, pulled down the vari-speed to a guttural grind and continued to recompose over the top using avant-garde electro-acoustic techniques while deploying psychedelic skills of guitarist Winicjusz Chróst.

This record proudly boasts Korzynski’s original uptempo awkward psychedelic pop music prior to the doom laden growls that make the official film’s soundtrack a true Goliath of Eastern European soundtrack composition. Which, when recontextualised, will stand as a veritable facemelter for stoner rock fans.

TRACK LISTING

The Devil Tapes Part One
The Devil Tapes Part Two

Sourced from the elusive original master tapes, with the full cooperation of the CeTA archives in Warsaw, this grinding psych rock score finally emerges on vinyl 50 years after the film’s original theatrical release.

One of the last groundbreaking releases from Poland’s prime progressive provocateurs Andrzej Zuławski and Andrzej Korzynski to finally see the light of day.

These unearthed recordings represent the crowning glory of the lifelong unison of Maestro Andrzej Zuławski and filmmaker Andrzej Korzynski, two genuine mavericks of Polish experimental cinema who challenged artistic and societal norms, on both sides of a politically restricted regime and on an international artistic stage, without compromise.

Friends since childhood, Korzynski and Zuławski may have become divided by limelight and geography (Zuławski the intrepid emigre), but they remained united in their kaleidoscopic creative vision, resulting in a fractured stream of troublesome and mind-bending golden era collaborations such as ‘Possession’, ‘The Silver Globe’, and ‘Third Part Of The Night’. This longawaited liberation of the psychedelic masterpiece known as ‘Diabeł’ finally completes the duo’s full vista with what many consider the most vital piece of the prism.

TRACK LISTING

The Devil
Freedom For A Promise
War-Torn Wasteland
Wretched Woodland
Wedding Dance Macabre
A Mute Reunion
The Devil Fits - God In His Youth
Through The Door - Theador
Your Father Is Dead Young Lord (Be Cursed)
Broken Boudoir
Theador And The Rifles
The Bordel
Mother
Daughter Of The Sin
Zakonnica
Rope Him To The Horse
Around You Is A Void Circle Save For The Stinking Corpses
Understand Nothing
No Blackberries In Winter
Cancel The Evil Gently
Mother Snake
The Fiery Sword
The Duel
Not The Horse
The Quill - What’s Not Written Does Not Exist
The World Is Beautiful (Climb The Tree)
Theador Go Back To God
The Black Dog