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H​Ä​XAN

by Matti Bye Ensemble

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is the beautiful digipak version in an edition of just 100 copies.

    Includes unlimited streaming of HÄXAN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Deluxe Limited Edition vintage Russian film can version
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is the listing for the over-the-top limited edition version of 52 copies. Each comes in well worn and distressed 80 year old Russian film cans, all with the original Cyrillic labeling and hand markings on them. The fronts are embellished by TRS with hand typed, cursive titles. The back has a hi-res printed image from the film itself. Inside the lid is a mirrored surface layered with silhouetted and circular hi-res prints of stills from the film revealing a fiery red surface underneath. Filling the box are circles cut from original, double sided, 150 year old hand written Catholic mass sheet music, alongside a hand printed, burnt, stamped and distressed credits insert, and a bloodied “malleus maleficarum”, or “hammer of witches”, in the form of modified vintage parts from a grand piano. A small clockmakers glass vial contains a blend of witchy herbs and tiny clock parts, and comes tied up with twine in a piece of raw linen fabric. The CD is nestled within, in a hand stamped windowed envelope with symbolic stampings on it.

    There is also the dramatic, 4 panel digipak CD version in an edition of 100 copies.

    Includes unlimited streaming of HÄXAN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about

This soundtrack to the cult 1926 silent Swedish film, HÄXAN, is from a live recording at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in 2010. It’s an appropriately moody and mysterious blend of real instrumentation (piano, violin, organ, glockenspiel, musical saw) and electronic treatments. Perfectly suited to this dark and twisted film, it will transport you to the magic and madness of the Medieval witch hunts.

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released April 1, 2022

HÄXAN - Soundtrack from a live recording from
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival in 2010.

Matti Bye - Piano and live electronics
Laura Naukkarinen (Lau Nau) - Voice and electronics
Lotta Johansson - Violin, electric violin and musical saw
Kristian Holmgren - Pumporgan

Music composed and performed by Matti Bye Ensemble

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Design by Colin Herrick
Time Released Sound 2022

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Time Released Sound, founded in 2011, is a lovingly hand made, limited edition release music label that is as much an art project as it is a musical outlet. Focusing on modern classical, ambient electronic and electroacoustic sounds, we produce visuals and packaging that are as uniquely beautiful as the music itself.

Time Sensitive Materials is our new sister label.
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