Nosferatu (Gothic ballet music only)

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1.	Prelude 04:32	buy track
2.	Act 1 Mina's Theme 05:40	buy track
3.	Spiders & Flies 03:47	buy track
4.	Renfield's Delirium 02:04	buy track
5.	Nosferatu Piano Theme 02:18	buy track
6.	Confronting His Demon 04:40	buy track
7.	Main Theme (Reprise) 00:27	buy track
8.	Act 2 Mina's Theme (Reprise) 03:30	buy track
9.	Mina's Anguish 02:45	buy track
10.	The Irrepressible Mr Exeter 06:36	buy track
11.	Nosferatu Piano Theme (Reprise) 01:41	buy track
12.	Main Theme (Reprise) 00:28	buy track
13.	Act 3 Intro 00:28	buy track
14.	Nosferatu String Quartet Theme 01:28	buy track
15.	Seduction 04:24	buy track
16.	Escape From Castle Dracula 02:39	buy track
17.	Sea Voyage 02:39	buy track
18.	Rats! Mina's Prayer. Plague! 04:20	buy track
19.	Finale 02:06	buy track
20.	Coda 00:39	buy track

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‘Nosferatu’ or ‘The Curious Case of Jonathan Harker’ A contemporary dance drama in 3 acts.
I’ve always been a bit of a balletomane – a quiet passion which led me to review ballet releases for ‘Classic CD’ magazine in the early ‘90s – but I had never entertained the idea of writing one. However, after creating a new soundtrack for a silent film in 2008, I was confident and keen to attempt something more ‘serious’. So, when Max ‘the macher’ Marchini invited me to join his new label, Dark Companion, in 2015 and record some of my older songs with an orchestra, I immediately offered to write a piece specially for them. I subsequently composed the 30 minute ‘A Grimm Fantasy For Orchestra’ and a string quartet, transcribing the parts I had recorded on a keyboard with the assistance and encouragement of a professional composer.
He subsequently wrote variations on a theme from my song ‘Nosferatu’ (one of my more theatrical pieces) for four-handed piano which gave me the idea that we might collaborate on a ballet, but the pandemic interfered with that and being an impatient fellow, I determined to write and record the entire ballet myself before time reduced me to a shadow of that debauched aristocrat.
So, here it is, the culmination of three months intense work which can be listened to as an album or - hopefully – played in a dark theatre while dancers enact the tragedy of a man who might have inspired Bram Stoker to pen his gothic novel and, unwittingly, beget a host of ungodly children of the night.
As the subtitle suggests, the ballet is centred not on the count but on his alleged victim, Jonathan Harker, whose fevered imagination recasts the aged aristocrat as a vampire. The events recounted in Bram Stoker’s gothic novel are now a fantasy experienced in Harker’s mind which makes this ballet fundamentally different from the rival ‘Dracula’ ballets (almost all of which use classical music and not an original score).

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released January 23, 2024

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Formerly managed by June Bolan, Paul has been spinning supernatural and historical-themed tales against a backdrop of gothic rock, psych-pop and baroque strings, earning him the sobriquet, ‘The Male Kate Bush' (attributed to former label mate Robyn Hitchcock) ... more

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