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Zdenek Liska Mala Morska Vila (The Little Mermaid) Black Vinyl Edition

Finders Keepers | Item No: 778513
Vinyl LP | 1976 / UK – Reissue | New
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Item Description
Standard black vinyl edition.

The original orchestral/electronic score from Karel Kachyna’s 1976 Czech film adaptation of Hans C. Anderson’s The Little Mermaid, composed by Zdenek Liska (The Cremator / Fruits of Paradise) featuring Lenka Korinkova.

Liska’s legacy in the history of European cinema is huge in volume but relatively modest in it’s celebrity. Having already composed nine scores for Kachyna’s films to add to his 1976 filmography of 150 completed soundtracks.

Back in 2005, five years before Finders Keepers Records released Zdenek Liška’s soundtrack to Malá morská víla for the first time, folklore and fairy tale fanatics around the globe celebrated the 200 year anniversary of the birth of one of the world’s most celebrated children’s authors of the published era. This Danish born writer’s stories have been translated into over 150 languages and have continued to enchant and inspire children and adults, arts and crafts, film and theatre, providing a creative binding substance in modern society’s social fibre. With a life story that entwines equal measures of tragedy, mystery, intensity and majesty to that of his own written work, Hans Christian Andersen’s early years balancing contradictory roles as a weaver’s apprentice, a soprano singer, a fledgling poet and an abused grammar school pupil with speculative links to the monarchy, manifested themselves in his written world of fantasy and fiction. His running themes of mutation, metamorphosis, rebirth, prejudice and class distinction are none more prevalent than in what are perhaps his two best known tales The Ugly Duckling, first published 11th November 1843, and the bittersweet surrealist tale of The Little Mermaid, printed in the third booklet of the first volume of Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn (Tales, Told For Children) in 1837.

One of the most idiosyncratic and haunting undiscovered scores in the annals of European cinematic history, Liska’s forward thinking score has all the hallmarks of a Broadcast record, some 20 years before the band first committed sound to vinyl..

Beautifully remastered from the original mastertapes with the full cooperation of the seminal Barrandov studios in Prague and available once again since the original 2011 pressing, Finders Keepers Records are proud to present a newly updated version of this genuine first-ever as part of our 15th birthday celebratory retrospective represses.
Item Details
Item No: 778513
Artist: Zdenek Liska
Title: Mala Morska Vila (The Little Mermaid) Black Vinyl Edition
Label: Finders Keepers
Catalog No: FKR040LPX
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: UK – Reissue
Release Date: 1976
Genre: Soundtracks
Style: Movies | TV
Available since: 2020-11-13
Condition: New
Price: 18,99 €
Weight: 250g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Mala Morska Vila
A2 Witches Firewall
A3 Pearls From The Deep
A4 King Of The Ocean
A5 The Pendant/The Little Mermaid (Theme)
A6 The Song Of The Siren (Theme)
A7 The Sixth Sister
A8 Stature Of Salt 1
A9 Aquatic Babicka (Theme)
A10 In Safe Hands
A11 Aquatic Babicka (Song)
A12 The Black Sea
B1 Stature Of Salt 2
B2 Carodejnice's Castle
B3 The Song Of The Siren (Song)
B4 Prince Of The Southern Empire
B5 Games/Echoes
B6 The Kiss
B7 Ascension To Fireworks
B8 Bird In A Cage
B9 The Voice
B10 Behind The Rock
B11 Sucken Dagger/The Little Mermaid (Song)
B12 The Pendant
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