Death And Vanilla The Tenant

Following the deluxe reissue of ‘Vampyr’ last year comes Death And Vanilla’s unreleased live score of ‘The Tenant' (1976 - directed by Roman Polanski and based on the novel Le Locataire by Roland Topor.) Originally scored by Philippe Sarde, this release sees Death And Vanilla reimagine the film’s soundtrack four decades on for a new audience. The haunting instrumental is a foreboding piece of dark and cinematic avant-garde music that’s alienated, lonely and melancholic. Moments of hallucination and delusion mirror the lead character Trelovsky.

Recorded in 2015 at Cinemascore festival in Spain alongside a two-hour performance and screening of psychological thriller ‘The Tenant’. With the band at their most minimal, the accomplished musicians once again bring the dark narrative to life with their expansive and ethereal noir sound. The recording features them as a trio - Marleen Nilsson (Farfisa Compact), Anders Hansson (Hagstrom Kent, Roland SP-404 and Technics SL-1200) and Magnus Bodin (Moog Prodigy and Musser M55).

1. Loctaire - intro
2. Zy And Choule
3. Church Music
4. Walls Have Teeth
5. Labyrinthe
6. Mouvement Panique
7. Free Design Kung-Fu
8. ”Do You Have Any Trouble With Your Neighbours?”
9. ”If You Cut Off My Head, What Do I Say? Me And My Head Or Me And My Body?”
10. Dioz Delirium
11. Everything Is Always Happening
12. Solitaire
13. The Bouncing Head
14. Music Box - outro