DESCRIPTION:
1. Titles: A Song Of Two Humans 0:00
2. Woman Of The City 2:49
3. The Waiting 5:01
4. Meeting By The Swamp 7:23
5. Come To The City 10:25
6. The Skeem 12:36
7. Couldn't She Get Drowned? 13:46
8. Trip To The City 21:35
9. The City 23:16
10. Where's My Love? 25:31
11. At The Barbers' 27:48
12. At The Photographers' 31:36
13. Casino Swing 35:08
14. Pig Chase 35:52
15. Peasant Dance 37:42
16. 3 Angels Song 40:17
17. A New Moon 41:51
18. The Storm 42:35
19. The Gathering Of The Men 47:07
20. The Search 48:59
21. The Return 54:22
22. Sunrise 55:12
23. Coda: A Song Of Two Humans 55:49
24. Giving Up The Hero (Vocals -- Laurence Bourgeois) 56:19
25. Untitled (Trumpet -- Bart Maris) 1:01:07


For the project Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Zita Swoon made a new score for the first film German combat pilot and director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau made in the U.S. in 1927. The script by Carl Mayer is based on a story by Herman Sudermann which a man decides to kill his wife at the request of his mistress, only to fall in love with her again. Sunrise is widely regarded as a classic of the silent movie genre.

For the score, Zita Swoon was inspired by the theme of the countryside's superiority over the decadence of the new world, the images of the big city and the naivety of the story.

The instrumental and vocal songs, which evoke the emotions of the film, were primarily composed for a live show. At this event, the artists where seated beneath the screen, lit by faint blue light while they performed the score.

A few months later, in 1997, the band recorded the live album Music inspired by Sunrise, a film by F.W. Murnau.

According to Stef Kamil Carlens, this project shed new light on the band, because it released them from the format of the pop song and introduced them to a musical universe with endless possibilities.

Band:

Stef Kamil Carlens (guitar, melodica, vocal)
Aarich Jespers (drum)
Tom Pintens (guitar, piano)
Tomas De Smet (electric bass, contrabass)
Benjamin Boutreur (saxophone)
Klaas Janszoons (violin)
Piet Jorens (percussion)

Artwork:
Aarich and Jelle Jespers

Photography:
Aarich Jespers, Maarten Vanden Abeele

Source: zitaswoongroup.be, discogs.com

Label: Play It Again Sam Records ‎-- BIAS 341 CD