The soundtrack to Murnau's Nosferatu composed / improvised / played by the trioof Emmanuelle Parrenin, Quentin Rollet and Jérôme Lorichon. The book accompanying the CD contains four versions of the Nosferatu story by four French artists:
Marie-Pierre Brunel, Foolz,
Caroline Sury and Alexios Tjoyas.
The trio formed by Jérôme Lorichon (Buchla, trumpet, electronics, percussions), Emmanuelle Parrenin (hurry-gurdy, harp, voice, percussions) and Quentin Rollet (alto and sopranino saxophones, electronics) performed Nosferatu for the first time at La Cinémathèque Française on February 18, 2021.
In 2022, Potemkine Films asked the trio to record the music for the DVD/BluRay released to mark the film's 100th anniversary, but ultimately they were not allowed to modify the soundtrack.
This album, inserted in a 60-page illustrated book, is an edited version of the music so that it can be listened to as a complete musical journey.
The book comes with four different covers, randomly distributed.
A French folk singer, harpist and hurdy-gurdy player, Emmanuelle Parrenin (born 1949) is a discreet but essential figure on the French experimental folk scene since the late 1960s.
Quentin Rollet (born 1974) started playing the alto saxophone at the age of 11 and the sopranino saxophone at 37. After a few years spent unlearning the teaching of the conservatory, he devoted himself solely to free improvisation. This led him to play on record or on stage with groups as varied as
Nurse With Wound, Prohibition, The Red Krayola, Mendelson,
David Grubbs, Herman Dune,
Akosh S. Unit,
Thierry Müller, Rubin Steiner,
eRikm,
Jac Berrocal,
Andrew Liles, Bästard, Ulan Bator,
Costes,
Red,
Melmac, Dragibus, Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws,
Jérôme Lorichon,
Charlie O, Dan-Charles Dahan, Zsolt Söres, Pal Toth, Jean-Noël Cognard, Jean-Pierre Barja, Rivkah, Benoît de Villeneuve...... He is a member of
Pointe du Lac, and the co-founder of the labels
Rectangle (with
Noël Akchoté),
reQords and
Bisou Records.
Jérôme Lorichon, multi-instrumentalist and improviser, is a founding member of Purr and The Berg Sans Nipple. Percussionist of Zombie Zombie, bassist/keyboardist/trumpet player of Don Nino, he played with Erik Minkkinen (with whom he founded Capricorne Band and Antilles in trio with
Lionel Fernandez),
Quentin Rollet,
Ghédalia Tazartès, Yeti Lane, Heliogabale, Orval Carlos Sibelius, My Name Is Nobody...
