Art Zoyd - Häxan

Häxan is a soundtrack for a silent movie made in 1921 by B. Christensen. Art Zoyd's fascination with classic horror movies from the 1920s began with Faust (on the film by F.W. Murnau), a soundtrack released in 1996. A year later, they took the same ingredients and produced an album a notch above. The use of synthetic keyboards and samplers is better integrated and feels less erroneous to the fan of the band's early all-acoustic albums. While Faust was a continuous suite of pieces alternately written by founding members Gérard Hourbette and Thierry Zaboïtzeff, Häxan can be split in two independent parts. Read More