Various Artists - El Topo Original Soundtrack

The hallucinatory soundtrack to the ultimate "Midnight Movie"

Film broke new ground with its psychedelic and grotesque imagery

180-gram vinyl mastered from the original analog stereo tapes

Reissued for the first time on LP featuring original gatefold cover and four-page booklet with film stills

Championed by everybody from John Lennon to Peter Gabriel and decried by "Establishment" critics ranging from Vincent Canby to Gene Siskel, "El Topo" remains one of the most controversial movies ever made. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre, blood-soaked blend of spaghetti Western, druggy surrealism, Christian allegory, Zen Buddhist themes and avant-garde sensibilities gave rise to the entire "Midnight Movie" counterculture phenomenon of the early '70s and forever changed the way adventurous audiences viewed film. Or, for that matter, heard film; for no soundtrack, before or since, has embraced so many styles in its pursuit of spiritual and artistic goals. Atonal, Tibetan Buddhist thighbone trumpets clash with beautiful, even sentimental, chamber orchestra pieces alongside pan flute rhapsodies, brass bands and parlor jazz; that Jodorowsky himself composed the score after, no doubt, intently studying the work of Morricone — is almost as impressive an artistic achievement as the film itself.

Now, Real Gone Music, in partnership with ABKCO Music & Records, is issuing this one-of-a-kind soundtrack album on LP for the first time since the original release produced by Allan Steckler for Apple Records back in 1971. What's more, the vinyl release will replicate the gatefold packaging of the LP and include the four-page booklet boasting some of the film's hallucinogenic imagery that came with the original release. Produced for reissue by ABKCO's in-house Engineer Teri Landi and Mick Gochanour, with lacquer cutting by Carl Rowatti at Trutone Mastering from the original 16-track analog tapes and a 180-gram vinyl pressing, Real Gone/ABKCO's release of El Topo on LP fully captures Jodorowsky's singular sonic vision.

 

 

1. Burial of The First Toy

2. Under The Earth

3. The Pigs Monastery

4. The Holy Beggars

5. Death Is Birth

6. Mexican Curios

7. Living Water

8. Vals Fantasma

9. The Soul Born In The Blood

10. Topo Triste

11. The Sugar Gods

12. Flowers Born In The Mud

13. The Hell Of The Prostituted Angels

14. March Of The Eyes In The Triangles

15. The Pain Of Honey

16. 300 Rabbits

17. Knowledge Through Music

18. The First Flower After The Flood

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