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Shindig 106 (Aug 2020) 4*** review one of the great soundtracks back on vinyl

Munster Records bring us Macbeth, the staggering soundtrack by the English band Third Ear Band for a Roman Polanskis film, recorded and produced in 1971. The resulting 44 minutes of imaginative sounds, divided in 16 outstanding pieces, is an astonishing example of an archaic, twisted, abstract psychedelia, rooted on medieval and classical textures. . The themes presented on the film were composed in an improvised manner while watching black and white excerpts of the oeuvre. The music, recorded in six weeks at George Martins Air Studios, in July 1971, has the same unconventional and quite unique dimension as the film itself. It is an auteur music for an auteur film.