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1.	Myron Schaeffer - The Mask - Original Score : SEQUENCE 1 06:56	info	buy track
2.	Myron Schaeffer - The Mask - Original Score : SEQUENCE 2 05:43	info	buy track
3.	Myron Schaeffer - The Mask - Original Score : SEQUENCE 3 06:18	info	buy track
4.	LARVA - The Mask - Live Re-Score : INTRO / PUT THE MASK ON NOW 01:26	info	buy track
5.	LARVA - The Mask - Live Re-Score : EGO 05:42	info	buy track
6.	LARVA - The Mask - Live Re-Score : ID 05:29	info	buy track
7.	LARVA - The Mask - Live Re-Score : ANIMA / EYES OF HELL 10:54	info	buy track

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THE MASK (aka Eyes of Hell) is a cult psychological suspense film from 1961 - both Canada's first "horror" film, and it's first 3D motion picture.

This edition of the soundtrack features Myron Schaeffer's original music for The Mask's hallucinatory 3-D sequences for the very first time on any format, as well as a new live score composed by the group LARVA.

Schaeffer was appointed first director of Toronto's Electronic Music Studio in 1959, and his visceral electroacoustic sound collages for The Mask were billed as having been recorded in ELECTRO MAGIC SOUND. This unique process is still shrouded in mystery. However, the results are highly reminiscent of Louis & Bebe Barron's groundbreaking soundtrack to FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), just four years earlier.

Inspired by the primal screech and skronk of Schaeffer's pioneering music, LARVA set out to re-score film's bizarre 3D nightmares using only basic sound sources and effects - oscillators, treated guitar, analogue synths, theremin, old-skool tape echo/spring reverb and live foley sound effects. The new score was premiered at Flatpack Film Festival in 2013 and toured a number of other festivals before being recorded live onto ½" tape.

Ondes Positives are also thrilled to announce that this first-ever release of The Mask soundtrack coincides with the restoration and re-release of the original cult movie. Produced by the 3-D Film Archive in association with Kino Lorber, it has been restored using the best remaining 35mm elements to create a 2K polarized 3D print which premiered at Toronto Int'l Film Festival in Sept 2015, to be available in selected theatres and on Blu Ray & DVD by the end of the year.

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released December 4, 2015

ALBUM CREDITS:

THE MASK - ORIGINAL SCORE (1961)
Composed & Performed by Myron Schaeffer
Recorded in Electro Magic Sound
at UTEMS (University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio)
Performed on The Hamograph
Re-Mastered by Michael Valentine West
Licensed by The 3-D Film Archive

Please Note: The Mask's original score has been mastered from multiple available sources, though this did not include the 2015 restoration which was completed after this record was already in production.

THE MASK - LIVE RE-SCORE (2013)
Written & Performed by LARVA
Nick Sales & Scott Johannsson
Recorded Live to Tape at Solatron Studios
09/10/13
Recorded & Mixed by Matt Eaton

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