Ergo Phizmiz & Friends - The Faust Cycle
Ergo Phizmiz & Friends - The Faust Cycle Singer: Ergo Phizmiz & Friends
Title: The Faust Cycle
Label: Headphonica ‎– HPCD073
Type: 5 x File, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: Germany
Date of released: 2010
Category: Electronic, Non-Music, Pop, Classical, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen
Style: Classical, Abstract, Comedy, Experimental, Parody, Radioplay
Size MP3 zip: 1464 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1465 mb
Rating: 4.4✭
Format: MP3 AHX MIDI MPC VQF AIFF FLAC AC3 FLAC

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Chunk 1 2:53:26
"Divination" & "Dick & Liz Expound”
1a 00:00 – 01:38
Featuring [Little Octet For Assorted Tubes & Cones] – James Nye
“The Legend Of George Scrape”
1b 01:40 – 02:41
Voice Actor [Ventriloquist] – Zenith PittsWritten-By [George Scrape Story Devised With] – James Nye, Martha Moopette
“From The Toilet Of Despair”
1c 02:42 – End
Music By [Improvised] – Ergo Phizmiz, James Nye
Chunk 2 2:51:35
“Culinary Philosophy”
2a 00:00 – 00:52
Music By [Additional] – James Nye, Margita Zalite
2b 00:52 – 00:58
Featuring [Little Octet For Assorted Tubes & Cones] – James Nye
2c 00:58 – 01:18
Featuring [An Evening In Hell], Composed By [Piano Work], Piano, Producer [Piano Work] – James Nye
“Operatic Laughter”
2d 01:18 – 01:46
Music By [Additional] – Margita Zalite
2e 01:47 – 02:16
Voice Actor [Dr Faustus Actor] – Pete UmVoice Actor [Eloise] – Margita Zalite
2f 02:16 – End
Cello [Improvisation], Electronics [Improvisation] – Bela Emerson
Chunk 3 2:52:53
3a 00:00 – 00:01
Featuring [An Evening In Hell] – James Nye
3b 0:01 – 00:26
Featuring [Hell Kebabs], Composed By [Electroacoustic Work], Performer [Electroacoustic Work], Producer [Electroacoustic Work] – Angela Valid
“Gretchen”
3c 00:26 – 00:52
Cello [Improvisation], Electronics [Improvisation] – Bela EmersonTrumpet – Mark Upton Written-By [Text Developed With] – Martha Moopette
“Chronicles Of The Suspicious Gentleman”
3d 00:52 – 01:14
Composed By [Madiana], Performer [Madiana] – Aaron IslambPerformer [Fever] – Margita Zalite
"Helen"
3e 01:14 – 01:45
Featuring [Little Octet For Assorted Tubes & Cones] – James NyeVocals [Additional] – Margita Zalite
3f 01:44 – 02:00
Edited By [Recordings Of “the Faust Cycle” Workshops At Quay Arts Podcasts] – Simon Perry Other [Workshops Facilitated With] – James Nye
“Kinetoscopes & Dung”
3g 02:00 – End
Effects [Foley Created With] – The Travelling MongooseFeaturing [An Evening In Hell] – James NyeViolin [Solo Improvised] – Amie WillingaleWritten-By [Interpretations Of Erik Satie’s “le Tango Perpetuel” Created With] – James Nye
Chunk 4 2:36:07
“The Bird Machines”
4a 00:00 – 01:30
Featuring [Little Octet For Assorted Tubes & Cones] – James Nye
“The Abduction Of The Object”
4b 01:28 – End
Performer [Improvisations] – Ergo Phizmiz, James NyeVoice Actor [Eloise] – Martha Moopette, Rebecca RobertsonVoice Actor [The Inventor] – Zenith Pitts
Chunk 5 2:56:20
"Garden"
5a 00:00 – 00:43
Voice Actor [Voice Of The Vine] – James Nye
“The Invention Of Birds” & “The Circus Of Delightful Misery”
5b 00:43 – 02:56
Recorded By [Field Recordings] – The Travelling MongooseRecorded By [Insect Recordings] – Irene MoonVoice Actor [The Voice Of Faustus] – Zenith PittsWritten-By [Interpretations Of Erik Satie’s “le Tango Perpetuel” Created With] – James NyeWritten-By [“secrets” Monologue], Performer [“secrets” Monologue] – James Nye

Credits

  • Cover – Moritz Grünke
  • Other [Project Consultants] – James Nye, Martha Moopette, The Travelling Mongoose
  • Written-By [Contains Interpretations Of Music By] – Bert Kalmar, Camille Saint-Saens*, Carlo Gesualdo, Charles Tennier*, Claudio Monteverdi, Cole Porter, Erik Satie, Four Tops, The*, Georges Bizet, Giuseppe Verdi, Harry Ruby, Jacques Offenbach, J.S. Bach*, Melchior Franck, Peggy Lee, Sergei Prokofiev, Arthur Sullivan*, Thomas Ravenscroft, W.A. Mozart*
  • Written-By, Composed By, Performer, Producer – Ergo Phizmiz

Notes

The Faust Cycle
or, The House of Dr Faustus

Written & Recorded 2006-2009
Ventnor, Newport, East Cowes, Ryde, Freshwater, Buckfastleigh, Brighton, London (UK)
La Ferriere aux Etangs, La Noe de Fendrement (France)
Tirgu-Mures, Transylvania (Romania)

Dedicated to
Joseph Cornell
Ken Campbell
Morecambe & Wise

Supported by
Arts Council England
Vaguely Marsupial Productions
Martin Enderlein @ Headphonica
Soundart Radio
VentnorBlog
Quay Arts
BüroPluspunkt

Elements of The Faust Cycle were presented as works in progress on WFMU (wfmu.org), and Soundart Radio (soundartradio.org.uk), who also broadcast the premiere of the entire work.
Instrumental excerpts have been released as “Music From The House of Dr Faustus” on the FMA

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
HPCD073, none Ergo Phizmiz & Friends The Faust Cycle ‎(12xFile, MP3, 320) Headphonica, Free Music Archive HPCD073, none 2010