Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman- House With A Curse (2026)
BAND/ARTIST: Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman
- Title: House With A Curse
- Year Of Release: 2026
- Label: Clay Pipe Music
- Genre: Soundtrack, Electronic, Experimental
- Quality: FLAC 16/44100; MP3 320
- Total Time: 00:39:50
- Total Size: 169; 250 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Scottish composers Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman are releasing a collaborative soundtrack album, “House With A Curse”. It is their second joint work after “Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On”, which was nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award. Dundee Contemporary Arts’ Dundead Film Festival commissioned them to write a new score for Rupert Julian’s 1925 film “The Phantom of the Opera”. Lon Chaney played Erik the Phantom in it, and the film is considered a landmark of the horror genre and of silent cinema: opulent costumes, extravagant sets, hundreds of extras and early Technicolor.
The music was written, recorded and mixed in under three months. The duo deliberately engages with the film’s portrayal of disability and otherness and looks at the classic story through a contemporary lens. Wasylyk composed melodies at the piano in his Dundee studio while the tragedy at the Paris Opera House was projected onto the wall. Perman made experimental percussive recordings at home, using the materials visible on screen: stone, wood, fabric, glass and metal. These recordings became the rhythmic and sonic foundation of the album.
The arrangements combine choral voices, piano, synthesiser, drum machine, nylon acoustic guitar and Mellotron, all delivered in a distorted, haunting way built on contrasts: expansive yet claustrophobic, linear yet crooked, hypnotic and achingly beautiful. There is nothing of the traditional horror soundtrack here. In “Take Callers Have Departed”, heavily processed operatic voices and foreboding techno give way to plucked guitar and gliding Farfisa synthesiser. “Strangler’s Noose Coils Quick” leads into the subterranean chambers beneath Paris, where drum machine and piano accompany Raoul and Ledoux’s attempt to rescue Christine. “Empty Promise Open Palm” is built on a distorted synth bass and a motif that nudges the rhythm toward a dark, fatal cadence. The album is conceived as an exchange between past and present, and as an original alternative “veil” for a classic horror spectacle.
Tracklist:
01-01 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Come What May [1:02]
01-02 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - (You Must) Forget Our Love [1:03]
01-03 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - From Hidden Places Beyond The Walls [1:44]
01-04 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Dried Tears At The West Gate [1:03]
01-05 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - My Dear Managers [1:22]
01-06 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Joseph's Theme [1:56]
01-07 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Strangler's Noose Coils Quick [3:19]
01-08 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Callers Have Departed [2:43]
01-09 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - I Placed The World At Your Feet [2:10]
01-10 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Career And Master [0:31]
01-11 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - The Sanctuary Of Song [1:53]
01-12 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Beyond The Mirror Lies The Door To Love [3:37]
01-13 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Box Number Five [1:41]
01-14 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Red Robe Spectral Figure [2:38]
01-15 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Rooftops In Blue [2:50]
01-16 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Echo Of The Messenger [1:48]
01-17 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - A Heat Intolerable [3:47]
01-18 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - I Placed The World At Your Feet #2 [1:42]
01-19 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Empty Promise Open Palm [3:00]
The music was written, recorded and mixed in under three months. The duo deliberately engages with the film’s portrayal of disability and otherness and looks at the classic story through a contemporary lens. Wasylyk composed melodies at the piano in his Dundee studio while the tragedy at the Paris Opera House was projected onto the wall. Perman made experimental percussive recordings at home, using the materials visible on screen: stone, wood, fabric, glass and metal. These recordings became the rhythmic and sonic foundation of the album.
The arrangements combine choral voices, piano, synthesiser, drum machine, nylon acoustic guitar and Mellotron, all delivered in a distorted, haunting way built on contrasts: expansive yet claustrophobic, linear yet crooked, hypnotic and achingly beautiful. There is nothing of the traditional horror soundtrack here. In “Take Callers Have Departed”, heavily processed operatic voices and foreboding techno give way to plucked guitar and gliding Farfisa synthesiser. “Strangler’s Noose Coils Quick” leads into the subterranean chambers beneath Paris, where drum machine and piano accompany Raoul and Ledoux’s attempt to rescue Christine. “Empty Promise Open Palm” is built on a distorted synth bass and a motif that nudges the rhythm toward a dark, fatal cadence. The album is conceived as an exchange between past and present, and as an original alternative “veil” for a classic horror spectacle.
Tracklist:
01-01 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Come What May [1:02]
01-02 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - (You Must) Forget Our Love [1:03]
01-03 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - From Hidden Places Beyond The Walls [1:44]
01-04 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Dried Tears At The West Gate [1:03]
01-05 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - My Dear Managers [1:22]
01-06 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Joseph's Theme [1:56]
01-07 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Strangler's Noose Coils Quick [3:19]
01-08 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Callers Have Departed [2:43]
01-09 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - I Placed The World At Your Feet [2:10]
01-10 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Career And Master [0:31]
01-11 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - The Sanctuary Of Song [1:53]
01-12 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Beyond The Mirror Lies The Door To Love [3:37]
01-13 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Box Number Five [1:41]
01-14 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Red Robe Spectral Figure [2:38]
01-15 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Rooftops In Blue [2:50]
01-16 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Echo Of The Messenger [1:48]
01-17 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - A Heat Intolerable [3:47]
01-18 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - I Placed The World At Your Feet #2 [1:42]
01-19 Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Empty Promise Open Palm [3:00]
| Soundtracks | Electronic | FLAC / APE | Mp3
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