Burn your copy of Halloween Hits – David Lynch is here to provide you with a chilling score with which to soundtrack next week’s celebration of all things creepy.
Polish Night Music, his collaboration with concert pianist Marek Zebrowski recorded between 2004 and 2006, is an LP that bypasses the sounds of groaning monsters and creaking cellar doors and instead conjures fear in its eerie atmosphere inspired by empty train stations, factories at night and silent hotels.
The two artists met during the Camerimage film festival in Lódź, Poland, and worked together on Lynch’s 2006 film Inland Empire – with Zebrowski initially serving as a translator for Lynch on several of the scenes filmed in Poland. The pair eventually realised they had much in common musically, and Lynch invited Zebrowski to his Los Angeles studio to begin experimenting. From these sessions came Polish Night Music, inspired by their fascination with the country.
“(Poland) is a landscape that continues to remain at once familiar and completely alien to me,” Zebrowski explains. “Every time I am there, I am surprised by something, and I think for David, Poland certainly represents the process of discovery.”
The LP, which originally came out in 2008, is reissued as a vinyl-only deluxe release with four previously unreleased tracks on 13 November, but before then you can take a listen to the track Night (Landscape with Factory).