Sep 11, 2025
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158: Thierry Zaboitzeff // Prométhée
Prométhée Thierry Zaboitzeff 1984, Cryonic Inc.
I bought this record because when I went to the shop they had a Venezuelan copy of Operation: Mindcrime and for some reason I decided I really wanted it, but an acquaintance of mine who is a cool jazz musician was working the till and I didn’t want to just roll up with a fucking Queensrÿche album so I grabbed this too. This is perfectly fine charcoal-coloured electronic ambient music poured into an unrinsed bottle that once contained some prog, so there’s a bit of that flavour as well. Zaboitzeff was one of the leaders of Art Zoyd, a French Rock in Opposition/avant-prog group who toured with Magma early on and eventually became known primarily for doing retroactive scores for vintage silent films like Häxan and Nosferatu. (Art Zoyd’s Nosferatu vs. Type O Negative’s Nosferatu: The Two Genders.)
I’d hoped this spookily-jacketed musical accompaniment to a Belgian theatrical performance would have a similar aura/intensity to fellow Magma-associate Bernard Szajner’s Some Deaths Take Forever (it even uses the same OCR-A font for the sleeve credits, the tease), but this one’s much more conventional ‘80s horror OST fare. It’s not bad, but don’t pay $30 Canadian ($7.27 USD) for it if your main goal is to impress a dude who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about what you’re buying, and actually has more to say about Queensrÿche anyway. Goddammit.
158/365
