Label: Finders Keepers

Reissued 2020, Originally released 2011

The original orchestral/electronic score from Karel Kachyna’s 1976 Czech film adaptation of Hans C. Anderson’s The Little Mermaid, composed by Zdeněk Liška (The Cremator/Fruits of Paradise) featuring Lenka Korinkova. Liška’s legacy in the history of European cinema is huge in volume but relatively modest in it’s celebrity. Having already composed nine scores for Kachyna’s films to add to his 1976 filmography of 150 completed soundtracks. Back in 2005, five years before Finders Keepers Records released Zdeněk Liška’s soundtrack to Malá mořská víla for the first time, folklore and fairy tale fanatics around the globe celebrated the 200 year anniversary of the birth of one of the world’s most celebrated children’s authors of the published era. This Danish born writer’s stories have been translated into over 150 languages and have continued to enchant and inspire children and adults, arts and crafts, film and theatre, providing a creative binding substance in modern society’s social fibre. 

Track listing:

1. Malá Mořská Víla
2. Witch's Firewall
3. Pearls From The Deep  
4. King Of The Ocean
5. The Pendant / The Little Mermaid (Theme)  
6. The Song Of The Siren (Theme)  
7. The Sixth Sister
8. Statue Of Salt 1    
9. Aquatic Babička (Theme)    
10. In Safe Hands
11. Statue Of Salt 2
12. Aquatic Babička (Song)
13. The Black Sea
14. Čarodějnice's Castle  
15. The Song Of The Siren (Song)
16. Prince Of The Southern Empire  
17. Games / Echoes  
18. The Kiss
19. Ascension To Fireworks
20. Bird In A Cage
21. The Voice
22. Behind The Rock  
23. Sunken Dagger / The Little Mermaid (Song)  
24. The Pendant