Scott Walker's largely-overlooked (and hopelessly rare) soundtrack to the 1999 movie Pola X, directed by Leos Carax and starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve.
The music on Pola X verges from utter discordancy to fragile
beauty. As a result, this CD perhaps represents the most accessible route to understanding and appreciating the music on Scott Walker's latter-period albums.
Pola X was released in Japan and France only. The album was not in print for long; it soon became a collector's item.
All of the tracks composed by Scott Walker on Pola X were compiled in the 2003 box set Scott Walker In 5 Easy Pieces. However, they were presented in a different order to the original album, and interspersed with other examples of his film songs and compositions.
At the time of writing, both Pola X and the box set In 5 Easy Pieces are out-of-print, and command high prices on the collector's market.
Meanwhile, I am not aware of any other available lossless download of the CD Pola X anywhere on the internet.
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