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Moving Pictures

“I studied cinema for my degree, so I knew what the film is about: it’s not a [horror] film, it’s a political film about authoritarianism and the danger of things like the Nazis in Germany.”

After completing their 2018 album, Vortex, Toundra had just started to size up their next challenge when a promoter came to them with an idea: would they be interested in re-soundtracking the 1920 silent horror film Das Cabinet Des Dr Caligari? The band said yes, and set to work.

“They proposed for us to do this film in December 2018 just for one show in May 2019,” guitarist Esteban Girón explains. “We were on tour with , we came home in March and we’d been writing the music from Christmas

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