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Robert's extended soundtrack for the Mikrokosmos Theatre Company's production of 'Faustus', also directed by Robert, takes its musical themes and inspiration from Marlowe's play. In the play Faustus enters into a contract with the devil and eventually pays the price but knowledge of the play's narrative is not an essential prerequisite to enjoy the music on offer here. Ominous tolling bells initiate the first track 'Portent', a fittingly restless prelude to the superbly atmospheric electronics evoking a restless sonic nightmare.

'Mephistopheles' begins with a richly dense Gothic soundtrack with powerful percussion effects before Fox delivers one of his top drawer evocative, yet understated melodies, stately but tinged with melancholy. 'Underworld' utilises voices, chants and whispers to great effect as a minimalist backdrop to some fine piano and keyboard work. 'Hot Whore' opens with a salvo of exotic Vangelis-style electronic treatments before settling into a piano riff and periodic expansive full-on keyboard sound interspersed with more minimalist improvisation passages. 'Seven Deadly Sins' has a highly charged, unsettling , impressionistic introduction before undergoing a variety of changes, including Vangelis-style phrasings and dramatic percussion with clever touches of light and shade provided by some sensitive piano and voice samples. Fox serves up a more typically expansive melody on the excellent 'Angel' providing a more relaxed ethereal atmosphere.