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New Soundtrack: Get Surreal with ‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’

The original soundtrack to the graphic novel to the greatest movie never made, Giraffes on Horseback Salad – Original Soundtrack features score by Quin Arbeitman and tracks by Pepe Deluxé and Josh Frank – available now on Lakeshore Records!  Listen below.

“Bring beverage and blanket, Josh Frank’s soundtrack for Giraffes On Horseback Salad has a dreamlike intensity, rabbit-holes that lead to other rabbit-holes, presented as floor show, musical comedy album that guides with libretto and gags and surreal contemplation from another time and place. Stay hydrated.” – The Pixies’ Black Francis

“Giraffes on Horseback Salad: The Album is a tantalizing work of musical speculative fiction.” – Joel Hodgson, Creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000


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Giraffes On Horseback Salad: The Greatest Original Soundtrack Never Made

Well, actually, it’s been made: Lakeshore Records is set to release Giraffes On Horseback Salad – Original Soundtrack digitally on July 26 — the companion album to the recently released graphic novel Giraffes on Horseback Salad.  Written by pop culture historian Josh Frank (Fool the World: An Oral History of The Pixies), the vividly illustrated book that NPR’s “Fresh Air” has praised and Publisher’s Weekly called “Utterly one of a kind” is based on a screenplay written in 1937 by famed Surrealist Salvador Dali as a potential movie for the Marx Brothers.  The screenplay merged Dalí’s imaginative art with the fast-paced comedy of the Marx Brothers.  Rejected by MGM, the film never made it to the silver screen, disappearing into the annals of history, a footnote in the otherwise prolific careers of artistic greats.  

Fully realized and reimagined in graphic novel form (with original songs baked into the book through lyrics sung by the characters in word bubbles), Frank turned his attention to creating a REAL “soundtrack” with song, score and spoken word vignettes.  Frank enlisted the help of composer and jazz multi-instrumentalist Quin Arbeitman who brought the book to life with a large cast of players and vocalists from around the world including Japanese harpist Kaoru Arai-Colucci who played solos throughout reminiscent of Harpo’s contributions to each Marx Brothers film.

Pre-order The Album: [iTunes]

“Bring beverage and blanket, Josh Frank’s soundtrack for Giraffes On Horseback Salad has a dreamlike intensity, rabbit-holes that lead to other rabbit-holes, presented as floor show, musical comedy album that guides with libretto and gags and surreal contemplation from another time and place. Stay hydrated.” The Pixies’ Black Francis

Keep reading to view the track list and more.

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