LABEL: Sacred Bones

CAT NO: SBR123LPC6

BARCODE: 0843563135723

Tracklisting:

1. Vortex
2. Obsidian
3. Fallen
4. Domain
5. Mystery
6. Abyss
7. Wraith
8. Purgatory
9. Night

JOHN CARPENTER Lost Themes
(2021 Reissue)

LP Limited Edition Red Smoke Vinyl

John Carpenter, the Legendary Director and Composer behind Halloween, Escape From New York, They Live, Assault on Precinct 13 and many more announces his debut solo album Lost Themes out February 3rd on Sacred Bones Records. In anticipation of his debut release, Carpenter shares a new track Vortex, a custom-designed video for Vortex set to clips from different Carpenter films and the full album artwork and track list.

John Carpenter has been responsible for much of the horror genres most striking soundtrack work in the fifteen movies hes both directed and scored. The themes that drive them can be stripped to a few coldly repeating notes, take on the electrifying thunder of a rock concert, or submerge themselves into exotic, unholy miasmas. Its work that instantly floods his fans musical memory with imagery of a menacing shape stalking a babysitter, a relentless wall of ghost-filled fog, lightning-fisted kung fufighters, or a mirror holding the gateway to hell. Lost Themes asks Carpenters acolytes to visualize their own nightmares.

Lost Themes was all about having fun, Carpenter says. It can be both great and bad to score over images, which is what Im used to. Here there were no pressures. No actors asking me what theyre supposed to do. No crew waiting. No cutting room to go to. No

release pending. Its just fun. And I couldnt have a better set-up at my house, where I depended on (collaborators) Cody (Carpenter, of the band Ludrium) and Daniel (Davies, who scored I, Frankenstein) to bring me ideas as we began improvising. The plan was to make my music more complete and fuller, because we had unlimited tracks. I wasnt dealing with just analogue anymore. Its a brand new world. And there was nothing in any of our heads when we started other than to make it moody.

As is Carpenters style, repetition is the key to the thundering power of these tracks, their energy swirling with shredding chords, soaring organs, unnerving pianos and captivating percussion. Singularly titled to inspire dread with such names as Vortex, Dominion, Abyss, and Purgatory, but all linked into a unified whole, Lost Themes has a mesmerizing power. Horror fans will be reminded of Carpenters past works, as well as ancestors like Mike Oldfelds Tubular Bells and the raging guitars and chiming percussion of Goblins Suspiria. Both classical music and rock and roll are part of my musical language, which is riff-driven, Carpenter explains. So if you listen carefully, Im sure you can hear some echoes from my past. But Im sure thats true of any composer. You just bring your music along with you.