John Carpenter - Lost Themes III: Alive After Death (Original Soundtrack) - VINYL LP

Much has changed in the musical life of renowned composer and director John Carpenter since 2016's Lost Themes II. Following the of that album, he went on his first-ever concert tour, performing material from the Lost Themes albums, as well as music from his classic film scores. He re-recorded many of those classic movie themes for 2017's Anthology album, working alongside son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies. The following year, he was asked to executive produce and compose the music for the new Halloween movie directed by David Gordon Green, which promptly became the highest-grossing install- ment in the series. Now, he returns with his first album of non-soundtrack music in nearly five years, Lost Themes III Alive After Death.Underpinning Carpenter's renaissance as a musician has been his collaboration with Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. They've composed and performed as a trio throughout this entire run, on studio albums, on soundtracks, and onstage. Here, the trio reaches a new level of creative mind meld. Richly rendered worlds are built in the interplay between Davies's guitar and the dueling synthesizers played by the Carpenters.InchWe begin with a theme, a bass line, a pad, something that sounds good and will lead us to the next layer,Inch John says of the trio's process. InchWe then just keep adding on from there. We understand each other's strengths and weaknesses, how to communicate without words, and the process is easier now than it was in the beginning. We've matured.InchWhereas the original Lost Themes album came as a pleasant surprise after years of relative silence from Carpenter, the third installment sees him in the midst of a resurgent moment as a cultural force. The 2018 Halloween score gave his music it's biggest audience in decades, and the world he releases his new album into is one that has, at long last, given him the credit he

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John Carpenter has been responsible for much of the horror genre's most strikingsoundtrack work in the fifteen movies he's both directed and scored. The themescan instantly flood his fans' musical memory with imagery of a menacing shapestalking a babysitter, a relentless wall of ghost-filled fog, lightning-fisted kungfu fighters, or a mirror holding the gateway to hell. The all-new music on LostThemes asks Carpenter's acolytes to visualize their own nightmares.InchLost Themes was all about having fun,Inch Carpenter says. InchIt can be both great andbad to score over images, which is what I'm used to. Here there were no pressures.No actors asking me what they're supposed to do. No crew waiting. No cuttingroom to go to. No pending. It's just fun. And I couldn't have a betterset-up at my house, where I depended on (collaborators) Cody (Carpenter, of theband Ludrium) and Daniel (Davies, who wrote the songs for I, Frankenstein) tobring me ideas as we began improvising. The plan was to make my music morecomplete and fuller, because we had unlimited tracks. I wasn't dealing with justanalogue anymore. It's a brand new world. And there was nothing in any of ourheads when we started other than to make it moody.InchAs is Carpenter's style, repetition is the key to the thundering power of thesetracks, their energy swirling with shredding chords, soaring organs, unnervingpianos and captivating percussion. Horror fans will be reminded of Carpenter'spast works, as well as ancestors like Mike Oldfeld's Tubular Bells and Goblin'sSuspiria.InchThey're little moments of score from movies made in our imaginations,Inch Carpenter says. InchNow I hope it inspires people to create films that could be scored withthis music.