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1semdetenebre
Redigerat: sep 13, 2011, 4:02 pm

Recommend some choice readings of weird fiction. What soundtracks or other music works good with what you're reading? What groups have songs with lyrics that relate to the subject matter of The Weird Tradition?

One soundtrack that I use for practically everything weird fiction-wise is Ennio Morricone's THE THING. Eerie as hell, it just seems to morph around whatever I'm reading to provide a perfect fit.*

*hey - just like the creature in the movie!

2Thulean
Redigerat: sep 13, 2011, 4:22 pm

Mentioned in arts link in the other thread already but I think it deserves individual attention is Rudimentary Peni.

Rudimentary Peni - The entire Cacophony album is about HPL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsruA_Cpux8

The Sword - The Black River - Obviously based on REH's Conan tale Beyond the Black River

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0UbdjIYNU8

The Sword - How Heavy This Axe - Which I believe is about Kull of Atlantis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9KbmRTgigQ&ob=av2n

The Sword - Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians - Very post-apocalyptic S&S

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI7227GHvQY&feature=relmfu

Manilla Road - Necropolis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvQVln9fAU

3artturnerjr
sep 13, 2011, 4:41 pm

4Thulean
sep 13, 2011, 4:56 pm

If you haven't heard it yet they put out a concept album called Warped Riders not too long ago. It is pretty much space opera though.

6artturnerjr
sep 13, 2011, 5:10 pm

>4 Thulean:

Cool. What I've heard of their stuff sounds as if they just stepped out of a time machine on a journey from 1973, which is probably why I like them so much. :)

A similar band (down to the weird fiction references in their lyrics) that I enjoy a great deal is Electric Wizard. If you haven't heard them, they're kind of like the band for people who listen to Ozzy-era Black Sabbath and then complain that it's not heavy enough. :D

7Thulean
sep 13, 2011, 5:34 pm

Maybe Warped Riders isn't space opera. Here is how Wikipedia describes it -

"Warp Riders tells the tale of Ereth, an archer banished from his tribe on the planet Acheron. A hardscrabble planet that has undergone a tidal lock, which has caused one side to be scorched by three suns, and the other enshrouded in perpetual darkness, it is the background for a tale of strife and fantasy, the battle between pure good and pure evil. How it's told – through the dueling lead guitars of J.D. Cronise and Kyle Shutt, and the concussive rhythm section of bassist Bryan Ritchie and drummer Trivett Wingo – underscores the narrative with molten steel and unreal precision."

"The story of Warp Riders, entitled "The Night The Sky Cried Tears Of Fire" (written by Cronise), follows Ereth as he discovers a mysterious orb and meets the Chronomancer, a being beyond time and space who enlists him in a quest to restore the planet's balance. Along the way he encounters strange warriors, mysterious witches, ancient androids, and a crew of space pirates with a vessel that will alter the course of history... a vessel known as, The Sword."

Sounds kind of S&P?

8artturnerjr
sep 13, 2011, 5:49 pm

>7 Thulean:

I dunno - it sounds kinda like like they threw a bunch of speculative fiction genres in a blender & used whatever came out, a la Stephen King's Dark Tower books. Having said that, the storylines of most concept albums almost never make sense in synopsis - I remember reading a plot summary of the Who's Tommy when I was just starting to get into that band & being like, "Excuse me?" :D

9artturnerjr
sep 14, 2011, 1:56 pm

>1 semdetenebre:

I watched Inglourious Basterds lst night and was reminded once again of how much I love Morricone's music. Morricone, Bernard Herrmann, and John Williams will always be the Holy Trinity of film music to me, I think.

10semdetenebre
Redigerat: sep 14, 2011, 2:17 pm

#9

Haven't seen INGLORIOUS BASTERDS yet, and I'd forgotten that Morricone did the music. He is one of the great film composers, and one thing I like about him is that he tailors his talents to what is required by the film, and not the other way around. You'll notice this if you listen to the varied compositions in the "1966-1987" CD set. He also did quirky things like the hip 60's spy soundtrack to my favorite superhero movie, Mario Bava's DANGER DIABOLIK. And then there is THE THING, which is unlike anything I've heard EM do before. It is one ominous piece of work, and works well with anything from HPL to Ramsey Campbell.

11elenchus
Redigerat: sep 14, 2011, 2:44 pm

Agree totally about Morricone. I'm not familiar with The Thing (though I think I need to remedy that), but his soundtracks for The Mission and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly could not be more appropriate to each film, nor more different.

Herrmann is definitely great, but I can recognise a Herrmann score a mile away, most times. At least, the dramatic bits -- which is how I think of his work, overall. But then I adore Hitchcock and Herrmann's work there defines him for me.

12gilroy
Redigerat: sep 14, 2011, 2:52 pm

Good for reading Pratchett, at least for me:

UHF by Weird Al Yankovic

13artturnerjr
sep 14, 2011, 2:59 pm

>10 semdetenebre:

He's always so creative in terms of his arrangements & choices of instruments. I wish I could get in a time machine and attend an early screening of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the combination of Morricone's music & Leone's tremendous visuals (especially up on the big screen) must have just made people freak out, y'know?

14semdetenebre
Redigerat: sep 14, 2011, 6:09 pm

#2

Rudimentary Peni - what the hell was that!?! The whole album, you say? Note that one of the comments mentions that most of the words to the "monologue" were taken from Avram Davidson...

# 13

I was at a 1966 screening of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY! Of course, I was only 4. My parents took me with them to the drive-in. I fell asleep. Strangely enough, I still retain a tiny memory of the film that night, solely based on the atmosphere that Morricone's soundtrack provided. Strong stuff!

15semdetenebre
sep 14, 2011, 3:56 pm

I also like to use Tangerine Dream for weird-tale reading soundtrack music. You have to be a little careful here, because they've had so many lineup changes with differing intent and you can really get some god-awful soundtrack music from them. If you go with their 1970's non-soundtrack releases like ZEIT, PHAEDRA or STRATOSFEAR, you can find some choice eerie electronic soundscapes. Their soundtrack for Friedkin's SORCEROR is great, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5SMyYj0D2o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w8VsvJ40sM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ_KXK3eNdI

16randalhoctor
sep 14, 2011, 6:55 pm

Librivox has multiple renditions of Poe and Lovecraft material.

15 KentonSem: Yeah Tangerine Dream has some cool stuff. So does Pink Floyd - instrumentals Ummagumma and earlier.

Perhaps some of the Industrial bands.

Forgive me if I'm OT. I'm new to this group and not sure what the theme is.

That being said, Chet Zar is my favorite weird artist:

17artturnerjr
sep 14, 2011, 8:42 pm

>16 randalhoctor:

Hey, randalhoctor! Nice to see you in this neck of the woods. :)

Listened to a nice reading of HPL's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath on Librivox several months back. Can't recall the name of the lady that read it, though.

I don't usually listen to music when I'm reading (ADD issues), but I did have a cool experience a while back listening to the 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack on headphones while reading Clark Ashton Smith's City of the Singing Flame - seemed like they were made for one another. I also find that Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music makes for a nifty white noise generator if one is needed for reading time (or otherwise).

18semdetenebre
Redigerat: sep 14, 2011, 8:59 pm

#16

Welcome to the Weird Tradition, randalhoctor! UMMAGUMMA is fantastic (both albums). I read to that one often enough. Will get to some industrial stuff eventually in this thread...

See the group description on the main page. While we are targeting a fairly specific type of horror fiction in this group, we can go off on some strange tangents now and then. So, say what ye will, but try to bring it back to the weird fiction focus whenever possible.

#17

METAL MACHINE MUSIC - that's an interesting idea!

Both- what is Librovox?

19paradoxosalpha
Redigerat: sep 14, 2011, 9:16 pm

Nox Arcana's Necronomicon has its weaknesses, but it's an earnest effort with a glamorous website. My Other Reader thinks it sounds like a primitive videogame score. To me it seems rather derivative from Danzig's Black Aria.

20artturnerjr
sep 14, 2011, 9:20 pm

http://www.archive.org/details/librivoxaudio

Not as much fun as the Live Music Archive at the same site, but there is still lots of good stuff to be found.

That reminds me - Godspeed You! Black Emperor would probably make for excellent weird fictional soundtrack music:

http://www.archive.org/details/gybe2001-09-28.shn

21paradoxosalpha
sep 14, 2011, 9:29 pm

Hey, just five weeks til the sun goes into Scorpio, innit?

Oh, and Alan Moore's Angel Passage is the shit for literary weird audio.

22artturnerjr
sep 14, 2011, 9:39 pm

>21 paradoxosalpha:

Dude, I fuckin' love that song! Makes the hairs on my arms stand on end every time I hear it.

And Alan Moore is the shit, period, as far as I'm concerned. :)

23elenchus
Redigerat: sep 14, 2011, 9:54 pm

Industrial: yah. Shinjuku Thief is interestingly tactile, The Witch Hammer has torch-wielding mobs, wind sighing through trees, and so forth ... but sometimes distracts from reading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_l2gHevraM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n7qDyMRn3c

Edited: first link had limited audio, replaced with another.

24randalhoctor
Redigerat: sep 15, 2011, 8:30 am

#18: The link for Librivox is given by #20 artturnerjr. Its a web site with audio material that is in the public domain, meaning its not copy right protected so no complications. Some of it is quit good, even read by famous actors occasionally. There's some crap too but there's a lot of good stuff.

Regarding industrial music; I don't know too much except for Skinny Puppy. I listen to various internet radio stations for dark industrial background.

Industrial first caught my attention while watching the TV series Millenium and X Files.

25paradoxosalpha
sep 15, 2011, 8:41 am

I have two CDs of X Files scores by Mark Snow: one from the TV series, another from the feature film. They're both quite good, although the the TV one (which I like better musically) is cluttered with clips of dialogue from the show.

26semdetenebre
Redigerat: okt 21, 2011, 9:20 am

Thanks for the Librivox info - Searches for Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft bring up a number of completed works. Next question is what the quality is like - I'll check these out when I get a chance.

#24

Skinny Puppy's resident geniuses cEvin Key and the late Dwayne Goettel did a number of side projects. The one called Doubting Thomas seemed especially well-suited to producing eerie soundtrack-like music. They only did one full-length DT album called THE INFIDEL, but it's well worth tracking down.

GHOSTS I-IV is an instrumental album from Nine Inch Nails that works well as background music. The whole thing is downloadable for five bucks, or the first 9 tracks can be had for free:

http://ghosts.nin.com/main/home

Clock DVA, with their weird tape loops and samples can be quite good, especially for grimmer tales set in an urban setting, although there are vocals.

Oh, there's more (SPK?), but my brain needs more coffee... There is one very interesting album called Nostromo by Sleep Research Facility that provides droning ambient sounds as it represents going from room to room on the Nostromo from ALIEN. I used this when I was reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, and it was just unnerving.

http://www.myspace.com/sleepresearchfacility

#20

Yes! Godspeed You Black Emperor - good choice. Vaguely related, also check out SCIZOEFFECTIVE by The Delta.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephen.adam/Delta/scizoeffective.html

27paradoxosalpha
sep 15, 2011, 3:59 pm

> 22

Check out the brilliant and creepy cover by Richard Thompson.

28artturnerjr
sep 15, 2011, 4:56 pm

>27 paradoxosalpha:

Yeah, they nailed that mother to the wall, didn't they? 8)

I'm a big Richard Thompson fan. His "When I Get To The Border" (w/ ex-wife Linda) is one of my favorite songs of all time.

If you're not familiar w/ it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEk-wjil1rA

29paradoxosalpha
sep 15, 2011, 7:28 pm

> 28

Yeah, not all that weird, but that whole album's terrific.

30semdetenebre
Redigerat: sep 16, 2011, 8:49 am

I also must add AGHARTA and BITCHES BREW by Miles Davis to the list. These mid-70s albums are extremely, well, WEIRD. Very moody and free-form soundscapes. Great with mid-to-late period Leiber.

31pgmcc
sep 16, 2011, 9:41 am

Current 93 have recorded music for and accompanied readings of Thomas Ligotti's writing.

http://www.discogs.com/Current-93-With-Thomas-Ligotti-In-A-Foreign-Town-In-A-For...

32Thulean
sep 16, 2011, 11:49 am

Current 93 has someone that was in Crisis with the dudes from Death in June and Sol Invictus, right? Never really got into Current 93 though. I'll have to check them out.

33Bookmarque
sep 16, 2011, 5:20 pm

Funny I stumble on this thread while listening to The Butthole Surfers.

Timing is everything.

34slickdpdx
Redigerat: sep 16, 2011, 7:01 pm

23 going on 24 is pretty creepy. And there's a Creep in the Cellar and the O-Men. And its better to regret something you have done than something you haven't done...

35artturnerjr
sep 24, 2011, 6:46 pm

Top this, folks. :)

http://youtu.be/-XTmWag6wfw

36randalhoctor
sep 24, 2011, 7:41 pm

Do you have something to tell us Art? ;-)

The Black Cat is my favorite Poe shorty.

37artturnerjr
sep 24, 2011, 7:56 pm

>36 randalhoctor:

Possibly. Come to my cellar and we'll discuss it, Randal. ;)

For me, it's a tie between "Cask" and "The Masque of the Red Death".

38cosmicdolphin
sep 24, 2011, 8:43 pm

And Lets not forget 'Shoggoth on the Roof' Yes. The Lovecraftian reworking of Fiddler on the Roof.

http://www.cthulhulives.org/Musical/cdinfo.html

:-) If I were a Deep One.........

39artturnerjr
okt 7, 2011, 7:13 pm

>21 paradoxosalpha:

Guess what I heard on satellite radio this afternoon. 8)

40randalhoctor
okt 7, 2011, 8:42 pm

Can you get it on internet radio?

41semdetenebre
Redigerat: okt 20, 2011, 8:55 am

Anyone ever hear of an early 70's "Krautrock" group called Amon Düül? I recently heard them on a Pandora station I created for Goblin and loved what I heard enough to buy their "Yeti" album. Experimental psychedelia a la Can or "Ummagumma" era Pink Floyd. This stuff goes great with Weird lit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_D%C3%BC%C3%BCl

42artturnerjr
okt 20, 2011, 10:37 am

>41 semdetenebre:

Heard of? Yes. Heard? No.

Do the have anything representive up on YouTube?

44paradoxosalpha
okt 20, 2011, 11:44 am

> 43

Good stuff. Sort of reminds me of Hawkwind, although "Eye-Shaking King" veers off towards Captain Beefheart.

45semdetenebre
okt 20, 2011, 12:33 pm

Hawkwind, definitely. Now that you mention it, I can hear Beefheart in the off-kilter time signature in "Eye-Shaking King".

Amon Düül II:

46artturnerjr
okt 20, 2011, 1:55 pm

If they sound like at all like Beefheart, I'll probably love 'em. 8)

47cosmicdolphin
okt 20, 2011, 4:45 pm

I think Dave Anderson played Bass for Amon Duul II, and briefly also for Hawkwind.

Hawkwind are very nice folks. They played a gig for my wedding on the Summer Solstice a few years back. If you want weird, seeing your mum bop away to Hassan I Sahba (Assassins of Allah) at your own wedding reception certainly qualifies.

:-)

48paradoxosalpha
Redigerat: okt 20, 2011, 10:35 pm

> 47

= goggle =

Uh ... the bass line, that's just where I was hearing the most similarity actually.

49cosmicdolphin
Redigerat: okt 21, 2011, 5:43 am

47 paradoxosalpha

The God of Hellfire (Arthur Brown) performed the Wedding ceremony :-) The Psychedelic Light show was very nice :-) Just to add to the weirdness of the whole event, it was held at 'The Hotel California'

(Dave Anderson played on the 'In Search of Space' album for Hawkwind in 1971)

50semdetenebre
okt 21, 2011, 9:00 am

>47 cosmicdolphin:/49

That is too cool! How did you get them? Know someone in the band?

51cosmicdolphin
okt 21, 2011, 11:36 am

My wife and I fell in love on tour with Hawkwind in 2001. We got to know the band, and everyone involved. They were very kind to us, and thought it was lovely that Hawkwind had brought us together.

My wife, being the cheeky brash American that she is, said 'So you coming to play the wedding then?' And they said yes. We had the wedding ceremony down in Newquay, Cornwall. Arthur Brown also very kindly performed the ceremony (he was guesting with the band that year). Accompanying them were the lighting folks (Chaos Illumination) and Roadies (who were all invited to the wedding).

The lineup Was: Dave Brock (Guitar), Alan Davey (Bass), Simon House (Violin), Richard Chadwick (Drums), Arthur Brown (Some Vocals), and Keith Barton (Guitars)

Set list: Love in Space; You Shouldn't Do That; Lighthouse; Time Captains; Take Me
To Your Leader; Hassan-i-Sahba (I); Space Is Their Palestine;
Hassan-i-Sahba (II); Steppenwolf; Angela Android; Assault & Battery;
Golden Void; Where Are They Now

http://www.starfarer.net/hwedding.html

Check it out :-)

52semdetenebre
okt 21, 2011, 1:55 pm

>51 cosmicdolphin:

Talk about a wedding to remember! Having a fave band play an occasion like that must be like being in a really good dream. Thanks for sharing that link.

53artturnerjr
Redigerat: mar 15, 2012, 1:19 pm

Had this one on good & loud the other day. Nothing screams "Impending Cosmic Doom" quite like the "Mars" movement of Holst's THE PLANETS.

http://youtu.be/L0bcRCCg01I

54Glassglue
mar 15, 2012, 12:59 pm

I think much of the music I listen to (Psych Rock, Drone, Prog) compliments weird fiction/sword & planet/dark fantasy/sci-fi, etc.

Dead Meadow, Space Debris, Electric Moon, The Myrrors, Electric Magma, Astra, The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, etc.

55RandyStafford
mar 15, 2012, 10:42 pm

Alan Parsons Project's Tales of Mystery and Imagination -- vocal and instrumental adaptations of Poe.

Wendy Carlos: Beauty and Beast and Tales of Heaven and Hell. Carlos uses a synthesizer to create eerie sounds and music with non-Western tunings.

Ralph Vaughn Williams' "Symphonia Antarctica" with its eerie choir and wind machines evokes a hostile, menacing landscape.

56semdetenebre
Redigerat: mar 15, 2012, 10:59 pm

>53 artturnerjr:, 54, 55

” Good oil!”, as a friend of mine would say. For me:

Prokofiev's Piano Concertos # 1,4,6,7 & 8, as played by Yefim Bronfman.

Symphony #6 (Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven) by Glenn Branca

And try creating a Pandora station for Goblin. There are some truly great associations made for various weird musical projects, most of whom I've never heard of before.

57paradoxosalpha
Redigerat: nov 14, 2012, 10:59 am

Bumping this thread in response to Art's Metallica offering in the Innsmouth thread.

I can't believe that I never mentioned in this discussion the two excellent Blue Oyster Cult songs:
Lips in the Hills (probably my favorite BOC tune ever)
Perfect Water (in the final voice of Robert Olmstead)

Also...

> 21, 22, 27

I heard a Hallowe'en music show on public radio last month where they were discussing the fact that Donovan was the target of the first big music star drug bust in the UK, and that he wrote "Season" when he was doing a lot of drugs, and getting freaky premonitions about trouble before the bust. Knowing that gives it an extra gloss of you're-not-paranoid-if-they're-really-out-to-get-you gnostic glamor for me.

58semdetenebre
nov 14, 2012, 9:59 am

>57 paradoxosalpha:

I was just listening to a bunch of BOC this past weekend. Here is an interesting related page:

http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.asp

Recommendation for weird reading: create a Pandora station for Nurse with Wound. Trust me.

59paradoxosalpha
nov 14, 2012, 10:09 am

Yesterday I finished reading and wrote my review of a LT Early Reviewer copy of Death Metal Music. The author, while inadvertantly demonstrating that the cultural influence of HPL was more extensive in death metal than she even suspected, also ignorantly glossed Lovecraft as "a nineteenth-century author"!

60semdetenebre
nov 14, 2012, 11:19 am

>59 paradoxosalpha:

Recommended viewing - the 2008 Norwegian black metal documentary Until the Light Takes Us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr_RaCM-1ug

61semdetenebre
Redigerat: nov 14, 2012, 11:28 am

>59 paradoxosalpha:

McFarland titles are mostly very interesting, although the books are hit-and-miss. A lot of time they are not much more than re-packaged dissertations or half-assed hobby horse productions with factual errors. I particularly enjoy reading Video Watchdog reviews of their film titles. There are plenty of good volumes to be found, though. Horror Films of the 1970s, for example, is a delight.

62paradoxosalpha
nov 14, 2012, 11:53 am

> 61

Yes, I've enjoyed their horror cinematography collections-by-decade quite a bit.

63elenchus
nov 14, 2012, 1:09 pm

>57 paradoxosalpha:

Agree about BOC, almost everything of theirs with Sandy Pearlman attached has a great esoterica gloss that I only sensed when listening as a teen.

64elenchus
nov 14, 2012, 1:13 pm

Terry Riley has some (to me) surprisingly good stuff. Weird primarily by virtue of the "clash of cultures" approach, he borrows a lot of Middle Eastern & Indian tunings, rhythms, melodic lines. But he also pairs it with Christian imagery in his titles. Again, I've not read up on him but I don't get the sense he finds it weird, or intends for it to come across that way.

See esp Atlantis Nath and Shri Camel. (No links as I'm at work and that's a no-no.)

67housefulofpaper
aug 22, 2013, 3:27 pm

The Incredible String Band "Witches Hat" - it walks the tightrope between eerie and silly without quite falling to either side, and suggestive of some aspects of Machen, Lovecraft, Blackwood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Z00tEMEIo

68housefulofpaper
sep 24, 2013, 6:18 pm

Rats (in the Walls) - pretty closely based on "The Rats in the Walls".

From a joint project by scary cabaret group The Tiger Lillies and Alexander Hacke (of Einstuerzende Neubauten).

Hopefully I've finally tracked down a copy of the DVD (via the Einstuerzende Neubauten website).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsPzOF6UL5s

69elenchus
Redigerat: okt 10, 2013, 5:19 pm

That's great, hadn't explored Tiger Lillies and didn't know of the Haecke connection. Neubauten's various radio dramas are an underappreciated part of their canon, I think. But then, EN are pretty underappreciated, generally.

70semdetenebre
sep 25, 2013, 9:28 am

>68 housefulofpaper:, 69

Thanks for the Tiger Lillies info. Will check it out. I've always liked EN very much (I even have a cat named Blixa Bargeld).

Douglas E. Winter's column in the new Video Watchdog informs me that a re-recording of Morricone's classic soundtrack for The Thing as interpreted by composer Alan Howarth is available. It includes "recreation of tracks not used in the film".

http://tinyurl.com/lqw89rt

71artturnerjr
sep 30, 2013, 3:44 pm

Currently rocking out to the ominous, Gustav Holst-like mood of "Jacob's Ladder" as performed by the three-man symphony orchestra commonly known as Rush:

http://youtu.be/xnkwhHOjv-4

8)

72housefulofpaper
okt 8, 2013, 4:10 pm

The 'Book at Bedtime' on BBC Radio 4, Mon-Fri next week, will be 5 stories by Algernon Blackwood.

They are abridged (by Robin Brooks) to fit the 15-minute time slot. The stories are (in transmission order as per the Radio Times listings): "Keeping His Promise"; The Land of Green Ginger"; "The Transfer"; "The Man Who Lived Backwards"; and "The Kit Bag".

The stories will be broadcast at 10:45-11:00 p.m. BST (British Summer Time). I doubt they will be available for download, but they will probably not be copy-protected if you have the means to record from the Net.

73housefulofpaper
okt 10, 2013, 3:06 pm

Further to >68 housefulofpaper:, My DVD of "Mountains of Madness" arrived on Monday. It's "all regions" according to the box.

Tiger Lillies frontman Martyn Jacques pronounces Cthulhu in a way I haven't heard before: "Kittaloo".

74semdetenebre
okt 10, 2013, 4:16 pm

>73 housefulofpaper:

Finally got around to the Tiger Lillies video posted up in >68 housefulofpaper:. Good stuff! Here's the skinny from the EN website:

http://www.neubauten.org/alexander-hacke-tiger-lillies-mountains-madness

75semdetenebre
feb 3, 2015, 11:45 am

Halloween and The Thing director John Carpenter just released an album of instrumental music. It's very retro and very good. If you like the soundtrack work of Goblin and Tangerine Dream, this might interest you. Downloadable from the usual outlets.

https://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/john-carpenter-vortex



76elenchus
feb 3, 2015, 11:58 am

Love Goblin's stuff, discovered it relatively recently. Tangerine Dream less enthusiastic about, it certainly fits in the history of electronic music but somehow doesn't do much for me. I've not heard deep into their discography, though, so if you recommend a particular title ....

77semdetenebre
feb 3, 2015, 12:22 pm

>76 elenchus:

Goblin is most famous, perhaps, for their Dawn of the Dead soundtrack, but I prefer Suspiria.

If you'd care to, try early Tangerine Dream, such as Zeit, Stratosfear or Phaedra. I also really like their soundtrack for Sorcerer. You have to be careful though - depending on their lineup, they could be horrendous at times, especially later on in their career.

R.I.P. Edgar Froese

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/27/edgar-froese-obituary

78elenchus
feb 3, 2015, 12:52 pm

I also prefer Suspiria to Dawn of the Dead, though I've not screened either film and so they each might fit their setting quite well. But for listening pleasure, definitely Suspiria.

I'm most familiar with Phaedra, as I own an LP edition. So perhaps I know their best style, and simply remain unimpressed. That's okay, too!

79semdetenebre
feb 3, 2015, 1:43 pm

>78 elenchus:

Absolutely okay!

I'm curious as to how it is that you've not seen either Suspiria or Dawn of the Dead to date. Not that anyone is required to see anything, of course. It's just that those are two pretty big fish...

80elenchus
Redigerat: feb 3, 2015, 1:57 pm

I actually avoid almost all horror, simply because it is very effective on me. For example, as an adult I was almost debilitated when left alone for the weekend I saw Jacob's Ladder, and also as an adult, had to watch The Shining in installments as I was too freaked out to continue watching. For me, those probably still are my touchstones in terms of how bad horror can be for me. If I watch anything now, it's because it's a social event, or somehow there's something cinematic about it that supersedes.

Somehow reading doesn't affect me the same way, there it's more a matter of not having a strong interest in it. The Weird Tradition is an exception, but I think I've mentioned before it's a very niche subgenre for me, I wouldn't play around nearly as much as I do were it not for this group.

ETA Yet books can evoke the same terror in me. Recently read a graphic short story collection, and there were flashes of it.

http://www.librarything.com/work/14877785/reviews/112425514

Must be something about images that do it to me, since words themselves and the visuals in my head are usually just deliciously macabre, and not terrifying.

81semdetenebre
Redigerat: feb 3, 2015, 2:33 pm

>80 elenchus:

Thanks very much for sharing that. To tell the truth, I wish that horror cinema still had that effect on me. I'm constantly in search of it, but my reaction and level of enjoyment at this point comes down to pure aesthetics. Put it down to lifelong supersaturation, I guess. The nearest I can get to that feeling is through reading, especially things of a "cosmic horror" nature. I think the best writers there (new or old) have really tapped into what is truly frightening!

Through the Woods is intriguing. I think you might have mentioned it here before and I put it on my Amazon wishlist. Hope to get to it soon.

One other Goblin note - the collection Music Composed And Performed By Goblin: Their Rare Tracks & Outtakes Collection, 1975-1989 is quite good. It's a well-rounded sampler.

82JeromeJ
feb 3, 2015, 9:02 pm

Medlemmem har stängts av.

83semdetenebre
Redigerat: feb 4, 2015, 9:45 am

>82 JeromeJ:

Requiem For a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn, both fine films, come from novels by Hubert Selby, Jr. "Brooklyn" is one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. Thanks for the heads-up on L'ange. I'll look for it. "Disturbing" is as good a description as any for the effect I seek in film. The final scenes of some movies, like Sluizer's The Vanishing (1993) and Ridley's The Reflecting Skin (1990) are forever burned into my brain. I was also pleasantly surprised that a recent viewing of the Criterion blu-ray of Eraserhead proved that that film still has the incredibly uncanny ability to seep out into and infect any room it which it is shown. More recently, Von Trier's Antichrist and Melancholia work nicely, overall.

Krautrock - see 41/43, etc above. Eno - depends. "Another Green World" and "Fripp and Eno" surely. "Taking Tiger Mountain" not so much - although I do love that album.

84JeromeJ
feb 4, 2015, 3:49 pm

Medlemmem har stängts av.

85artturnerjr
feb 4, 2015, 7:01 pm

>75 semdetenebre: ff.

Love Goblin's Dawn of the Dead soundtrack. Requiem for a Dream was so successful at achieving the effect that Aronofsky was going after that, great film that it was (and I really do think it's one of the very finest films I've ever seen), I don't think I ever want to see it again. Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports (http://youtu.be/5KGMo9yOaSU) is currently the second most played album on my iPod (after Black Flag's The First Four Years). Love pretty much everything that Robert Fripp has ever done (King Crimson, collaborations with Eno, collaborations with Andy Summers - you name it). Not sure what the most disturbing film I've ever seen is, but the first time I watched Chinatown I couldn't move for about fifteen minutes after it ended.

86artturnerjr
mar 10, 2015, 8:43 pm

Folding laundry last night when this three minute and three second slice of pure sonic gorgeousness came up on shuffle on my iPod. The central motif of dreaming (and John Lennon's bemusement at the self-importance of humanity) made me think of HPL and his Dreamlands; a tribute from one dreamer to another, if you will. When I'm in the middle of a dream/Stay in bed, float upstream...

http://youtu.be/1MMDugt8ZRk

87defaults
Redigerat: mar 26, 2017, 3:53 pm

I thought I'd bump this because I unexpectedly ran into a beautiful bit of vintage cosmic horror in classical music. This is the final piece of Gustav Holst's last song cycle, to poems by Humbert Wolfe, published in 1929:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ZhwHXvViM

On Betelgeuse the gold leaves hang in golden aisles
For twice a hundred million miles,
And twice a hundred million years
They golden hang and nothing stirs,
On Betelgeuse.

Space is a wind that does not blow
On Betelgeuse and time is a bird,
Whose wings have never stirred
The golden avenues of leaves
On Betelgeuse.

On Betelgeuse there is nothing that joys or grieves
The unstirred multitude of leaves,
Nor ghost of evil or good
Haunts the gold multitude
On Betelgeuse.

And birth they do not use
Nor death on Betelgeuse,
And the God, of whom we are infinite dust,
Is there a single leaf of those gold leaves
On Betelgeuse.

88semdetenebre
Redigerat: mar 26, 2017, 11:29 pm

>87 defaults:

Fantastic, and haunting. Thanks!

Here is a fairly vast selection of Tangerine Dream:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3Pke412qVfzaVBwCctfojgDxI5opVf6

89paradoxosalpha
mar 27, 2017, 7:15 am

>87 defaults:

That Wolfe poem looks like it could have been the model for "Cassilda's Song" in most of the versions I've encountered!

90semdetenebre
jan 31, 2018, 3:12 pm

Interesting article about the late Mark E Smith, singer for The Fall, and his penchant for weird fiction.

https://lovecraftzine.com/2018/01/30/mark-e-smith-post-punk-icon-and-lifelong-ac...

91semdetenebre
mar 29, 2019, 8:39 am

AZATHOTH

Mindless Demon
Ruling in absolute chaos
Human minds cannot believe
Fractured rainbows
Circling deep in the darkness
Bright red trails of pain
Azathoth the Mighty
Centre of confusion
Ruler of the dead beneath the Sea of Clouds
Evil blind things
Ruling in absolute darkness
Fighting forever
Weeping, gnashing
Falling in utter confusion
Fire and chaos thrive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zC-1fRKd8

92elenchus
mar 29, 2019, 10:58 am

>91 semdetenebre:

I was expecting Black Metal or grindcore or something, the Krautrock was unexpected.

93semdetenebre
Redigerat: mar 29, 2019, 11:33 am

>92 elenchus:

I think the whole album is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRW8bkl33yU

Arzachel was also Uriel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriel_(band)

(copy n paste it).

94housefulofpaper
dec 29, 2019, 6:52 pm

A couple of interesting podcasts I've discovered recently.

"Bone and Sickle" in which Al Ridenour explores the intersections of horror, folklore and history, started in April 2018. So far I've listened to just the first three episodes, covering Walpurgisnacht, and the cuckoo.

"Voluminous: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft" is a new podcast from the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, in which Sean Branney and Andrew Leman read, and then explicate/discuss, one of HPL's letters.