JOHN HARRISON Creepshow LP

JOHN HARRISON Creepshow LP

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(Waxwork)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   Now sold out from the label, Waxwork's recent vinyl reissue for the classic early 80's horror anthology Creepshow is one of the most eye-popping LPs of 2014, resurrecting John Harrison's fantastical score in a visually stunning package with bold, colorful artwork and a killer jacket design. But just having this music available again after being out of print for years was cause enough for joy. One of two scores Harrison created for George Romero (the other being 1985's Day Of The Dead), Creepshow is both whimsical and malevolent, in keeping with the film's humorously twisted homage to the classic EC horror comics of the 1950s. Harrison created unique cues for each story in the anthology, and combined classical and Gothic elements with a very 80's electronic undercurrent to capture the nostalgic feel of those vintage horror comics.
   The score is a mixture of sinister synthesizer and piano pieces, creepy music-box orchestrations and ominous Moog drones, the movie's eerie main theme imbued with a Gothic flair that is somewhat comparable to some of Danny Elfman's darker stuff. In particular, the main theme and closing piece "Until Next Time" really reminiscent of Elfman's theme for the Tales From The Crypt television series, which was still years away from production. The score is fleshed out with numerous short pieces that move from dissonant minimal synth textures to the amusingly romantic piano arrangements for "Something To Tide You Over", washes of warped kosmische glow and pulses of almost Carpenterian menace, strains of funerary organ and keening high-end synth melodies; you can hear echoes of the kind of spacey synth that Tangerine Dream and Vangelis were infusing their soundtracks with, but there's also a lot of textural nods to the creepy soundtracks of Golden Era television as well, and Harrison incorporated primitive electronic effects to achieve some of these throwback sounds. It's all primarily keyboard based, using a variety of piano, electronic and organ tones, laced with some key sound effects from the film. For many, the most disturbing part of the soundtrack is the music for the infamous roach-swarm horror of "They're Creeping Up On You", which consists of the score's most abstract material, a series of atonal electronic pieces that were a perfect accompaniment for the story's grotesque scenes of an insectile invasion of the most intimate kind. A genuinely classic 80's horror score.
    The album features extensive liner notes from Harrison and director George Romero, pressed on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a gorgeous heavyweight casewrapped jacket that features stunning new artwork from Gary Pullin, with printed inserts bound book-style into the jacket that feature extensive liner notes, artwork and production stills, and a satin-coated 12" by 12" art print commissioned exclusively for this release.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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