DON PEAKE The Hills Have Eyes (1977) OST LP

DON PEAKE The Hills Have Eyes (1977) OST LP

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

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Definitely one of my favorite recently reissued horror scores, Don Peake's soundtrack for the original Hills Have Eyes has been dug up and dusted off for the first time in years, and it's still one of the weirder and more experimental scores that came out of that classic grindhouse era. Newly reissued by Belgian label One Way Static Records on deluxe limited-edition LP (beautifully packaged in a case-wrapped gatefold jacket with a full-color insert featuring liner notes from cast and crew) and as killer throwback audio cassette edition, both versions appear to already be sold out at the source, so move quick if you want to get either one of these.
   Would you believe that this creeped-out, experimental soundscape was created by the same guy that did the Knight Rider theme? It's kind of surprising that something this bleak and disturbing came from a former guitarist for The Everly Brothers, but Don Peake had turned into a respected film composer after he left the world of session work, and he stepped way outside of the box for this project. Peake's score for Hills was an intensely creepy assemblage of sounds that were perfectly suited for Wes Craven's brutal visuals. The story of a modern suburban family under assault from a band of cannibalistic cavemen lurking in the foothills of the Nevada desert, this 1977 film helped to usher in a new wave of ultra-violence onto the American cinematic landscape. To help build the atmosphere of dread and imminent death that hangs over the film like a radioactive cloud, Peake blended together elements of Penderecki-influenced modern classical composition, instrumental 70's-era funk, primitive synthesizer noise, and bestial, free improv percussive freakouts that give the action sequences an increasingly chaotic and desperate feel. And to help add to the stark, barbaric vibe, Peake used animal bones (the same ones worn by the vicious desert cannibals in the film) as percussive instruments to create the ritualistic rattling found all throughout the soundtrack. On it's own, The Hills Have Eyes score almost sounds like some bizarre ESP-Disc release; the very first track is a short dose of mutant caveman funk rattling over grinding synths, followed by similar weird jazziness, frantic hand-drum rhythms and swirls of queasy synthesizers, more of that crazed mutant funk made up of wah-drenched electric guitar and those clattering animal bones, then later shifting into more sinister synth-based dronescapes and murky, ominous electronics. The synthesizer parts could easily pass for some primitive early industrial outfit or primitive dark ambient project, swells of minimal discordant synth and warped electronic noise and rushes of shrill screaming theremin. There's also some really effective short works for strings, percussion and piano that summon up gusts of evil discordant atmosphere that are almost Bartókian, often combined with those skin-crawling squirming synth noises. A classic slab of avant-garde horror composition and barbaric death-prog.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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