GOBLIN Suspiria LP

GOBLIN Suspiria LP

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

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   I've been wanting to stock the pre-1990 Goblin soundtracks ever since Crucial Blast first opened it's doors, but those releases (mostly issued through an Italian label that has never had any kind of decent distribution here in the U.S.) have continued to elude me for over a decade. Until now. Now that the venerable Italian prog rock band has begun to tour the U.S. for the first time in their forty-plus year career and enjoying an ever-growing audience of old-school Euro horror junkies, dark prog fanatics, and younger fans of classic analogue synthesizer music, their releases are finally becoming more accessible, at least on vinyl.
    Best known for the music that was produced during their nearly decade-long collaboration with Italian horror director Dario Argento through the 70s and 80s, Goblin's career was kicked off with three albums of some of the best dark prog ever released. The band's debut album Roller and their first two soundtracks for Argento, Profondo Rosso and Suspiria are utter classics of vintage, spooky prog, and have had a far-reaching influence over the decades that has even reached into the realms of industrial music, black metal, and experimental electronic music. It's hard to say if Goblin's popularity would ever have reached the heights that is has if it weren't for the fact that so much of their music is inextricably linked to the nightmarish, surrealistic visions of Argento, but more than almost any other soundtrack artist, Goblin's music is often capable of offering a compelling listening experience even when heard all on their own, separated from the scenes of dreamlike horror and graphic violence that inspired them. Most of the Goblin catalog has been released on the Italian prog rock reissue label AMS, and we've finally been able to get our hands on a bunch of these classic albums, with some of them actually now appearing on vinyl for the first time ever...
   Long out of print on vinyl, Goblin's legendary score to Dario Argento's Suspiria is now back on wax via this new 2014 edition released by Italian label AMS. A masterpiece of phantasmal black prog, Suspiria is one of those horror movie soundtracks that can exist all on its own, separated from Argento's nightmarish pitch-black fairytale (though obviously its most powerful when entwined with those visuals). Even when removed frm the filn, Goblin's score becomes one of the creepiest and most devilish prog rock albums ever, mixing together witchy folk melodies and pulsating analogue electronics and some seriously disturbing percussive sounds alongside the band's inspired use of bouzuki and tabla, crafting the weird, otherworldly vibe that courses throughout Suspiria with an array of Moog synths, Mellotron, organs, and piano used to deepen the music's rich black shadows.
    The Lp opens, of course, with what might be Goblin's finest and freakiest sounding composition ever, the chiming bells and hideous, murderous whispers of the Suspiria theme, that booming detuned drum reverberating beneath the band's black-forest psychedelia, an instantly recognizable melody spinning out oh-so-eerily over the swirling circular arrangement, making for one of the most evocative and mysterious horror movie themes you'll ever hear. Then there's the delirious operatic frenzy of "Witch", fearsome ululating shrieks rising over the scattered drumming and blasts of majestic synth and choral chant, warped bass lines coiling malevolently around the seemingly random percussive clatter and piercing electronics. Deeper in, Goblin unveil the weird detuned funk of "Sighs", and "Markos" offers an energetic blend of Fabio Pignatelli's signature burbling bass sound and frantic percussion and swirling electronics that almost feel like something from a Terry Riley recording. "Black Forest" offers a haunting saxophone performance alongside resonant acoustic guitars, deep fretless bass and eerie synthesizer textures for one of the soundtrack's most sumptuous pieces; even the funkier jazz-rock of tracks like "Blind Concert" works here terrifically, adding to the already hallucinatory feel of the film. The whole soundtrack is infested with ghostly wailing and strange atmospheric shadings, ecstatic voices rising in harmony, bursts of searing acid guitar and fuzz-drenched hard rock chords, washes of nocturnal jazziness and deranged distorto-rock crunch, the whole soundtrack whipping up visions of midnight bacchanals and secret sacrificial rites and, of course, walking corpses under the thrall of ancient black magic. One of the finest albums of nightmarish prog rock ever, can't recommend it enough.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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