GOBLIN / KEITH EMERSON La Chiesa LP

GOBLIN / KEITH EMERSON La Chiesa LP

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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
      The latest reissue of cult 80's spookprog, this hodgepodge of a score had producer Dario Argento and director Michele Soavi bringing back Keith Emerson (who had previously worked with Argento on Inferno), with the rest of the material produced by an iteration of Goblin that's really just founding member Fabio Pignatelli working solo. Still some team-up, though. The result is a little uneven, but it's also deliriously over-the-top. In fact, La Chiesa still ranks as one of my own favorite Italian horror scores from the late 80s, although to be fair, that's can probably be chalked up to nostalgia, as this videocassette barely ever left my VCR in 1990. Despite Argento's attachment, La Chiesa (released in the USA as The Church) never found much of an audience outside of hardcore Euro-horror circles, but it's a terrific example of batshit-crazy Italo horror, an apocalyptic, gothic nightmare possessed with Soavi's unique directorial flair, loaded amazing Satanic imagery (like that glorious Baphometic basement sex ritual) and a handful of chunkblowing gore scenes that rank amongst the nastiest of the era.
      It's a lush, ornate score that uses pipe organ and harpsichord sounds prominently, and both Emerson and Pignateli take off in some interesting and divergent directions. Emerson's material includes the booming, gothic drama of the main theme, a reworking of a Bach solo piece, and a couple of tracks of dark prog built around pounding drum samples, obtuse rhythmic riffing and complex layered synths. In contrast, the Goblin/Pignateli tracks mostly consist of slow, moody synthesizer dirges swept with choral voices and their signature synth arpeggios, kicking into the occasional killer electronic grooves, along with weirdly spooky bossa nova sequences flecked with sickly dissonance, and passages of pulsating, swirling minimalism that nod towards Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi. Compared to the frenzied jazz-rock madness of early Goblin, this stuff feels more informed by what John Carpenter was doing at the time, but some of their signature moves show up, like the whispered voices in "Possessione" that recalls their classic Suspiria.
      Not as crucial as Emerson's awesome Inferno score or those classic earlier Goblin records, but this reissue still offers up a highly enjoyable blast of creepy, baroque prog that'll definitely be of interest to fans of Italian horror-synth and devotees of Soavi's film. Hardcore collectors will also want to note that this new release includes two bonus tracks (“Suspence chiesa 1” and “2”) that were not featured in the original 1989 vinyl release.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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