FOUNTAIN, THE (CLINT MANSELL / MOGWAI / KRONOS QUARTET) OST (Nonesuch) cd 17.98
The latest Darren Aronofsky film The Fountain has been eagerly anticipated by many folks around here (we dug his previous works Pi and Requiem For A Dream). Haven't had a chance to go to the theater yet, but we have had a chance to hear the movie's soundtrack which sparkles with its own magical light. It is a particularly nice surprise because it features new recordings by Mogwai and Kronos Quartet. They're performing compositions penned by Clint Mansell. Now, they couldn't help but be anything but a perfect musical fit for Aronofsky's visual splendor, could they? That said, this album is somberly wonderful all on its own. Close your eyes and sink in. Sweepingly epic and intricate and absolutely moving. A must for fans of both groups.
MPEG Stream: "The Last Man"
MPEG Stream: "Tree Of Life"

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (OST) (Universal) cd 15.98
Hey all you Explosions In The Sky fans!! Listing this 'cause it's in danger of being overlooked... Here's an album worthy of being simply an EITS release, not just a soundtrack for a movie (the packaging of which fails to offer them obvious credit even though it's their work). Just know that this is a little more filmic than their regular releases, and appropriately so. Very lovely indeed!
MPEG Stream: "From West Texas"
MPEG Stream: "Your Hand In Mine (w/ Strings)"

FRITH, FRED Eye To Ear (Tzadik) cd 15.98
"Famous as an improviser and a rock guitarist (Henry Cow, Art Bears, Residents, Massacre, Skeleton Crew), Fred Frith is still highly under-rated as a composer. Since relocating to Germany in the early 90s, Frith has composed soundtracks for a number of films and has chosen his finest for his first Tzadik release.

FRITH, FRED Rivers And Tides - Working With Time (Winter & Winter) cd 16.98
You probably know artist Andy Goldsworthy -- the British 'sculptor' (I guess you'd call him a sculptor?) who works with materials found in the natural environment, creating amazing pieces constructed from leaves or sticks or rocks or ice, on site? If not, check out his books -- for his works often exist only long enough to be photographed -- they're certainly some of the best, widely available volumes to hit the coffee tables of the world in recent years. Last year, a beautiful, beautiful documentary film called Rivers And Tides took viewers into Goldsworthy's world. Hopefully you saw it. When that film was basically taking over San Francisco (it was at the Roxie for a loooong time), we got many requests for the soundtrack, which didn't yet exist. We knew though that if it ever did come out, we'd sell a ton. Composed by the amazing Mr. Fred Frith, it was a big part of the film's appeal, no mean feat considering that the visuals were so great already. And now at last, we're happy to announce, here it is, the highly anticipated soundtrack to Rivers And Tides. And yes, it is as good as you remember it -- not some uninspired background music this! The album draws you in immediately, the main melodic theme slipping out effortlessly within the first 30 seconds of the album and repeated throughout. Running water gives way to highpitched soprano sax only to be subsumed under the surface of Frith's calm, stilling guitar, plucked Brazilian berimbao, and other, droning ethnic instrumentation. Tension and calm ebb and flow like, er, the tide. The reed instruments interweave, sprightly and evocative. Even if you haven't seen the film, this soundtrack rates as major highlight of one of our favorite experimental composer's ouevre. Highly, highly recommended!
The packaging is also gorgeous as per Winter & Winter's norm, with heavy duty digipak, letterpressed cover, and full color multipanelled foldouts of Goldworthy's works.
MPEG Stream: "Part I"
MPEG Stream: "Part III"
MPEG Stream: "Part IV"

FRIZZI, FABIO The Beyond (OST) (Dagored) cd 14.98
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The soundtrack to one of my favorite movies of all time, Fulci's gross out masterpiece 'The Beyond'. And Frizzi's score is up to the mighty task of musically keeping up. Dark and a bit Goblin-esque and truly creepy. And surprisingly, it never stumbles into cheesy jazz-fusion territory (ala the occasional Goblin soundtrack). Essential, but not nearly as essential as running out and seeing it (again)!
RealAudio clip: "Verso L'ignoto"

FRIZZI, FABIO The Beyond (OST) (Dagored) lp 14.98
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The soundtrack to one of my favorite movies of all time, Fulci's gross out masterpiece 'The Beyond'. And Frizzi's score is up to the mighty task of musically keeping up. Dark and a bit Goblin-esque and truly creepy. And surprisingly, it never stumbles into cheesy jazz-fusion territory (ala the occasional Goblin soundtrack). Essential, but not nearly as essential as running out and seeing it (again)!

FRIZZI, FABIO The Beyond OST (Mondo) lp 23.00
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FRIZZI, FABIO Zombi 2 OST (Death Waltz ) lp 30.00

FUGAZI Instrument Soundtrack (Dischord) cd 10.98
The soundtrack to the 10 years in the making Fugazi documentary! Demos, etc.

FUGAZI Instrument Soundtrack (Dischord) lp 9.98
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The soundtrack to the 10 years in the making Fugazi documentary! Demos, etc.

FUSCO, GIOVANNI Music For Michelangelo Antonioni (Water) cd 16.98

GAME OF DEATH (JOHN BARRY) OST (Dagored) lp 15.98
Now reissued on vinyl, John "James Bond" Barry's score to this ill-fated Bruce Lee Kung Fu flick. You know, the one were he takes on Chuck Norris. Probably best known as the movie that was shelved when Bruce Lee died. Finally released in 1978 with someone else filling in for Lee, they kept a handful of the original scenes with Lee as a selling point for what would otherwise have been a commercially unsucessful movie. And the soundtrack also helps! The music is classic Barry, alternately soaring and triumphant, tense and suspenseful. Also features an awesome six minute track called "Stick Fight" which is just that, six minutes of fight sounds complete with Lee's legendary vocalisations! Good stuff, up there with Lalo Schifrin's soundtrack to Enter The Dragon.

GAME OF DEATH / NIGHT GAMES (OST) (Silva) cd 16.98
This is a collection of two of John Barry's most unlikely scores. The first is for Bruce Lee's Game of Death. You know, the one were he takes on Chuck Norris. Probably best known as the movie that was shelved when Bruce Lee died. Finally released with a new star, they kept a handful of the original scenes with Lee as a selling point for a then otherwise unsellable movie. The music is classic Barry, alternately soaring and triumphant, tense and suspenseful. Also features an awesome 6 minute track called 'Stick Fight' which is just that, 6 minutes of fight sounds complete with Lee's legendary vocalisations! Good stuff. The second film, Night Games is even stranger. A "sex fantasy" that was apparently a massive flop. Barry's tracks are treacly and bittersweet, with occasional jaunty strings and choral passages. Nice stuff as well. Definitely makes me want to see Game Of Death again, but also I'm now dying to see Night Games!
MPEG Stream: "Main Title / Set Fight With Chuck Norris"
MPEG Stream: "Three Motorcycles / Stick Fight With Santo"

GARDEN STATE (OST) (Sony) cd 13.98
While none of us here at AQ have seen the movie thus far, we sure do like a bunch of the artists who grace this soundtrack -- The Shins ("New Slang" and "Caring Is Creepy" - one song from each of their two albums), Nick Drake ("One Of These Things First" originally from his album Bryter Layter), Iron & Wine (their excellent cover version of SubPop labelmates Postal Service's song "Such Great Heights" which also appeared on the PS's ep of the same name)! That's the up-side of this compilation. The down-side is that, as you can see, they're all previously released songs. Dagnabbit! In case you didn't already guess, many of the songs are of that teen-movie-perfect mopey sensitive boy variety. Also included are Coldplay, Zero7, Thievery Corporation, Colin Hay (psst... in case you didn't know, he's the ex-lead singer for Men At Work), Cary Brothers, Remy Zero, Frou Frou, the very Jewel-sounding Bonnie Somerville and some duo called Simon & Garfunkel.
MPEG Stream: REMY ZERO "Fair"
MPEG Stream: THIEVERY CORPORATION "Lebanese Blonde"

GARDINER, BORIS Every Nigger Is A Star (Jazzman) cd 17.98

GARDINER, BORIS Every Nigger Is A Star (Jazzman) lp 28.00

GAYE, MARVIN Trouble Man OST (Motown) cd 5.98
This is not only one of our favorite blaxploitation soundtracks, it may also be one our favorite Marvin Gaye Record too (though I Want You may be a close second). While the movie itself might be rather unremarkable, the soundtrack stands apart from its more well known contemporaries, like SuperFly and Shaft by focusing less on a hard hitting urban funk grit and more on a cool detached noir vibe that somehow feels more menacing. Mostly everything is performed and arranged by Gaye, with Moog synths, piano and saxophone being the main instruments. There is of course some wah wah-ed guitar in the theme, but its low-key laid back swing seems to illustrate a more plausible reality for the title character, one of reserved violence as opposed to say, Isaac Hayes' uptempo go-get-'em macho swagger for Shaft. Still, there is plenty of urban grit. The tense set-ups of "'T' Stands for Trouble" and "The Break In", the pensive ambiance of "Deep-In-It", the love themes tinged with sadness, and the troubled vocal harmonies of "Cleo's Apartment" and "Life Is A Gamble". But the topper of them all is "'T' Plays It Cool", a stone cold groove that is deadly as it is funky. All killer, No filler! So happy it's now been reissued on vinyl - and we got the bargain-priced cd version in stock as well.
MPEG Stream: "Trouble Man"
MPEG Stream: "'T' Plays It Cool"
MPEG Stream: "'T' Stands For Trouble"
MPEG Stream: "The Break In (Police Shoot Big)"

GAYE, MARVIN Trouble Man OST (Motown) lp 12.98
This is not only one of our favorite blaxploitation soundtracks, it may also be one our favorite Marvin Gaye Record too (though I Want You may be a close second). While the movie itself might be rather unremarkable, the soundtrack stands apart from its more well known contemporaries, like SuperFly and Shaft by focusing less on a hard hitting urban funk grit and more on a cool detached noir vibe that somehow feels more menacing. Mostly everything is performed and arranged by Gaye, with Moog synths, piano and saxophone being the main instruments. There is of course some wah wah-ed guitar in the theme, but its low-key laid back swing seems to illustrate a more plausible reality for the title character, one of reserved violence as opposed to say, Isaac Hayes' uptempo go-get-'em macho swagger for Shaft. Still, there is plenty of urban grit. The tense set-ups of "'T' Stands for Trouble" and "The Break In", the pensive ambiance of "Deep-In-It", the love themes tinged with sadness, and the troubled vocal harmonies of "Cleo's Apartment" and "Life Is A Gamble". But the topper of them all is "'T' Plays It Cool", a stone cold groove that is deadly as it is funky. All killer, No filler! So happy it's now been reissued on vinyl - and we got the bargain-priced cd version in stock as well.
MPEG Stream: "Trouble Man"
MPEG Stream: "'T' Plays It Cool"
MPEG Stream: "'T' Stands For Trouble"
MPEG Stream: "The Break In (Police Shoot Big)"

GENGHIS BLUES (OST) (Six Degrees) cd 16.98
We had this before and sold many, but it was always difficult to re-stock 'cause it was being sold by the Tuva Foundation themselves, not a record label. But sad we are no more, because it's just been re-issued on San Francisco-based "world music" label Six Degrees (home of DJ Cheb I Sabbah and Bebel Gilberto!). For those of you new to this, Genghis Blues is the soundtrack to the fabulous documentary movie (of the same name). Blind San Francisco blues musician Paul Pena travels to Tuva (Central Asia) to compete in their national throat-singing competition, a skill in which he is entirely self-taught! A funny, touching movie, and of course blessed with some great music. Lots of blues, lots of throat singing and even throat singing blues, plus some Cuban son-esque tracks.
RealAudio clip: "Sunezin Yry"
RealAudio clip: "Kargyraa Moan "

GERE, DON Werewolves On Wheels (OST) (B-Music / Finders Keepers) cd 16.98
It'd normally be enough that Finders Keepers / B-Music decided to reissue a soundtrack, we'd assume it was awesome just 'cause they gave it their stamp of approval. That's true. But this one, though, well how could it NOT be good, with that title/concept?? Awesome music aside, heck we wanna see the movie. Werewolves On Wheels, for reals? As one of the radio adverts included here as a bonus track puts it: "Here comes the most eerie, the most chilling, the most terrifying motorcycle horror film ever made... Werewolves On Wheels - in color - is the most unusual bizarre film yet... Werewolves On Wheels is the ghoulish story of a wild motorcycle gang lost in the desert, mocking the supernatural... one by one they die... unnatural unbelievable deaths... they are afraid of nothing but they cannot fight what they cannot see and do not understand!" Sounds good, doesn't it? As lovers of another Satanic psychedelic '70s motorcycle horror film, Psychomania, we're sold. And like Psychomania, this has a way cool soundtrack. Which can also be filed alongside another biker B-Music release, Billy Green's Stone OST.
This 1971 low budget chiller thriller's "Main Theme" is 5+ minutes of percussive rhythms adorned with flashes of fuzz guitar, simple and effective, as hypnotic as it is haunting. Groovy! That's followed by the hippie country rock of "Mount Shasta Home", and there's another cool slice of country tonk later on with "One Foot In Heaven", but the majority of the soundtrack is devoted to more abstract, weirdly stumbling, atmospheric stuff, perhaps trying to evoke a tripped out Native American desert vibe, with ringing and rattling and what sounds like wrasslin'... there's sudden stabs of synth and the occasional line of campy movie dialog. Several of the tracks (the three spooky "Ritual" ones in particular) could be sinister krautrock jams, full of thumping hand drums, crackling fire, and synthesizer sounds. Other tracks are more groovadelic, yet creepy too, with propulsive rhythms, acid guitar licks, droning FX, and of course revving motorcycle engines and screams of terror.
For all we know, the movie, the directorial debut of Roger Corman/Russ Meyer associate Michel Levesque, isn't even so bad it's good. But the soundtrack, it's for sure fantastic! If The Byrds had teamed up with Goblin to do a soundtrack, maybe this is what the results would have sounded like!?! We're also reminded of Ry Cooder's Cyleib People - if they jammed with Sylvester Anfang, perhaps. The label suggests a Sandy Bull/Amon Duul team up, and we won't argue with that idea either. Another winner - of course - from the Finders Keepers folks!!
MPEG Stream: "Werewolves On Wheels (Main Theme)"
MPEG Stream: "Ritual 2"
MPEG Stream: "One Foot In Heaven"
MPEG Stream: "Burning Grass"

GERE, DON Werewolves On Wheels (OST) (B-Music / Finders Keepers) lp 25.00
Now at long last we've got the import vinyl version of this rad record, too!!
It'd normally be enough that Finders Keepers / B-Music decided to reissue a soundtrack, we'd assume it was awesome just 'cause they gave it their stamp of approval. That's true. But this one, though, well how could it NOT be good, with that title/concept?? Awesome music aside, heck we wanna see the movie. Werewolves On Wheels, for reals? As one of the radio adverts included here as a bonus track puts it: "Here comes the most eerie, the most chilling, the most terrifying motorcycle horror film ever made... Werewolves On Wheels - in color - is the most unusual bizarre film yet... Werewolves On Wheels is the ghoulish story of a wild motorcycle gang lost in the desert, mocking the supernatural... one by one they die... unnatural unbelievable deaths... they are afraid of nothing but they cannot fight what they cannot see and do not understand!" Sounds good, doesn't it? As lovers of another Satanic psychedelic '70s motorcycle horror film, Psychomania, we're sold. And like Psychomania, this has a way cool soundtrack. Which can also be filed alongside another biker B-Music release, Billy Green's Stone OST.
This 1971 low budget chiller thriller's "Main Theme" is 5+ minutes of percussive rhythms adorned with flashes of fuzz guitar, simple and effective, as hypnotic as it is haunting. Groovy! That's followed by the hippie country rock of "Mount Shasta Home", and there's another cool slice of country tonk later on with "One Foot In Heaven", but the majority of the soundtrack is devoted to more abstract, weirdly stumbling, atmospheric stuff, perhaps trying to evoke a tripped out Native American desert vibe, with ringing and rattling and what sounds like wrasslin'... there's sudden stabs of synth and the occasional line of campy movie dialog. Several of the tracks (the three spooky "Ritual" ones in particular) could be sinister krautrock jams, full of thumping hand drums, crackling fire, and synthesizer sounds. Other tracks are more groovadelic, yet creepy too, with propulsive rhythms, acid guitar licks, droning FX, and of course revving motorcycle engines and screams of terror.
For all we know, the movie, the directorial debut of Roger Corman/Russ Meyer associate Michel Levesque, isn't even so bad it's good. But the soundtrack, it's for sure fantastic! If The Byrds had teamed up with Goblin to do a soundtrack, maybe this is what the results would have sounded like!?! We're also reminded of Ry Cooder's Cyleib People - if they jammed with Sylvester Anfang, perhaps. The label suggests a Sandy Bull/Amon Duul team up, and we won't argue with that comparison either. Another winner - of course - from the Finders Keepers folks!!
MPEG Stream: "Werewolves On Wheels (Main Theme)"
MPEG Stream: "Ritual 2"
MPEG Stream: "One Foot In Heaven"
MPEG Stream: "Burning Grass"

GERRARD, LISA The Whale Rider (OST) (4AD) cd 14.98
Lisa Gerrard's soundtrack to the movie The Whale Rider glides and cascades gorgeously. So wonderfully moving regardless of whether or not you've seen the film. It's a finely composed, predominantly instrumental album but one that's laced quite effectively with her ethereal voice. With it's lustrous harp sounds and delicate piano melodies, it very easily could be found filed in the New Age section of some record stores simply towering over the rest of the flock. A soothing delight for any Dead Can Dance fan.
MPEG Stream: "Biking Home"
MPEG Stream: "Go Forward"

GERRARD, LISA & JEFF RONA A Thousand Roads (OST) (Wide Blue Sky) cd 15.98
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More gorgeous worldly film score work from Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard! Following up her fine compositions for Whale Rider, Ms Gerrard joins Jeff Rona in scoring the soundtrack for A Thousand Roads. Needless to say, she's definitely found her (second?) calling. On its own without the film's visual accompaniment, the soundtrack's numerous diverse voices, woodwind and string arrangements and haunting drones make for a deeply moving 'of the earth' listening experience. Sure to please fans of her solo work as well as those of Dead Can Dance. Guests include John Trudell, R. Carlos Nakai, Ulali, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Primeaux & Mike.
MPEG Stream: "Coming To Barrow"
MPEG Stream: "A Healer's Life"

GET CARTER (OST) (Castle) cd 24.00
An absolutely amazing movie and a really cool, albeit peculiar soundtrack, GET CARTER has been a holy grail of sorts, kind of like the Wicker Man. British dance artists (Stereolab among others) have been borrowing heavily from and flat out covering the theme from Get Carter for the last couple years, and the original has finally been reissued (but as an import only, unfortunately). It's a nice package with tons of liner notes and lots of photos from the film. The cd has way more stuff than we remember being in the movie, as well as lots of dialogue. It's an import, hence the steep price. The sound? Some cool sixties spy jazz, some loungey Bond-ish exotica, some hippyish folk rock. Plus, it comes with a poster!

GET CARTER OST (Silva Screen) cd 13.98
Finally one of our favorite soundtracks, from one of our favorite movies, available again, this time without the crazy steep import price. For those in the know, Roy Budd's soundtrack to Get Carter has always been a sonic holy grail of sorts, kind of like the Wicker Man. British dance artists (Stereolab among others) have been borrowing heavily from and flat out covering the theme from Get Carter for years, and the original has always been tough to track down or crazy expensive, or both, until now.
Just like the import, this version is pretty sweet too, with loads of photos, tons of liner notes, interviews, ruminations on the music, the composer, the director, as well as notes on the making of the film.
But it's the music that counts, and the music is incredible, from sixties spy jazz to loungey Bond-ish exotica to hippyish folk rock to groovy seventies funk, the main Get Carter theme is immediately recognizable, that repeating motif, haunting and sexy and mysterious. The rest of the record manages to be super catchy, yet weirdly confounding, super eclectic and peculiar, flitting from jangly pop song to soundtracky string laden shimmer to woozy druggy groove to over the top showtune style croon to crunchy almost hard rock to classical piano to gorgeous cinematic ambience. If that wasn't enough, all the tracks are separated by short snippets of dialogue, super intense, Michael Caine is a monster, if you've seen the move you know, he's so intense, freaking out, violent and scary, brooding and BAD ASS.
Needless to say, SO recommended. By the soundtrack, and if you haven't already, see the movie!
MPEG Stream: "Main Theme - Carter Takes A Train"
MPEG Stream: "Looking For Someone"
MPEG Stream: "Hallucinations"

GHOST WORLD (OST) (Shanachie) cd 16.98
If you've seen the movie, this soundtrack will provide you with an accurate musical instant replay. Almost like a scene by scene summary even. If you haven't, well then, it's a great eccentric and eclectic mishmash of tunes. Sort of running like a mixtape you'd make for a dear friend. Many songs ring with a fond familiarity -- notably the first track by Mohammed Rafi as it was included on the "Doob Doob A Rama: Filmsongs From Bollywood" compilation that's been a fave here at AQ. Other ol' tyme stuff includes Lionel Belasco, Vince Giordano And The Nighthawks, and Skip James.
RealAudio clip: LIONEL BELASCO "Miranda"
RealAudio clip: SKIP JAMES "Devil Got My Woman"
RealAudio clip: DAVID KITAY "Theme From Ghost World"

GIRL IN THE BIKINI, THE OST (El Records) cd 16.98

GLASS, PHILIP Koyaanisqatsi (OST) (Orange Mountain Music) cd 21.00
Philip Glass's first commercial success and enduring classic soundtrack is available once again and in its original completed form (76 minutes) for the first time on cd. Glass's score to Godfrey Reggio's sublime 1983 film, Koyaanisqatsi (the Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance") is a perfect marriage to the film's altered time sequences of fast-moving clouds and sped-up machine-like urban scenes of traffic and city-life. The repetitive arpeggios and slowly undulating shifts of patterned movements give off the sensation of static motion enhancing the film's captivating majestic qualities. But even without the visuals, the score by itself stands the test of time, and its longer unabbreviated format renews the film's pointed silent protest against the out-of-control pace and shortened attention spans of our so-called civilization. Recommended!
MPEG Stream: "Koyannisqatsi"
MPEG Stream: "Resource"
MPEG Stream: "Vessels"

GOBLIN Amo Non Amo (Cinevox) cd 16.98
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Released in the USA as "Together" and in Italy as "Amo Non Amo", this soundtrack to the film starring Terence Stamp and Jacqueline Bisset was originally scored by Burt Bacharach (now that I'd like to hear!) For the Italian version Goblin, masters of horror film soundtracks, were commissioned. Yikes. Goblin doing a romantic comedy score in 1979 is not my favorite Goblin style by a long shot. A lot of Guitar ballads and soft numbers, very anonymous and bland. I just love when Goblin is scary and thrilling and this has none of that. Not recommended unless you're a Goblin completist.
RealAudio clip: "Amo Non Amo"
RealAudio clip: "Maniera"

GOBLIN Buio Omega (OST) (Cinevox) cd 16.98

GOBLIN Contamination (OST) (Cinevox) cd 17.98
This is the soundtrack for 1980 Italian movie Contamination directed by Luigi Cozzi. To heighten the tension in the gory scenes and to capture the mood of pure panic towards the end, the director called on the Italian prog mayhem masters, Goblin. You can tell this soundtrack was written in the '80s. There are some out and out Miami Vice / Hill Street Blues sounding riffs. Embarrassing most of the time but a horror soundtrack nonetheless.
RealAudio clip: "Connexion"
RealAudio clip: "Bikini Island"

GOBLIN Il Fantastico Viaggio Del Bagarozzo Mark (Cinevox) cd 23.00
I (Windy) am so so so in love with this record! If you don't have any Goblin records then you want to forgo this temporarily (it's just not typical of their material) and get Suspiria first. But if you already have at least one Goblin album, then get this one now. Of course, at first you had to be a little trepidacious about Il Fantastico Viaggio Del Bagarozzo Mark, released in 1978, for the following reasons: [1] it's one of only two Goblin albums that weren't commissioned as soundtracks (the other being Roller), and [2] it's also supposedly their only album with *vocals*. Coulda crashed and burned if you ask me, but it turns out this album is awesome and the vocals just send it over the top! Massimo Morante's voice is dramatic and urgent yet at the very same time super melodic. And it sort of makes sense that without filmic visuals to provide visible stimulation, the vocals provide just the right amount of narrative "human" element. The songs here are so melodic and hook-filled, with tremendously beautiful minor-key climaxes that really satisfy. So great!
Comes with mpeg footage of the band (in 2001) playing music in the same Cinevox studio where they'd always recorded, and also there's a rare interview where they reveal that much of Il Fantastico Viaggio Del Bagarozzo Mark is about saying no to drugs.
RealAudio clip: "Opera Magnifica"
RealAudio clip: "Le Cascate di Viridiana"
RealAudio clip: "Mark Il Bagarozzo"

GOBLIN Nonhosonno (OST) (Pick Up) cd 18.98
After 22 years Dario Argento and Goblin reunited for this 2000 thriller. The music is as you might expect very Goblinesqe. Despite the technological breakthroughs that have occured since Goblin worked with Argento on such great films as Deep Red, not much has changed in the Goblin camp, with their signature sound intact: mysterious, melodic, dark and scary and proggy.
RealAudio clip: "Endless Love"
RealAudio clip: "Arpeggio-End Title Theme"
RealAudio clip: "The Rabbit"

GOBLIN Patrick (OST) (Cinevox) cd 16.98
The soundtrack for Patrick, a Richard Franklin Film from 1978 (he did Psycho 2 and a few other un-notables) featuring the kings of horror soundtrack prog, Goblin! The film sounds great: a comatose patient named Patrick uses his psychokinetic powers to terrorize the staff of the hospital in which he is confined and there's supposed to be a creepy fucked up ending. The promotional teaser was "Patrick is nearly dead and still he's killing". And while I'm now all psyched to see the film, the soundtrack is sadly Goblin at their worst, which is too bad 'cos Goblin are the *best* at what they do, but this is way later in their career (the eighties); the sound is funky, wanky and cheesy and not really all that scary. Far from the spinechilling eerie prog we've come to expect.
RealAudio clip: "Transmute"
RealAudio clip: "Snip Snap"

GOBLIN Phenomena (OST) (Cinevox) cd 16.98
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Known in the USA as "Creepers", starring Donald Pleasence, written and directed by horror master Dario Argento. This edition features alternate versions of songs *not* used in the film. While the original soundtrack LP of 1985 was a blend of Goblin songs with rock tracks from various other artists, this new disc can be considered the instrumental sequel to that work -- all tracks composed and performed by Goblin, with the addition of 4 movie takes and 11 unissued tracks. The cd starts with a Halloweenesqe riff with far away female vocals. Slowly it evolves into crazy wanking guitar and hectic drums. This soundtrack is eerie and suspenseful, just like the film. A great example of Italian prog rock soundtrack geniuses Goblin.
RealAudio clip: "Phenomena"
RealAudio clip: "Jennifer"
RealAudio clip: "The Wind ("Insects" - Film Versions suite 2)"

GOBLIN Profondo Rosso (Cinevox) lp 14.98
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Spooky '70s Italian prog rockers Goblin are known for their soundtracks to many famous Dario Argento horror films. Here's one of the best, newly reissued on lp. Deep red indeed. Includes the tracks "Death Dies", "Mad Puppet", and "School At Night" among others.

GOBLIN Profondo Rosso (OST) (Cinevox) cd 27.00
Distributed and better known in the USA as "Deep Red", this is the wonderful soundtrack to the beautifully photographed Dario Argento classic. Twenty eight tracks total, this expanded edition features all of Goblin's contributions to the film as well as Giorgio Gaslini's chilling score.

GOBLIN Suspiria (OST) (Cinevox) cd 27.00
This is an older release which we've never listed, due to problems with keeping it in stock. However recently this label has improved its distribution situation, so here we go: Not as beautifully packaged as the recent Dagored LP repress, this cd features those same tracks from Goblin's classic horror-film soundtrack, plus four bonus cuts not featured elsewhere. If you're going to buy one Goblin record, make it this one! If you're going to buy two, however, the Profondo Rosso soundtrack is equally wonderful! Essential!

GOBLIN The Best of Goblin Vol.1 (Cinevox) 2cd 17.98
Everyone's favorite Italian horror-film soundtrack rock band Goblin gets a handsome "best of" treatment on this import double cd. The first disc is the "best of" portion, concentrating on the Goblin's spooky prog-funk contributions to the '70s gore-thriler classics of Dario Argento (with tracks like "Profundo Rosso", "Death Dies", "Tenebre", "Suspiria", "Mad Puppet"...) that will be familiar to fans of the films and/or the band. Now maybe you already have Goblin cds with those tracks (if not, you should, or get this!) but even then true fans will be intrigued by disc two, a live Goblin concert recording from 1979, never before released. The sound quality is ok, and the music of course is great -- and even features a lot of vocals, something normally absent from Goblin's better known soundtrack material!

GOBLIN Zombi (OST) (Cinevox) cd 28.00
This is the 20th Anniversary Special Edition cd from the Lucio Fulci (Argento produced) classic ZOMBI! Features six bonus tracks not featured on the original release...whoops, we screwed up with this description. One of our favorite customers, Jordan Perry, happened to catch our mistake, so we thought we'd just put his whole email about it up here to clarify matters:
"...you list the Goblin soundtrack "Zombi" as being
directed by Fulci. But it's not. And it's a complicated story, so please, bear with me. "Zombi" is actually Argento's Italian cut of
Romero's "Dawn of the Dead." Argento was the producer of the film, and for it's release in Italy, he chose the film to be edited in slightly
different ways than Romero had. Goblin composed a soundtrack, but from my understanding, Romero didn't much like it and only used it sparingly in his cut of the film. Argento, however, I'm guessing used more of Goblin's music in his version, perhaps explaining why this soundtrack is called "Zombi" instead of the much better-known title "Dawn of the Dead." But then there's Fulci's zombie film too, which was called (in Italy) "Zombi 2," likely an attempt to cash in on the success of
Romero's/Argento's film by claiming itself a sequel. For its American release though, it was simply called "Zombie." The chance for
confusion here then is obvious: Fulci's American title is only one letter different from Romero's/Argento's Italian title. Most important in all of this though is that Goblin did NOT compose the soundtrack to Fulci's film. Rather, that was Fulci-regular Fabio Frizzi (The Beyond, City of the Living Dead, Manhattan Baby), and IT is an amazing soundtrack, far better I think than Goblin's for their zombie film, particularly Frizzi's chilling main theme that got me so into horror
soundtracks in the first place (this was about four months ago, and now I've got over 30 horror soundtracks in my collection). And I've been
spending heaps of time renting horror movies of late, that is why I have all these facts down pat. And if you've only heard the soundtrack to Suspiria and not seen the movie, I most highly recommend you do see it. Of the fifteen or so horror movies I have seen in this past month's spree, Suspiria still easily ranks at the top (due in large part to the brilliant Goblin soundtrack for it). So... yeah. Do what you wish with this information."
Thanks Jordan, for all the interesting info. Sorry for our misinformation!

GOG Heavy Fierce Brightness (Sounds Of Battle And Souvenir Collecting) lp 11.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
The latest release from one of our favorite modern masters of drone and drift and doom and dirge, the oddly monikered Gog, who in Heavy Fierce Brightness, has composed two nearly 20 minute epic soundtracks for an art installation of the same name.
But regardless of the inspiration or ultimate application of the sounds contained within, Heavy Fierce Brightness is simply a continuation of Gog's endless sprawling exploration of some grim black space, a hellish otherworld, captured alchemically and represented sonically, a harrowing, harsh, blackly abject landscape of minimal low end thrum, and corrosive grinding glacial crunch, two slabs of slowly decaying melted metal filth, allowed to ooze blackly into great sonic tarpits of sound, audial black holes, their blinding black glow dulling all the colors around their slowly collapsing centers.
"Dragged By A Black Cat" begins as a hushed creep, a low thrumming drift, peppered with strange bits of scrape and clatter, the low end billowing up in great gauzy clouds, so low the speakers struggle to keep up. A haunting cinematic ambience, like the score for a descent into some great yawning abyss. Eventually streaks of feedback, and sheets of buzz are laid atop the throbbing low end, wreathed in electronic crackle, in gouts of tremorous glitch, building into a crumbling wall of cascading buzz and grinding crunch, the chaos and clamor gradually settling into a long bit of processed drift, a slow swirly sea of near static tones and subtle harmonic shifts, a Niblockian expanse of soft sumptuous swells and lush layered thrum.
"Heavy Fierce Brightness", begins much like the first side, some hushed minimal rumble, some ominous drone, but quickly the sound grows tense, a wash of smoldering buzz quickly enveloping the softly chiming minimal shimmer beneath, but that underlying melodic swirl, remains throughout, while the more corrosive sounds above, roil and churn like some storm swept sonic sea, the various layers coalescing into something strangely shoegazey, a warped undulating dronescape of looped and layered tones, of crunch and shimmer and buzz and whir, keening distant melodies, and lush rumbling whirs, all blurred into a slow shifting panorama of blown out black bliss, a muted harshness, that somehow still manages to soothe and entrance. The final stretch a series of mesmerizing slow burning swells, dark and deep, truly heavy dronemusic, a sound that is anything but minimal, a constant slow motion barrage of downtuned guitar crunch, squealing electronics, deep metallic reverberations, whirling layered tones, strangely textured thrum, gauzy ambience, all woven into a caustic and creeping doomdronedirgedrift crawl.
LIMITED TO 300 COPIES! Housed in a gorgeous embossed jacket, with original artwork by Colin Stinson (and featuring images of the HFB installation).

GRAY, BARRY Space: 1999 (RCA) lp 12.98

GREAVES, JUSTIN The Devil's Business (Death Waltz) cd 17.98
Two new releases from UK vinyl horror movie soundtrack reissue label Death Waltz this week, elsewhere on the list you'll find the soundtrack to John Carpenter's They Live, one of our favorite movies EVER, and then there's this, a more recent proposition, the soundtrack to 2011's The Devil's Business, which we have yet to see, but the trailer looks pretty incredible. And the soundtrack too, not Death Waltz's first foray into modern soundtracks (they did Let The Right One In recently), but it is their first foray into compact discs, this being the first DW release available on both vinyl (being restocked soon) and cd. And they've gone all out on the cd, with some of the coolest, most creative packaging we've seen, but more on that in a second.
The soundtrack/score here is by Justin Greaves, who many aQ-ers should know as a member of sludgelords Iron Monkey, as well as the mainman in atmospheric post rock brooders Crippled Black Phoenix, which makes sense, as the music here is not that far removed from Crippled Black Phoenix. The excellently titled opener "My Enemies I Fear Not, But Protect Me From My Friends", perfectly lays out the sonic template sounding like a haunting, brooding, slow burn post rock, loping and doomy, soaring and darkly majestic, the vocals though a deep croon, the sort of voice to imagine singing old hymns in Latin, which perfectly fits the vibe. There's some Morricone-ish twang too, and swirling strings, tense and moody, building to a seriously intense climax, before slipping back into a droney brood.
And the thing is, unlike a lot of scores and soundtracks, only a handful of these tracks are cues, most are proper songs, hard to say if the whole songs are used in the movie or just parts, but those tracks are pretty great, droney, and dark, psychedelic and smoldering, super atmospheric and cinematic (obviously), laced with synths and strings, buzzing guitars, plodding rhythms, a few tracks have a gypsy vibe to them, sounding almost circusy, others are slow, creepy doom folk drifts, occasionally laced with operatic vocals, or field recordings, but just as often, allowed to creep ominously, and some songs full on rock sounding like Godspeed or Explosions In The Sky or yeah, Crippled Black Phoenix.
A few tracks get reprised at the end of the record, one song is revisited, only spookier (the 'spooky version'), another is an alternate version that recasts the original as sounding more like Goblin or John Carpenter, and one of the shorter jams gets fleshed out as a huge, majestic post rock blow out. The shorter cues are pretty great too, from ghostly high end ambient shimmer, to woozy, sinister synthscapery.
As with all Death Waltz, the packaging is super swank, the label's first cd is no different, with a spot varnished cover, with new art, that makes the movie seem like it could be from the seventies, all housed in a six panel gatefold pop-up (!!!), and the cd is affixed to the little part that pops up. So when it's open, the cd is vertical, suspended above the artwork. So cool!!
MPEG Stream: "My Enemies I Fear Not, But Protect Me From My Friends"
MPEG Stream: "The Whistler"
MPEG Stream: "Business Is Good"

GREAVES, JUSTIN The Devil's Business (Death Waltz) lp 28.00
ALSO ON VINYL!
Another awesome new release from UK vinyl horror movie soundtrack reissue label Death Waltz, the soundtrack to 2011's The Devil's Business, which we have yet to see, but the trailer looks pretty incredible. While Death Waltz does generally tend to focus on vintage horror soundtracks, this is not their first foray into modern soundtracks, having recently also released the Let The Right One In.
The man behind the music for the The Devil's Business is Justin Greaves, who many aQ-ers should know as a member ofof sludgelords Iron Monkey, as well as the mainman in atmospheric post rock brooders Crippled Black Phoenix, which makes sense, as the music here is not that far removed from Crippled Black Phoenix. The excellently titled opener "My Enemies I Fear Not, But Protect Me From My Friends", perfectly lays out the sonic template sounding like a haunting, brooding, slow burn post rock, loping and doomy, soaring and darkly majestic, the vocals though a deep croon, the sort of voice to imagine singing old hymns in Latin, which perfectly fits the vibe. There's some Morricone-ish twang too, and swirling strings, tense and moody, building to a seriously intense climax, before slipping back into a droney brood.
And the thing is, unlike a lot of scores and soundtracks, only a handful of these tracks are cues, most are proper songs, hard to say if the whole songs are used in the movie or just parts, but those tracks are pretty great, droney, and dark, psychedelic and smoldering, super atmospheric and cinematic (obviously), laced with synths and strings, buzzing guitars, plodding rhythms, a few tracks have a gypsy vibe to them, sounding almost circusy, others are slow, creepy doom folk drifts, occasionally laced with operatic vocals, or field recordings, but just as often, allowed to creep ominously, and some songs full on rock sounding like Godspeed or Explosions In The Sky or yeah, Crippled Black Phoenix.
A few tracks get reprised at the end of the record, one song is revisited, only spookier (the 'spooky version'), another is an alternate version that recasts the original as sounding more like Goblin or John Carpenter, and one of the shorter jams gets fleshed out as a huge, majestic post rock blow out. The shorter cues are pretty great too, from ghostly high end ambient shimmer, to woozy, sinister synthscapery.
As with all Death Waltz, the packaging is super swank, the lp has a killer spot varnished cover, with new art, that makes the movie seem like it could be from the seventies, a huge poster inside as well as liner notes from Greaves. So cool!!
MPEG Stream: "My Enemies I Fear Not, But Protect Me From My Friends"
MPEG Stream: "The Whistler"
MPEG Stream: "Business Is Good"

GREEN, BILLY Stone (OST) (B-Music / Finders Keepers) cd 16.98
We've never seen this movie but if it's anything like the soundtrack, boy do we want to see it. It must be INSANE. And very, very groovy. 'Cause this is one trippy record, guitarist/composer Billy Green's psychedelic soundtrack to the 1974 biker flick Stone, today a cult classic (we hear it's out now on dvd, gotta find it!). It's from Australia, one of the early precursors to Mad Max in the so-called "Ozpolitation" genre (about which there's been a recent documentary that we also have to see!), doubtless full of violence, stunts, bikes, and girls.
We don't know much about the plot except that it involves the badass Gravediggers motorcycle gang (who, while as shaggy and dirty as any Hell's Angels, ride fancy new Japanese pocket rockets instead of the Harleys you might expect), characters with names like Dr. Death, Stone, Toad, Undertaker, Captain Midnight, most of whom get their own distinctive cues on the soundtrack. Beyond that, the liner notes mention acid trips and something about a political assassination, and well if you know what happens don't tell us 'cause we don't want to spoil anything for when/if we do see the film, we'll just enjoy the music for now!
Track one, the six minute, 35 second long "Eco Blue/Toadstrip" really dumps listeners in at the deep end, being a dark and unsettling musique concrete composition consisting of noisy electronic Moog synth bbrrzapp, and didgeridoo drone (ordinarily we detest the didge, but this IS an Australian movie), like a drug fuelled jam between aliens and aborigines. If you survive that (rather than report to the tent for those who ate the bad acid), the next track shifts mood considerably, being a funky freaky instrumental called "Race", full of wah-wah guitar and more electronic embellishments. Yep, just two tracks in and it's already totally awesome! As the disc continues, you'll get to hear all sorts of other strange and groovy sounds, including short interludes of sound effects and chanting ("Pigs"), lush, melancholic orchestration ("Cosmic Funeral"), bluegrass pickin' ("Septic"), classical strings and splashing cymbals ("Amanda"), Hendrix-y fuzzed fusion ("Stone"), mellow hippie blues-bliss ("Smoke"), heavy prog plus free jazz freakout ("Gravediggers"), and loads more that's either super groovy or super wacked, or both. Sometimes it sounds like a 'proper' film soundtrack, with the usual sort of suspenseful or sentimental cinematic stylings, but mostly it's all about sleazy, krautrocky chaos!
It's mostly instrumental, except for the bonus tracks, one which consists of dialogue from the film ("Hip's Rap"), one being a kinda cheesy soul-fuzz number ("Cosmic Flash"), and also two portentous versions of "Do Not Go Gentle (Rage)", a song based on the Dylan Thomas poem, set to music by Billy Green - we prefer the second one, sung by Jeannie Lewis, which was probably very important to the emotional impact of some crucial scene in the movie but here just seems awesomely over the top and incongruous.
The final bonus track is the audio from the original theatrical trailer for the movie, which starts off with someone screaming "SATAN!!!!!" followed by a dead pan voiceover intoning "Stone is a trip", and reciting further selling points, backed by a collage of sound effects and funky hard rock vamping, all snippets from the soundtrack. Again, it makes us want to see it... except, in a way, maybe we're realizing it's better to have the film exist (for us) only in our imaginations, 'cause the soundtrack is so far out it seems likely that the actual film couldn't possibly live up to it, could it? In any event, the soundtrack certainly stands by itself as a sizzlingly lysergic slice of '70s rock/electronic weirdness, part Bobby Beausoleil, part Amon Duul, a little bit Sly Stone, a little bit Sir Lord Baltimore... and altogether Stone(d).
Now, if you search on such keywords as "motorcycle gang", "fuzz", and "soundtrack" on our website, besides this you'll find our rave review of another Satanic motorcycle gang movie soundtrack that we ALSO made a Record Of The Week once upon a time, that'd be the music by John Cameron and session band Frog from the 1972 zombie biker flick Psychomania, reissued by Trunk some years back, and now sadly out of print again. Billy Green's Stone soundtrack is obviously the only thing that comes close. You could definitely file 'em together, Stone being a worthy successor (with a song called "Toad" instead of one called "The Frog"). It'd be a great double feature.
Also, remember that unusual series of Aussie psychedelic sixties/seventies surf movie soundtracks from the Japanese label EM, we listed a while back? The ones by Farm, Peter Martin & Finch, Tamam Shud, etc.? Though this is inspired by wheels rather than waves, and ain't so sunshiney, still fits in with the best of those.
As usual with B-Music / Finders Keepers productions, this is a labor of love, and the cd booklet reflects that, its many pages stuffed full of full-color film stills and poster artwork, along with a lengthy and knowledgeable essay by DJ Andy Votel. Before delving into the story of Stone, Votel talks a bit about the history of '60s / '70s B-movie biker cinema, citing the aforementioned Psychomania as an important forerunner to this film and its soundtrack.
Like we said, we've never seen Stone, though we want to. However, we've been fans of this soundtrack for some time. There was a previous, Australia-only compact disc reissue of this back in 1999, on the occasion of the film's 25th anniversary (which was celebrated with a 35,000 strong biker rally!). We were never really able to get any to stock though, so it's awesome to have this now, and it's been further expanded with additional bonus tracks, as well as nicely packaged, including a slipcover. When we heard it was coming out again, we immediately thought, Record Of The Week. Finally folks everywhere will get a chance to hear this, and ride with Stone and the Gravediggers!
MPEG Stream: "Eco Blue / Toadstrip"
MPEG Stream: "Race"
MPEG Stream: "Amanda"
MPEG Stream: "Gravediggers"
MPEG Stream: "Stone Is A Trip (Trailer)"

GREEN, BILLY Stone (OST) (B-Music / Finders Keepers) 2lp 27.00
A recent Record Of The Week, NOW ON (IMPORT) VINYL!!
We've never seen this movie but if it's anything like the soundtrack, boy do we want to see it. It must be INSANE. And very, very groovy. 'Cause this is one trippy record, guitarist/composer Billy Green's psychedelic soundtrack to the 1974 biker flick Stone, today a cult classic (we hear it's out now on dvd, gotta find it!). It's from Australia, one of the early precursors to Mad Max in the so-called "Ozpolitation" genre (about which there's been a recent documentary that we also have to see!), doubtless full of violence, stunts, bikes, and girls.
We don't know much about the plot except that it involves the badass Gravediggers motorcycle gang (who, while as shaggy and dirty as any Hell's Angels, ride fancy new Japanese pocket rockets instead of the Harleys you might expect), characters with names like Dr. Death, Stone, Toad, Undertaker, Captain Midnight, most of whom get their own distinctive cues on the soundtrack. Beyond that, the liner notes mention acid trips and something about a political assassination, and well if you know what happens don't tell us 'cause we don't want to spoil anything for when/if we do see the film, we'll just enjoy the music for now!
Track one, the six minute, 35 second long "Eco Blue/Toadstrip" really dumps listeners in at the deep end, being a dark and unsettling musique concrete composition consisting of noisy electronic Moog synth bbrrzapp, and didgeridoo drone (ordinarily we detest the didge, but this IS an Australian movie), like a drug fuelled jam between aliens and aborigines. If you survive that (rather than report to the tent for those who ate the bad acid), the next track shifts mood considerably, being a funky freaky instrumental called "Race", full of wah-wah guitar and more electronic embellishments. Yep, just two tracks in and it's already totally awesome! As the disc continues, you'll get to hear all sorts of other strange and groovy sounds, including short interludes of sound effects and chanting ("Pigs"), lush, melancholic orchestration ("Cosmic Funeral"), bluegrass pickin' ("Septic"), classical strings and splashing cymbals ("Amanda"), Hendrix-y fuzzed fusion ("Stone"), mellow hippie blues-bliss ("Smoke"), heavy prog plus free jazz freakout ("Gravediggers"), and loads more that's either super groovy or super wacked, or both. Sometimes it sounds like a 'proper' film soundtrack, with the usual sort of suspenseful or sentimental cinematic stylings, but mostly it's all about sleazy, krautrocky chaos!
It's mostly instrumental, except for the bonus tracks, one which consists of dialogue from the film ("Hip's Rap"), one being a kinda cheesy soul-fuzz number ("Cosmic Flash"), and also two portentous versions of "Do Not Go Gentle (Rage)", a song based on the Dylan Thomas poem, set to music by Billy Green - we prefer the second one, sung by Jeannie Lewis, which was probably very important to the emotional impact of some crucial scene in the movie but here just seems awesomely over the top and incongruous.
The final bonus track is the audio from the original theatrical trailer for the movie, which starts off with someone screaming "SATAN!!!!!" followed by a dead pan voiceover intoning "Stone is a trip", and reciting further selling points, backed by a collage of sound effects and funky hard rock vamping, all snippets from the soundtrack. Again, it makes us want to see it... except, in a way, maybe we're realizing it's better to have the film exist (for us) only in our imaginations, 'cause the soundtrack is so far out it seems likely that the actual film couldn't possibly live up to it, could it? In any event, the soundtrack certainly stands by itself as a sizzlingly lysergic slice of '70s rock/electronic weirdness, part Bobby Beausoleil, part Amon Duul, a little bit Sly Stone, a little bit Sir Lord Baltimore... and altogether Stone(d).
Now, if you search on such keywords as "motorcycle gang", "fuzz", and "soundtrack" on our website, besides this you'll find our rave review of another Satanic motorcycle gang movie soundtrack that we ALSO made a Record Of The Week once upon a time, that'd be the music by John Cameron and session band Frog from the 1972 zombie biker flick Psychomania, reissued by Trunk some years back, and now sadly out of print again. Billy Green's Stone soundtrack is obviously the only thing that comes close. You could definitely file 'em together, Stone being a worthy successor (with a song called "Toad" instead of one called "The Frog"). It'd be a great double feature.
Also, remember that unusual series of Aussie psychedelic sixties/seventies surf movie soundtracks from the Japanese label EM, we listed a while back? The ones by Farm, Peter Martin & Finch, Tamam Shud, etc.? Though this is inspired by wheels rather than waves, and ain't so sunshiney, still fits in with the best of those.
Like we said, we've never seen Stone, though we want to. However, we've been fans of this soundtrack for some time. There was a previous, Australia-only compact disc reissue of this back in 1999, on the occasion of the film's 25th anniversary (which was celebrated with a 35,000 strong biker rally!). We were never really able to get any to stock though, so it's awesome to have this now, and it's been further expanded with additional bonus tracks. When we heard it was coming out again, we immediately thought, Record Of The Week. Finally folks everywhere will get a chance to hear this, and ride with Stone and the Gravediggers!
MPEG Stream: "Eco Blue / Toadstrip"
MPEG Stream: "Race"
MPEG Stream: "Amanda"
MPEG Stream: "Gravediggers"
MPEG Stream: "Stone Is A Trip (Trailer)"

GREENWOOD, JONNY Bodysong (Capitol) cd 17.98
Jonny Greenwood, of alt/art pop heroes Radiohead, steps out from behind enigmatic frontman Thom Yorke to pen the music to the indie art film Bodysong. Haven't seen the movie other than the 8 minute clip found on the cd but it looks to be quite cool. A dreamy assemblage of movement, African shamans, tribal rituals, Times Square revellers, grainy antique footage of dances and performance. All slowed down and hypnotic. The perfect visual match for Greenwood's hazy post-'Head ambient melancholia. The dreamy creepy crawl of Radiohead is definitely present, although sort of tripped out and spaced out. Less angst and more subtle moodiness. It is a soundtrack after all. And the soundtrack is all over the place, probably makes a lot more sense seen with the film, which is not to say this isn't an amzing listen. Breezy Parisian melodies flutter through the cool Spring breeze, with some shuffling acid jazz over warm static chordal drones. Militaristic, almost industrial percussion occasionally keeps things in line.
Asian stringed instruments pluck out simple looping rhythms over simple funky drums locked in a hiccuppy rhythm interrupted every once in a while by some wild boppy Miles Davis-ish jazz. All nestled amidst lush chunks of glitchy dubbed out electronic ambience, with Kraftwerkian melodies and pizzicato strings. The closest comparison that comes to mind is UNKLE, but Greenwood's Bodysong is a lot more subtle and focused, a lot stranger and aimed squarely at the heart or the head, not the hips.
MPEG Stream: "Bodysong 1"
MPEG Stream: "Bodysong 3"
MPEG Stream: "Bodysong 4"

GREENWOOD, JONNY There Will Be Blood (Nonesuch) cd 17.98
We haven't seen the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson yet but judging by the string heavy, super intense score composed by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood we get the feeling this is going to be one serious and probably very bloody filmic experience. Unlike his prior venture into the world of film soundtracks with his eclectic and imaginative score to Bodysong, this has a much more grand and classic quality to it, recalling the sounds of some Stanley Kubrick films with a very in your face, Penderecki-styled attack of string sounds. Meticulously executed, you would think Greenwood had been scoring films for decades.
MPEG Stream: "There Will Be Blood"
MPEG Stream: "Future Markets"

GRUPPO D'IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA Niente (Roundtable / The Omni Recording Corporation) lp 27.00
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
FINALLY BACK IN STOCK!! LAST COPIES!!!
The Omni Recording Corporation has been killing it lately in a string of essential vinyl reissue collaborations with the Australian Roundtable label, focusing on rare library, lounge and private press exotica. We recently listed the Orchestra Peter Thomas Orion 2000 lp of tripped out sci-fi grooves, and this week we have two extremely fine examples of Italian library music from composer Egisto Macchi and his more well known group that included Ennio Morricone, Gruppo D'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza.
While we have always respected and revered this Italian improv collective, much of their recorded output has been on the difficult listening side of things. Skronky free jazz , metallic bangs and tings, tape noise and pounding prepared piano. Sometimes abstract, dissonant and sparse, though equally majestic, heavy and remarkable, it hasn't always been easy to get behind...until now! Finally, a lost recording from 1971 for the Gemelli Library that was never released, Niente is a mind-scorching set of avant-psych groove. While there are still qualities of their defining sound present, this set is marked most notably by a strong rhythm section that is not afraid to jam out. Reminding us of favorite records from Faust and Can, this is the GDNC at their most kraut. Both funky and proggy, we think that moden day-psych fans of bands like Wooden Shjips, 3 Leafs, Carlton Melton and The Heads should look into the weird sound world of this release and get their minds blown!
Limited to 500 copies and nearly out of print, we were lucky to get the copies we have, so don't snooze on this one!

GUARALDI, VINCE A Charlie Brown Christmas (Fantasy) cd 12.98
You've seen the TV special... you need the soundtrack! Originally released in 1965, an all-time classic from pianist/composer Guaraldi. For all Peanuts fans and Christmas lovers.

MPEG Stream: "O Tannenbaum"
MPEG Stream: "What Child Is This"