UPDATE Number VI (27.01.2011)
Happy new ear Baldur´s sons, Perun´s daughters and the rest of you.
It is time again to announce another blood and thunder.
RASHOMON´s – Ashcan Copy (Film Music Vol. 3) will be Hlava´s 004th sacrifice.
After Matt Thompson´s escape from planet ZG he began his journey to conquer our own planet with Rashomon. His way hither led him via „The Ruined Map (2007 Mirrors Rec. (UK))“ and „The Finishing Line (2010 Hinterzimmer Rec. (Ch))“ directly to the temple. Here he unveils „Ashcan Copy“, his third and newest effort to win control of form and time. His implements are the creepiness, the terrifying and the unpredictable – proverbially, the dread! An amalgam of 70s prog soundtracks, Transylvanian Folk, grotesque images and anxiety.
“Rashomon explores cinematic atmospheres in a range of different, discomfiting ways.” (Dusted)
“A splendid tribute to the haunting, memory-distorting power of nostalgia.” (Boomkat)
“Not a soundtrack so much as an impressionistic reinterpretation, it encompasses ultra-slow Lynchian doom jazz, duelling guitar skronk, synapse-drenching high-pitched buzz, atonal hellscapes and harps falling down cellar stairs” (Rock-A-Rolla)
“This is not an album for Marillion fans” (Planet Mellotron)
Limited to 150 transparent copies with handnumbered insert housed in a PVC bag.
8 songs / 41:04 minutes. Release date will be April, more infos about the exact date will follow soon.
DISTROS/MAILORDERS/SHOPS: Feel free to ask for wholesale prices.
SLAVA!
http://www.hlava-temple.com/audio/r_doublekill.mp3
http://www.hlava-temple.com/audio/r_ren ... thhell.mp3
RASHOMON
ASHCAN COPY (FILM MUSIC VOLUME 3)
Rashomon is the brainchild of London-based Matt Thompson. A founding member of Guapo, he has been developing the Film Music series under the Rashomon name since 2004. Previous instalments have been inspired by the bizarre narrative discontinuities of directors such as Hiroshi Teshigahara and Albert Zugsmith (The Ruined Map : Film Music Vol. 1) and highly disturbing 1970s public information films (The Finishing Line : Film Music Vol. 2).
Over a year in the making, Ashcan Copy (Film Music Vol.3) contains interpretations of music from unreleased films from Italy, Japan and the USA (among others), dating from the 1950s to 1970s and sourced from film archives across Europe. These eight tracks expand on the source material to include elements of noise, folk, psychedelia, prog and jazz noir, while still remaining faithful to their origins. Unavailable in any other format and largely unknown until now, this music can at last be heard.
For fans of Ennio Morricone, Goblin, Popol Vuh and Bohren und der Club of Gore.
Music by Matt Thompson
Mix by Jaime Gomez Arellano
Instrumentation : Mellotron, Fender Rhodes, guitars, bass, zither, bowed psaltery, percussion, MiniMoog, Moog Taurus bass pedals, jaw harp, harmonium, autoharp,
some other stuff
TRACKS :
1. Double Kill (Italy, 1968, dir. Giovanni Grimaldi)
2. Jigora (Japan, 1969, dir. Yasuki Chiba)
3. Rendezvous With Hell (France, 1970, dir. Marc Roldán)
4. The Nightwatchman (Czech, 1975, dir. Josef Brezko)
5. The Door Has Two Sides (Italy, 1973, dir. Leopoldo Savona )
6. Hob Hurst's House (UK, 1978, dir. Anthony Drake)
7. Blue Mirror (Australia, 1973, dir. Bob Evans)
8. Pacemaker (USA, 1959, dir. Frank Andresano)
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004 – Rashomon – Ashcan Copy Lp (lim. 150/transparent)
003 – Steve Moore – Demo 2003 Lp (lim. 500/transparent-blue 180 gr.) [last copies available]
002 – Guapo – Black Oni Lp (lim. 500 deluxe-version/white 180 gr.) [sold out]
001 – Datashock + Aidan Baker + Leah Buckareff – One sided Live collaboration 12“ [sold out]