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Features Disc of the day
Neil Young
Dead Man
(Vapor Records, 1996)
This Halloween, embrace the rumbling fear of Young’s electric guitar improv noise.
Finding a decent scary CD to soundtrack the apple ducking and pumpkin carving of the old Celtic New Year has never been easy. After all, you want something beyond the obvious, don’t you, but something that isn’t too upsetting yet avoids the kitsch of this. The soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch’s existential Johnny Depp noir western (possibly ‘inspired’ by an earlier Rudy Wurlitzer script, it says here), Young’s Dead Man score is a reverberating chord of sustained distortion and decay, an apocalyptic echo-growl of electric guitar, pump organ, and detuned piano shards, that suggests the scrabbling emergence of some ancient demon from inside the fragile egg-shell earth. This mood of unearthly creation and disturbing visions is further enhanced by a constant squall of surface noise, fragments of whispered cryptic dialogue and readings of William Blake’s poems of cosmic creation and fiery catastrophe by Depp and co-star Gary Farmer. Make it the rumbling soundbed of doom for your ghostly tales and torch-under-the-chin ghoul-gurning and you’re guaranteed one thoroughly chilling night in.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 31/10/2008
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Goblin – Suspiria (King Japan, 1977)
Popol Vuh – Nosferatu (SPV, 2004)
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