John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies – Halloween (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies – Halloween (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:36 minutes | 433 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sacred Bones Records

John Carpenter’s soundtrack for the new ‘Halloween’ movie. Spoiler: it sounds a lot like the previous ‘Halloween’ scores. “When the new Halloween movie hits theaters in October 2018, it will have the distinction of being the first film in the series with creator John Carpenter’s direct involvement since 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Carpenter serves on the new David Gordon Green-directed installment as an executive producer, a creative consultant, and, thrillingly, as a soundtrack composer, alongside his collaborators from his three recent solo albums, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.

The new soundtrack pays homage to the classic Halloween score that Carpenter composed and recorded in 1978, when he forever changed the course of horror cinema and synthesizer music with his low-budget masterpiece. Several new versions of the iconic main theme serve as the pulse of Green’s film, its familiar 5/4 refrain stabbing through the soundtrack like the Shape’s knife. The rest of the soundtrack is just as enthralling, incorporating everything from atmospheric synth whooshes to eerie piano-driven pieces to skittering electronic percussion. While the new score was made with a few more resources than Carpenter’s famously shoestring original, its musical spirit was preserved.

“We wanted to honor the original Halloween soundtrack in terms of the sounds we used,” Davies explained. “We used a lot of the Dave Smith OB-6, bowed guitar, Roland Juno, Korg, Roli, Moog, Roland System 1, Roland System 8, different guitar pedals, mellotron, and piano.”

Unlike the Lost Themes albums, where the composers wrote the soundtracks for imaginary movies, Halloween saw the Carpenters and Davies collaborating on music set to images for the first time. Though it marked a significant change from their previous creative process, the trio thrived under the constraints and tight deadlines that film scoring work demands.”

Tracklist:

1. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Intro (01:14)
2. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Halloween Theme (03:02)
3. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Laurie’s Theme (00:44)
4. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Prison Montage (02:46)
5. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Michael Kills (00:33)
6. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Michael Kills Again (03:45)
7. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – The Shape Returns (03:32)
8. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – The Bogeyman (01:06)
9. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – The Shape Kills (00:50)
10. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Laurie Sees the Shape (01:13)
11. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Wrought Iron Fence (00:47)
12. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – The Shape Hunts (00:58)
13. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Allyson Discovered (01:26)
14. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Say Something (03:02)
15. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Ray’s Goodbye (01:39)
16. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – The Shape Is Monumental (01:57)
17. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – The Shape and Laurie Fight (01:54)
18. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – The Grind (01:52)
19. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Trap the Shape (02:10)
20. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – The Shape Burns (01:31)
21. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies – Halloween Triumphant (07:28)

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