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Serj Tankian Taking the ‘Elect The Dead Symphony’ on the Road
System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian will be performing an orchestral interpretation of his solo album “Elect The Dead” on a special tour this summer. Tankian will recreate Elect the Dead Symphony with some of the finest orchestras in Europe, including the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Italy’s Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana.
“Elect The Dead Symphony” made it’s debut in New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in March 2009. That performance was captured on the Elect the Dead Symphony CD/DVD, which will be released by Serjical Strike/Reprise Records on March 9th, 2010. 6/17 Moscow, Russia, Crocus Hall (w/The Symphony Orchestra “Globalis”) – www.Concert.ru
6/20 Warsaw, Poland, Amfiteatr Sowinskiego (w/Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra) – www.ticketpro.pl
6/24 Prague, Czech Rep., Mala Sportovni Hall (w/Czech Natl Symphony Orchestra) www.ticketpro.cz
6/27 Linz, Austria, Brucknerhaus (w/Bruckner Orchester) – www.oeticket.at
6/30 Berlin, Germany, Admiralspalst, (w/Czech National Symphony Orchestra) – www.eventim.de
7/04 Milan, Italy, Civic Arena (w/Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana) – www.ticketone.it
7/05 Rome, Italy, Auditoirum, Parco Della Musica (w/Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana) – www.ticketone.it
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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