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‘The Woman In Black 2’ Score Gets Under Your Skin
What better way to kick off 2015 than with a brand new horror movie, right? And if your’e into ghost stories, how about checking out The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death, the sequel to the 2012 Hammer Film Productions The Woman In Black?
If you’re like me and you feel that music is an undeniably powerful aspect to the film, why not get a taste of the movie by heading below to listen to samples of the score, which was composed by Marcus Trumpp, Brandon Roberts, and genre favorite Marco Beltrami.
The music in the teaser is reminiscent of older horror movies, bombastic and theatrical, with sweeping strings and rumbling percussion, like thunder in the distance. It also demonstrates haunting, almost ethereal elements, such as what sounds like plucked piano strings.
You can pick up a physical copy of the album on Amazon.com, which will be released on January 6th. A digital version will be released on December 30th.
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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