Music

The ‘Psycho’ Theme Played on Piano…With Knives!

Published

8 years ago

April 26, 2016

This TOTALLY slipped me by but with less than 50,000 views, I figure it slipped several of you by as well and that means it’s brand new news for everyone! YAY!

Musician Joachim Horsley has created a rather amazing piano cover of the Psycho theme, which was originally composed by Bernard Herrmann. What makes this cover stand out is a few things: 1) It’s not just a one-take piano shot. There’s cuts, edits, overdubs, and layering here that gives it a lot of depth. 2) There’s obviously a lot of love put into the creation of this video and cover. It’s extremely fun to watch! 3) He plays the piano with freaking knives! Yeah, the iconic shower scene weapon is utilized heavily throughout this cover and it’s just badass to watch! Give it a view below!

You can grab the “Psycho Theme” and a whole slew of other movie theme covers on Horsley’s album Was Dead the Whole Time via iTunes.

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Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

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…