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Watch Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin Perform ‘Halloween’ and ‘The Exorcist’ Themes Live! [Video]
Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin is currently touring North America with a live score to Lamberto Bava’s Demons. That alone is worth the price of admission, but the band follows it with a full greatest hits concert.
While the majority of the set consists of classic Goblin cues from the likes of Dawn of the Dead, Suspiria, and Deep Red, the band also performs renditions of John Carpenter’s Halloween theme and Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells” from The Exorcist.
Enjoy my live footage of the covers from last night’s event at the Somerville Theatre in Somerville, Massachusetts:
“I have two favorite horror films, also for the music, and we did a special arrangement for these two songs,” Simonetti told the audience. “One is Halloween, and the second is ‘Tubular Bells’ from The Exorcist.” The crowd erupted as he began playing the iconic Halloween theme.
Simonetti and his bandmates — guitarist Daniele Amador, bassist Cecilia Nappo, and drummer Federico Maragoni — put a fresh spin on the songs, seamlessly flowing from Carpenter’s unmistakable cue into Oldfield’s prog-rock odyssey while clips from the respective films play on the screen behind them.
Stay tuned for full coverage of the event.
In the interim, read my interview with Simonetti here and grab your Demons tour tickets here.
Legendary filmmaker David Lynch had been teasing a special surprise for June 5, and all has been revealed over on the official David Lynch Theater YouTube account this morning.
Chrystabell and David Lynch are reuniting for the upcoming album Cellophane Memories, which we’ve learned Sacred Bones Records will be releasing on August 2, 2024!
To announce the album, they’ve also launched an official video for the track ‘Sublime Eternal Love.’ The video, seen below, was directed and photographed by David Lynch himself.
Performed by Chrystabell, the new music video was produced by Sabrina S. Sutherland, and it features Camera – Lighting, and Audio Assistance by Riley Lynch and Michael Barile.
You can pre-order and pre-save Cellophane Memories now.
Detailed in a press release, the album “comes from a vision that David experienced during a nighttime walk through a forest of tall trees, over the tops of which he saw a bright light. As he recalls it, the light became the lilt of Chrystabell’s voice and revealed a secret to him.”
“Elisions in time reappear over and over within Chrystabell’s vocals, which emerge and dissolve and loop back in layers of harmony and history,” the press release announcing the brand new album continues. “They are mantled by David’s, and late composer Angelo Badalamenti’s, orchestra of waldeinsamkeit-inspired strings, oneiric guitar glissandi and clouds of reverb, whose melodies are like the sensation of time pausing for a first kiss.”
A singer and actress, Chrystabell appeared in Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return,” and previously worked with David Lynch on the albums This Train and Somewhere in the Nowhere.
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