Famed horror director John Carpenter has been building up his album Lost Themes for a few months now. The 9-track album is a collection of brand new music that evokes the classic stylings of Carpenter’s films, such as Halloween, Escape From New York, Assault On Precinct 13, and more.
Carpenter states:
Lost Themes was all about having fun. It can be both great and bad to score over images, which is what I’m used to. Here there were no pressures. No actors asking me what they’re supposed to do. No crew waiting. No cutting room to go to. No release pending. It’s just fun. And I couldn’t have a better set-up at my house, where I depended on (collaborators) Cody (Carpenter, of the band Ludrium) and Daniel (Davies, who wrote the songs for I, Frankenstein) to bring me ideas as we began improvising. The plan was to make my music more complete and fuller, because we had unlimited tracks. I wasn’t dealing with just analogue anymore. It’s a brand new world. And there was nothing in any of our heads when we started other than to make it moody.
The album is now available to stream in full via NPR.
