John Carpenter to release debut solo album, Lost Themes

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  • The soundtrack icon will put out an LP through Brooklyn label Sacred Bones in 2015.
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  • Sacred Bones Records will release an album from John Carpenter in February 2015. Lost Themes is being billed as the debut solo album from Carpenter, the master director and soundtrack composer who's crafted a string of iconic scores for his movies dating back to the late '70s (Halloween, Escape From New York and The Fog among them.) Carpenter says Lost Themes "was all about having fun." He adds: "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) and Daniel (Davies, who scored 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." He also says: "The best way I can describe what we've done is that it’s a 'soundtrack sampler,' which is what Cody calls it. They’re little moments of score from movies made in our imaginations. Now I hope it inspires people to create films that could be scored with this music." Listen to album track "Vortex" below. You can also watch "Vortex" set to a montage of clips from well-known Carpenter films here.
    Tracklist 01. Vortex 02. Obsidian 03. Fallen 04. Domain 05. Mystery 06. Abyss 07. Wraith 08. Purgatory 09. Night Sacred Bones will release Lost Themes on February 3rd, 2015.
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