A
little nightmare music.
A collection of Chris Conway's music for film, video and
the stage, much of it focussing on his horror soundtrack
music. Eerie choirs, ominous drones and scratching zithers.
The stuff of nightmares...
background
Music
for films, video and stage.
1-6 from the film The Appointment 2007
- dir Aaron Greenwood - Cats And Dogs Films
A creepy Kafka-esque tale with an Eastern European feel.
7 - written for the film Freetown
- 200 years of Freedom?
- dir Nick Hamer - Intrepid Media
A short documentary film on Freetown, Sierra Leone.
8, 9 from the film Departures 1992
dir Bjørnar Bjørnson - TRG Films
A short Norwegian art film about parting.
Tracks 10, 11 from the 1992 stage production of The
Goose Maiden
- dir Jess Tyrell
A stage play with a mysterious Celtic feel.
12-16
- from the 2009 web TV series Raising Kayn
- dir Colton Tran - 5 Rainbow Family Productions
A series focussing on a family's everyday encounters with
supernatural entities.
More background on assembling the album can be found here
The Appointment film
influences
Gyorgy
Ligeti, Vidna Obmana, Eduard Artemiev, Marty Simon, Robert
Rich, Lydia Kavina, Simon Stockhausen,
trivia
The
tracks 8-11 from Departures and The Goose Maiden were originally released on a 1992 cassette album Soundtracks.
Recorded
digitally, live at TRG and Oblong Studios, Leicester,
UK.
10, 11 also recorded at Broad Street Studios, Loughborough,
UK
The track Conscience includes a traditional Irish
tune called Gallic Waltz.
The entire soundtrack to the Raising Kayn sereies is to
be released soon on CD and the series is to be released
on DVD. Episodes can be viewed on youtube.
The music for Freetown was composed for the film
but it appears the director chose other music.
Downloading the album from Bandcamp you get a hidden bonus
track - Lemuria Dark
CC's
fave track -Lemuria Light
buy
cd only £9 free postage
also
available from CDBaby
