LAWA
(Acronym for LEONARD ALAIN WANK ALEX)
MANIFESTATION
Unreleased Film Music & more electronic Nightmares
(Cine 29)
LP 180g rusty red/black mixed colored Vinyl lim. 200 numbered copies
Release Date 12th July 2024
The soundtrack to your electronic Nightmare!
In the ‘Covid’ years, LAWA not only composed MANIPULATION (Cine 27, 2022) and the sister album INSTRUMENTALISATION (Cine 28, 2023) – more music was also created for a documentary, which for various reasons has not yet been completed. This music contains one side of the album MANIFESTATION and was completed with further pieces from 2023. In addition to various original compositions, LEONARD + WANK also created a version of the title theme from the Italian horror film NUDA PER SATANA and made it their own, so to speak – only the basic melody, of which the original song actually consists exclusively, was created into a complete song with a beat.
The album in its entirety is once again a soundtrack to your electronic nightmare!
INSTRUMENTALISATION
(Cine 28)
LP 180g white/blue marbled colored Vinyl lim. 300 copies (first 50 including the CD)
LP 180g Black Vinyl lim. 200 copies (first 50 including the CD)
CD Edition in LP Style Gatefold with printed Innersleeve
MANIPULATION + INSTRUMENTALISATION (Cine 27+28)
containing Cine 27 + 28 Vinyl albums lim. 300 copies
(CD version contains different mix and order of tracks, total running time of 80 minutes!)
Release Date 24th February 2023
LAWA
(Acronym for LEONARD ALAIN WANK ALEX)
MANIPULATION (Cine 27)
LP 180g blue/black mixed colored Vinyl lim. 300 copies
LP 180g Black Vinyl lim. 200 copies
Release Date 9th October 2022
There are places, they say, best left unexplored. Temples of darkness, ziggurats of gloom, resting places for those desperate souls whose essences have not fully departed this mortal plane…Who knows what awful secrets lurk there, deep in the black places of the Earth?
LAWA know. For their latest round of releases on the always forward-looking Cineploit label, the duo of Austrian mega-synthesists Alain Leonard and Alex Wank access realms as yet unseen by human eyes. Expanding on their previous records’ diet of soundtrack-heavy electronics and percussive mayhem, “Manipulation” and sister album “Instrumentalization” dive headfirst into the deep end of techno darkness, taking the listener on a one-way trip into unknown dimensions of industrial, malevolent horror.
Listen. Listen closely.
You will find yourself running, panic-stricken, through skyscraper canyons and waste-strewn alleys, pursued by nameless, faceless automatons.
You will stand within far-distant hidden cities, cowering from the impossible shadows that form among those twisted architectures.
You will sleep; and, aeons later, awake, somehow fundamentally altered from the person you once were.
You will transcend time.
You will, at the last, cheat death.
And, unsure of whether your perceptions are to be trusted, you will listen to this music…and listen again. Do you dare?
On to practical matters. On previous LAWA records our intrepid explorers reinterpreted newly-excavated reverberations and resonances from the dustier reaches of the celluloid world. And here again, as ever, the influence of the Italian Masters looms strong. Reanimating the festering remains of Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai and Riz Ortolani might, in some quarters, be frowned upon as somehow disturbing the natural cycle of existence. But there is music yet to be discovered within the legacy of those enigmatic souls. Not all ghosts bear malice. Some wish it to be known that the fruit of their endeavours tastes as succulent as ever. Would it not be impolite to refuse the offer?
And bear witness. “Manipulation” and “Instrumentalization” are presented as a compound organism of music and visuals, distinct and seemingly-incompatible elements intertwined like poison ivy. The artwork for these twin offerings was conceived and developed by one Thomas Zackl, designer extraordinaire and the visual genius behind many past Cineploit releases. In the art deco stylings of Herr Zackl’s illustrations we can see the perfect symmetry of sound and light, of dread and hope. These figures may be you, or your loved ones – or, if your fortune deserts you, they may depict the likeness of your ultimate nemesis. Look into the mirror of this music and find out…
And finally, a vital question. Do the men of LAWA know what they have wrought? Do they perceive their compositions the same way others do, as a medium for channelling that which the cautious may shy away from in fear and trepidation? Perhaps not. Perhaps, in the crepuscular, myceloid dusk they inhabit, they are merely humming along to the music of the cosmos, the eternal tolling of a vast, all-encompassing bell. Disturb them at your peril!
(MATT THOMPSON)
MANIPULATION (Cine 27) and it’s Sister Record INSTRUMENTALISATION (Cine 28) will be released separately as Vinyls. Manipulation in October 2022, Instrumentalisation beginning of 2023. There will be a CD Version with both Albums on one CD, this will be released as an CD Edition with a different, combined artwork and the Vinyl Version of INSTRUMENTALISATION will be equipped with that CD. (That is the reason for no CD with MANIPULATION). The CD Version will have an different track order and there will be always an Interlude connecting the tracks which means the music will never stop.
Trailer for
CHIMERA
magick ritual performance cluster
Elemental Mirror Ritual
Schauspielhaus, 1st October 2021, Vienna, Austria
To Release Negative Forces And Strengthen the Positive Ones in Our Goals for the Future.
featuring as the Magus
DORIAN BONES
Lyricist and Storyteller
ROBERTO MILUSIC
Performers from the Salon Kitty Revue
KITTY WILLENBRUCH
PANDORA NOX
MADLEINE DE SADE
SIRENE
BONA FIDE
Music composed especially for this performance by
LAWA = ALAIN LEONARD & ALEX WANK (Cineploit)
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LAWA – The Parallax View (Cine 23)
LP 180g colored Vinyl lim. 300 copies (200 +CD)
LP 180g Black Vinyl lim. 200 copies (50 +CD)
CD Mini Gatefold Sleeve lim. 400 copies
Release Date 11. December 2020
LAWA is the acronym for the duo of Austrian soundtrack wizards Alain Leonard and Alex Wank. Once again they are honouring the world of film music in their idiosyncratic, very personal way. After their first Cineploit release, “Omaggio a Lucio Fulci and Fabio Frizzi“ (Exploit 02, 2012, Vinyl only) and the follow up, “Omaggio a Riz Ortolani“ (Exploit 06, 2015, Vinyl only) LAWA now takes a ride through the furthest reaches of ’70s and ’80s French and Italian cinema. From Michel Colombier, Michel Legrand and Jacques Revaux to Alessandro Alessandroni, Daniele Patucchi, Nico Catanese and G & M de Angelis, every base is covered. And, of course, not to forget the Master of them all: Ennio Morricone (RIP).
These very special tracks have been renewed in LAWA’s dark electronic style, proving without a doubt the high-level craft of the composers extraordinaire that created them. Some versions are close to the original, but others have acted as springboards for new ideas and creations.
This release is probably LAWA’s final reinterpretation of classic obscure film scores, as Messrs Leonard and Wank are creating more and more of their own atmospheric soundtrack music for documentaries, shorts and feature films – hopefully soon to be released via Cineploit as well.
Now take a deep dive into this dark ride through European cinema, brought to you in the inimitable LAWA way!
Tracklist
2019: Dopo La Caduta Di New York
(aka Fireflash – Der Tag Nach Dem Ende * 2019 After The Fall Of New York)
Original composed by Guido & Maurizio de Angelis
L´ Arbaléte
(aka Der Linkshänder * The Syringe * Asphalt Warriors)
Original composed by Jacques Revaux
Suor Omicidi
(Aka Killer Nun)
Original composed by Alessandro Alessandroni
É tanta paura
(aka Magnum 45 * Plot of Fear)
Original composed by Daniele Patucchi
La Bimba Di Satana
(aka Sexorgien Im Satansschloss * Dr. Porno & Sein Satanszombie * A Girl For Satan)
Original composed by Nico Catanese.
The Parallax View
Original composed by Alain Leonard and Alex Wank
Un Homme est Mort
(aka Brutale Schatten * The Outside Man)
Original composed by Michel Legrand
L´Alpagueur
(Aka Der Greifer * Lo sparviero)
Original composed by Michel Colombier
Revolver (Versione 2019)
(aka Die perfekte Erpressung * Blood in the Streets)
Original composed by Ennio
New revised version, re-recorded drums, re-worked track and different mix.
LAWA – Omaggio a Riz Ortolani (Exploit 06)
In Memory of Riz Ortolani – una grande compositore, may you rest in peace!
Dedicated to Ruggero Deodato, Pupi Avati, Tonino Valerii (RIP), Damiano Damiani (RIP) & Lucio Fulci (RIP).
6 Tracks from Maestro Ortolani in the LAWA way! The tracklist consists of:
Massacre of the Troupe & Adulteress Punishment (From the movie Cannibal Holocaust aka Nackt und zerfleischt by Ruggero Deodato)
Zeder (From the movie Zeder aka Terror der Untoten by Pupi Avati)
I Giorni dell´ Ira (From the movie I Giorni dell´Ira aka Day of Anger aka Der Tod ritt Dienstags by Tonino Valerii)
Io ho Paura (From the movie Io ho Paura aka Ich habe Angst by Damiano Damiani)
Confessione di un comissario di polizia (From the movie Confessione di un Comissario di Polizia al Procuratore della Repubblica aka Der Clan der seine Feinde lebendig einmauerte by Damiano Damiani)
I guerrieri dell’anno 2072 (From the movie The new Gladiators aka Rome 2033 – The Fighter Centurions aka Die Schlacht der Centurions by Lucio Fulci)
LAWA – Omaggio a Lucio Fulci e Fabio Frizzi & Walter Rizzati (Exploit 02) – SOLD OUT!!!!!
2 Cover Versions of Scores originally composed by FABIO FRIZZI & WALTER RIZZATI – Songs of Italian Cult Horrormovies THE BEYOND and HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY – Movies directed by Cult director LUCIO FULCI – Executed by ALAIN LEONARD (of electronic act ON/OFF) and ALEX WANK (formerly PUNGENT STENCH)
