London´s Zoltan follow up their 2012 Cineploit album release “First Stage Zoltan” by honouring a classic British cult movie from the 1970´s – Psychomania aka Der Frosch! In their very special way Zoltan took several themes and melodies from the brilliant fuzzed-out score by John Cameron, and created an epic 13 minute suite of wonderful and fantastic Soundtrack Prog!!
The CD version was so far only included to a limited DVD release of the Film as a Bonus and to a handful of LP/CD Sets of ZOLTAN ´s 2nd Opus SIXTY MINUTE ZOOM. This CD edition is strictly limited to 99 handnumbered copies in a 3 panel cardboard sleeve.
RASHOMON and MORLOCK Vinyl & CD Editions ready and shipping! Of both Vinyl Editions we have a colored LP/CD Set or solid black LP/CD Set. Both CD Editions are coming in Gatefold Cardboard Sleeves. Get your copy now in our online store!
RASHOMON – Ashcan copy – Filmmusic Vol. III (Cine 21) Colored VinylRASHOMON – Ashcan copy – Filmmusic Vol. III (Cine 21) CD EditionMORLOCK – Ancient Paths (Cine 22) colored VinylMORLOCK – Ancient Paths (Cine 22) CD Edition
LP/CD Set (180g Vinyl 300x 2-coloured/200x black, UV spot on front & back, printed Innersleeve housed in plastic outersleeve), CD as Bonus in plastic sleeve
CD (cardboard gatefold sleeve, UV spot finishing, printed Innersleeve)
Release date 25th October 2019
OVERVIEW
Prog doom drummer du jour Andrew Prestidge branches out into the field of electronic music with his solo synthesizer project MORLOCK!
After several years spent holding down the drum stool with legendary doom metal acts Angel Witch, Electric Wizard and Warning – not to mention the prog rock bands Zoltan, The Osiris Club and Suns Of The Tundra – Andrew sat down with his keyboard collection, a 4-track recorder and a selection of sonic screwdrivers to create a new kind of music.
The space-rock jams contained on ‘Ancient Paths’ are influenced as much by retro synth artists Kraftwerk, Heldon, Tubeway Army and OMD as they are by the sci-fi soundtracks of John Carpenter and the folk-horror that seeps into every corner of the British Isles. Andrew’s previous experience in live-soundtracking silent films (performing at Stewart Lee’s ATP Festival with Suns Of The Tundra to a 1919 film detailing Shackleton’s expedition to Antarctica) and reworking vintage horror scores with Zoltan guide the expansive, all-instrumental melancholy of the record. Acoustic guitars, analog synthesizers and electronic percussion coalesce into a retro-futurist soundscape for the mind’s eye.
Many of the songtitles reference occult literature and cinema: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (‘Rotwang’s Furnace’), Phantasm (‘Morningside’), H.P. Lovecraft’s Colour Out Of Space (‘Blasted Heath’), the comics of Jack Kirby (‘Kirby Oberon’). The band name itself is a nod to H.G. Well’s classic 1895 novel ‘The Time Machine’.
The Wind in the Willows recast for the 22nd century? Quatermass and the Pit relocated to Summerisle? The music of Morlock bridges the past and the future, re-imagining both into a blend of electronic perfection.
Prog doom drummer du jour Andrew Prestidge branches out into the field of electronic music with his solo synthesizer project MORLOCK!
After
several years spent holding down the drum stool with legendary doom metal acts
Angel Witch, Electric Wizard and Warning – not to mention the prog rock bands
Zoltan, The Osiris Club and Suns Of The Tundra – Andrew sat down with his
keyboard collection, a 4-track recorder and a selection of sonic screwdrivers
to create a new kind of music.
The
space-rock jams contained on ‘Ancient Paths’ are influenced as much by retro
synth artists Kraftwerk, Heldon, Tubeway Army and OMD as they are by the sci-fi
soundtracks of John Carpenter and the folk-horror that seeps into every corner
of the British Isles. Andrew’s previous experience in live-soundtracking silent
films (performing at Stewart Lee’s ATP Festival with Suns Of The Tundra to a
1919 film detailing Shackleton’s expedition to Antarctica) and reworking
vintage horror scores with Zoltan guide the expansive, all-instrumental
melancholy of the record. Acoustic guitars, analog synthesizers and electronic
percussion coalesce into a retro-futurist soundscape for the mind’s eye.
Many
of the songtitles reference occult literature and cinema: Fritz Lang’s
Metropolis (‘Rotwang’s Furnace’), Phantasm (‘Morningside’), H.P. Lovecraft’s
Colour Out Of Space (‘Blasted Heath’), the comics of Jack Kirby (‘Kirby
Oberon’). The band name itself is a nod to H.G. Well’s classic 1895 novel ‘The
Time Machine’.
The
Wind in the Willows recast for the 22nd century? Quatermass and the
Pit relocated to Summerisle? The music of Morlock bridges the past and the
future, re-imagining both into a blend of electronic perfection.
