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!
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.
LAWA – Instrumentalisation (Cine 28) is coming on Vinyl February 24th together with a CD Edition which includes Manipulation (Cine 27) in a different mix and order. There is also a 2 Vinyl/CD Set offered together with MANIPULATION, see link. #lawaband #alainleonard #leonardalain #alexwank #wankalex #cineploit #cineploitdiscs #cineploitrecords #cineploitrecordsanddiscs
this album was intended to give you the ideal soundscapes to relax, reflect about the past and to take a look into the future. over 3,5 hours for your listening pleasure !
The latest work of Thelema „Studies on Atmosphere“ is an 3,5 hour piece of work only released digitally (check the Thelema Bandcamp site) and in an handmade Edition Boxset of 3 CD-R´ s Limited to 25 copies. We have 4 copies in our Webshop!
LAWA is taking a Ride through the 70´ s and 80´ s of French and Italian cinema. From Michel Colombier, Michel Legrand and Jacques Revaux to Alessandro Alessandroni, Daniele Patucchi, Nico Catanese and G & M de Angelis. Not to forget the Master of them all, Morricone.
In their dark electronic Style these tracks appear in a new brilliance and proof the excellent handcraft these songs were done – and they were created by extraordinaire Composers. In some cases the versions of LAWA are close to the original others were idea giver for their own creation.
„THE PARALLAX VIEW“ (Cine 23) is coming as black or coloured Vinyl/CD Set or as CD Edition.
LAWA (which is the acronym of Leonard Alain and Wank Alex) new album entitled „The Parallax View“ (Cine 23) will be released later 2020 is honoring various scores and composers from Italy and France. This track is the title track of „2019: After the Fall of New York aka Fireflash“ by Guido & Maurizio de Angelis, a score which was never released so far in any form. As the title track is never played to the end in the film LAWA continued in their own way to finish the track as it could be. In other words it starts as a „Cover“ and develops to their very own. Nevertheless a fantastic and different score by the De Angelis brothers which has to get rediscovered and released!!!
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.