ANDREW LILES Maleficent Monster And Other Macabre Stories LP nurse with wound
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ANDREW LILES The Maleficent Monster And Other Macabre Stories LP
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A prolific experimental sound artist with a long history of surrealistic, reality-warping releases under his belt going back for at least a decade, Nurse With Wound / Sehnsucht member (and sometime Current 93 collaborator) Andrew Liles has also busied himself with what he calls the Monster series, an ongoing series of releases begun in 2010 that, in his own words, explore "themes, incidental music, bridging songs, interludes, creaks and groans created as imaginary soundtracks for imaginary horror films". Unsurprisingly, these are among my favorite releases from Liles, various LPs and CDs that range from faux-horror soundtracks to experimental metal workouts. With his latest album Maleficent, Liles's music lands squarely in the realm of the former, throwing his hat into the horrorscape with this twenty-two track collection of abstract creepiness, an homage to classic horror film scores and creature feature schlock, in a sleeve that looks like one of those old 70s-era haunted house special effects records.
Liles wanders through a dreamzone littered with the remnants of forty-plus years of horror soundtrack history, drawing from the likes of Carpenter, Morricone, Komeda and Frizzi across such evocatively titled tracks as "Hyena Police", "Snake Faced Assassin", and "The Tree That Weeps", but without any visuals to accompany these creepy cues and experimental soundscapes, it's a lot more surreal. The music moves from eerie music-box melodies and spoken word monologues to passages of rumbling thunder and monstrous roars, strange keyboard tracks that sound like a more atonal, demented take on the baroque synth scores of Fabio Frizzi, and passages of frantic, tension-filled experimental jazz improvisation, with sinister scraped strings and howling looped noise and skittering percussion. There's primitive 8-bit synthesizer pieces that resemble what the Castlevania game soundtrack could have been if it had been recorded by John Carpenter drunk on absinthe, and wonderfully creaky electric piano arrangements that drip with a classic Hammer vibe. Maleficent constantly shifts from musical pieces to pure atmospheric sound, from ecstatic voodoo drumming and guttural blood-ritual incantations, to ominous piano loops, distant screams, ghostly theremin-like sound whirring in the darkness, flutes and tolling bells, murky chanting voices and swathes of orchestral creepiness, bursts of deranged analogue synth dread. It's a blast, very kitschy and totally drunk on a love of old 60's/70s era horror films, and yeah, at times it's like you're hearing Nurse With Wound plundering a crate filled with early Carpenter and Frizzi soundtracks, free-jazz obscurities, and stacks of those old Death & Horror studio sound effects LPs that Mike Brown produced in the late 1970s for the BBC. And it sports some great horror-comic style album art from the great Graham Humphreys. Limited to five hundred copies on 180 gram colored vinyl. © CRUCIAL BLAST
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