NEW/MINT/SEALED CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD DEATH WALTZ RARE SUBSCRIBER 12" LP LOOK

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Artist
FABIO FRIZZI
Title
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Format
12" vinyl LP
Date of Release
June 21, 2014
Country of Manufacture
UK
Label
Death Waltz Recording Company
The Art of Soundtracks Catalog DW029DL Condition New, mint, original factory sealed condition
Info
MEGA RARE Death Waltz subscriber only edition exclusively pressed on 180gram vinyl with black and purple haze with white splatter on one side & black and burgundy haze with translucent red splatter on the other; limited to only 300 copies worldwide.  Includes exclusive 12 x 12 subscriber lithograph.

The definitive version of this classic Italian soundtrack includes 17 newly mastered tracks including a previously unreleased cue Occhi Di Brace and an exclusive 10 minute suite of the score recorded live at the Union Chapel in 2013 during Fabio Frizzi’s first ever live performance in the UK and included here as a precursor to a full live album coming in the fall of 2014.  Housed in a heavyweight tip-on, case-bound gatefold jacket printed on beautiful textured Galtex Prima card containing an exclusive full colour booklet with liner notes by Composer Fabio Frizzi, Star Lombardo Giovanni Radice, Italian horror expert Stephen Thrower and Artist Graham Humphreys wrapped in an OBI strip.
"Death Waltz Recording Company have been hard at work exhuming a true classic of horror scoring, and the result stands out like a nail through an eyeball. Directed by gorehound favourite Lucio Fulci, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD’s incredible score comes from a true master of ferocious film music, Fabio Frizzi (THE BEYOND, ZOMBI 2), and provides a sonic experience not easily put down. All the ingredients you’d imagine are here: eerie synth lines, horrific violins, and the funkiest bass known to man or zombie – and Frizzi uses them to maximum effect to overwhelm the listener like the hordes of undead they score.

What Frizzi does so easily is make the instruments into weapons to assault your senses, and as such CITY is an intense aural journey, but certainly not one that’ll have you reaching for the off switch. The score is mesmerising with some moments of true beauty, not least in the instrumentation. Electric guitar in particular is used wonderfully to provide colour, and both real and electric pianos add a certain foreboding mood to the score. And then there’s that portentous male choir, always there in the background, waiting. Like the zombies themselves, it’s omnipresent and a symbol of inevitability. And it’s inevitable that you will adore CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD."
Tracklist
A1  Introduzione  4:11
A2  Fatti Misteriosi  2:52
A3  Toward Dawn  1:20
A4  Apoteosi Del Mistero  1:10
A5  Occhi Di Brace  3:17
A6  Verso L'Alba  1:48
A7  Irrealtà Di Suoni  2:55
A8  Toward Dawn  1:21
A9  Paura Vivente  1:26
A10  Paura E Liberazione  2:37
B1  Toward Dawn  1:38
B2  Suoni Dissonanti  2:54
B3  Apoteosi Del Mistero  3:56
B4  Embers Eyes  1:46
B5  Tenebre Viventi  2:16
B6  Dissonant Sounds  1:24
B7  Toward Dawn  1:05
B8  Paura Nella Citta Dei Morti  2:43
B9  Viventi Live Suite  7:14

The spine reads: "It's Her... Mrs Holden. This Morning She Was Inside A Coffin At The Funeral Home, And Now She's Here In My Kitchen!"

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Bio
Fabio Frizzi (born July 2, 1951) is an Italian musician and composer.

Born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, he is best known for his film scores. A frequent collaborator with famous horror director Lucio Fulci, his scores have become some of the most widely known in the genre.

Partial filmography
Carambola (1974)
Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket (1975)
Dracula in the Provinces (1975)
Four of the Apocalypse (1976)
Get Mean (1976)
Sette note in nero aka The Psychic (1977)
Silver Saddle (1978)
Cindy's Love Games (1979)
Zombi 2 (Giorgio Cascio) (1979)
Contraband (1980)
City of the Living Dead (1980)
The Beyond (1981)
Manhattan Baby (1982)
Super Fanta Genio (1986)
Cat in the Brain (1990).

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City of the Living Dead (Italian: Paura nella città dei morti viventi [English translation: Fear in the City of the Living Dead], also known as The Gates of Hell) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is the first installment of the unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy which also includes The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery. Fulci makes an uncredited cameo appearance as Dr. Joe Thompson in the film.

After Father William Thomas (Fabrizio Jovine) hangs himself in a cemetery, the gates of Hell are opened. Zombies with the abilities of super strength, teleportation and levitation appear and start killing off people in a remote town. Psychic Mary Woodhouse (Catriona MacColl) appears to die of fright during a seance, and is buried – only to revive, buried alive, in her own coffin. Investigating reporter Peter Bell (Christopher George), who is intrigued by the case, is present at the grave-site and rescues her – only to learn it is all fated as part of a prophecy in the Book of Enoch. The death of the priest is only the beginning, and they both must travel to the rural town of Dunwich, New England and close the portal to Hell before All Saints Day, or the spirits of the dead will overtake the Earth.

Cast
Christopher George as Peter Bell
Catriona MacColl as Mary Woodhouse (credited as Katriona MacColl)
Carlo De Mejo as Gerry
Janet Agren as Sandra
Antonella Interlenghi as Emily Robbins
Giovanni Lombardo Radice as Bob
Daniela Doria as Rosie Kelvin
Fabrizio Jovine as Father William Thomas
Luca Venantini as John-John Robbins (credited as Luca Paisner)
Michele Soavi as Tommy Fisher
Venantino Venantini as Mr. Ross
Enzo D'Ausilio as Sheriff Russell's deputy
Adelaide Aste as Theresa
Luciano Rossi as Policeman #1 in Theresa's apartment
Robert Sampson as Sheriff Russell
(partial uncredited cast)

Lucio Fulci as Dr. Joe Thompson
Michael Gaunt as the Gravedigger #1
Perry Pirkanen as the Blonde Gravedigger
James Sampson as James McLuhan; Séance Member
Martin Sorrentino as Sgt. Clay
Robert E. Warner as the Policeman Outside Theresa's apartment building

The exteriors for the film were shot partially in the United States in both New York City, New York and Savannah, Georgia which stood in for the fictitious town of Dunwich. Manhattan exterior locations were filmed mostly in the Upper West Side, including the Gothic apartment house which stood in for the character Madame Theresa's apartment which was located at the northwest corner of West 76th Street and West End Avenue. The cemetery where the character Peter Bell rescues Mary Woodhouse from her sealed coffin was filmed in an area of Calvary Cemetery overlooking Manhattan. Bonaventure Cemetery features prominently as the Dunwich Cemetery location in which Father Thomas hangs himself and where the protagonists must go to battle his entombed corpse. All of the interiors were filmed in Rome, Italy at Dear Studios.

During filming, actress Daniela Doria actually vomited sheep entrails during the intestine purging scene.

City of the Living Dead was released to U.S. screens in May of 1983 as The Gates of Hell through Motion Picture Marketing, a now defunct small American independent distributor. After the film was screened in Los Angeles, California with Fulci present for a Q&A, he was met with heaving booing from the very angry remaining audience.

On 25 May 2010, Blue Underground released a Blu-ray of the film, which includes the documentary Making of City of the Living Dead. A Special Edition DVD (region 1) was also released the same day, with the making-of documentary on it as well.

In the early 1980s, this film was passed by the BBFC for cinema exhibition with only the infamous "head drilling" scene cut. The same X version was released on video around the same time. Post-Video Recordings Act, it was submitted to the BBFC for official video release and received further cuts to the vomiting scene and the brain crushing scenes. In 2001, it was re-submitted and passed uncut.

On 24 May 2010, Arrow Video released the definitive one-disc edition on Blu-ray and two-disc DVD.

The film was initially released uncut in Germany under the title Ein Zombie hing am Glockenseil but was banned shortly afterwards. Since then, the film has been re-released several times under various titles (Ein Toter hing am Glockenseil, Eine Leiche hing am Glockenseil, and various other international titles) in cut and uncut form. All of these releases have subsequently been banned. The only exception is a version named Ein Kadaver hing am Glockenseil which is missing nine minutes of footage and has been rated 16 by the FSK.

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, City of the Living Dead currently has an approval rating of 55%, and is certified "rotten".[2] Allmovie wrote that while the film "suffers from the same shortcomings present in much of Fulci's other horror films", "City of the Living Dead benefits from Fulci's ability to create and sustain an intensely creepy atmosphere", though ultimately calling the film "a dry run for the blend of graphic shocks and surrealism atmosphere that Lucio Fulci would perfect with The Beyond."[3] Time Out called the film "laughably awful", though "with its nonsensical 'plot' randomly constructed according to the illogic of fear, and its grotesque emphasis on physical mutability, fragmentation and decay, it could just conceivably be the sort of disreputable movie the surrealists would have loved."

- wikipedia