We've decided the shadows have had enough of us for a while. Time to face the musick...

Monday 27 July 2009
The Scala

SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS...

GOBLIN + MIASMA & THE CAROUSEL OF HEADLESS HORSES

Goblin started in 1974 as the progressive rock group Cherry Five. The name Goblin first appeared on the map in 1975, when the band recorded the soundtrack for Dario Argento's "Profondo Rosso". This was the starting point for a decade long, highly creative and widely influential collaboration between the eccentric film maker and Goblin, that made the group become the aural signifier of the Italian horror film movement of the seventies and the eighties. Till the late eighties they released two studio albums and wrote scores for about 20 films of various directors, including Joe D'Amato and Luigi Cozzi. With OST's for the Argento cult films "Profondo Rosso" (1975), "Suspiria" (1977), "Tenebre" (1982) and "Phenomena" (1985), as well as for the European versions of George A. Romero's classics "Martin" (1977) and "Dawn of the Dead" ("Zombi", 1978), Goblin created some of the most thrilling pieces of soundtrack music ever made. While Argento undisputedly masters color and composition, Goblin's suggestive and complex symphonic scores mark a demarcation line when it comes to dark atmospheres, suspense and stirring drive. In combination they create the unique, highly stylized, surreal and psychedelic experience that made the movies become cult classics.

Support comes from Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses. Featuring members of Guapo, Chrome Hoof, Ulver, Æthenor, Sunn O))), Mothlite, this instrumental quintet plays dark, antiquated sounding music encompassing elements of Eastern European folk, avant-psyche-rock, neo-classical film composition and elements of progressive bands such as Goblin, Univers Zero and Magma. Their music could easily be the soundtrack to an Alejandro Jodorowsky film.

Time: 7:30pm
Admission: £20 in advance. All scala events are 18+ unless otherwise stated.
Tickets: www.ticketweb.co.uk 08444 771 000 or Scalas box office between 10am and 6pm Mon-Fri

You'll find it here.

From the Southern Website:

3 tracks 21 minutes. With much inspiration from the occult, they craft complex instrumental works full of twists and turns with the collision of victoriana and prog, incredible.

01. Manticore
02. Taus
03. Garp Gadriel
Total Running Time: 21:18 mins

Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses were a must-have for the Latitudes series. An essential live band on the London underground scene, Miasma have wowed many an audience over the last year with their virtuoso performances.

With much inspiration from the occult, they craft incredibly complex instrumental works full of many twists and turns with the collision of Victoriana, prog, an abundance of intelligence and respect for musicianship. It was no surprise when Daniel told me that he was working on the Latitudes material some time before the studio date "scoring the woodwind section". In many ways this material is their most accomplished to date. All the instrumentation has progressed from their debut recording, the excellent Perils LP, and the addition of the bassoon is genius creating new layers and a whole other dimension to the Miasma vision.

Any opportunity to see this band live and to be carried away by their sheer ability should be grasped with both hands. In the meantime let this document serve as your key to their otherworldly realms.

Andrew Hartwell, Southern Records, June 2007

OUT NOW. BUY IT HERE.

We have parenthetically adorned a glossy facade...

I've heard tell of an island, some twenty nautical miles from the coast of Portugal, a carious fortress of brown stone whose barnacled cliffs betray no hint of the old monastery whose sun-battered roof is wedged into a hazardous ravine like a splintered toothpick. The inhabitants may once have been pious but now their bald pates shelter no religious thought, only a salty determination to complete The Task: they are illuminating a manuscript so fiendish that mistakes, though numerous, result in complete destruction and starting-from-scratch. The withered and sweating ape-men, hunched over their desks continually strangulate their cries, rise and throw the goat-skin parchments upon the blazing fire before returning to their quills and curdled ink. Each man has given up all hope, for he knows that never in his lifetime shall he see the completion of the Rock Family Tree for the Carousel of Headless Horses and Related Groups...

Sir Peregrine Worsthorne

Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses
Hoxton Lab
April 7th
CANCELLED due to venue closure!

Four consecutive cancellations... It's becoming a farce... Or a curse? I suspect some interloper is stirring the cauldron unfavourably.

Hopefully see you all at the Windmill on the 21st... Although it will probably burn down before then.

We just finished a Latitudes session for Southern Records. A suite of arthurian malaise adeptly engineered by the resplendent Harvey Birrell. Should be out early 2007. Stay tuned for more counsel.

Æthenor: Deep in Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light
Released: November 21st 06

From the VHF website:

vhf97 Æthenor Deep in Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light LP/CD
Debut by trio of Stephen O'Malley (Sunn0)))), Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo), and Vincent de Roguin (Shora). Taking its title from The Iliad, the music here is deep and cosmic, completely unlike anything you'd expect from such heavyweights. More in the tradition of Nurse With Wound's "Spiral Insana" or Klaus Schulze's "Cyborg" than any contemporary trend, the tracks float along in a masterful collage of activity, where careful scene changes highlight O'Sullivan's classic but artfully placed Rhodes bombs, de Roguin's organ, and O'Malley's guitar. Extraordinary effort has gone into editing, mastering, and shaping these pieces, these are not tossed off improvisations or side-project orphans. Housed in CD and LP jackets hand-printed by Alan Sherry/SIWA. First VHF vinyl in 7 years!

Sound samples available here.

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