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Piece of Mind on Vinyl

EarthScaper — Wed, 31 May 2023 22:53:29 +0000

Piece of Mind is the fourth studio album by Iron Maiden. It was released on 16 May 1983 in the United Kingdom by EMI Records and in the United States by Capitol Records. It was the first album to feature drummer Nicko McBrain.

Piece of Mind was a mostly critical and commercial success, reaching number three on the UK Albums Chart and achieving platinum certification in the UK and North America.

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Side: 1
1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Revelations
3. Flight of Icarus
4. Die with Your Boots On
5. The Trooper
6. Still Life
7. Quest for Fire
8. Sun and Steel
9. To Tame a Land
Disc: 2
1. The Trooper
2. Still Life
3. Quest for Fire
4. Sun and Steel
5. To Tame a Land

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The Fog Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on Vinyl

EarthScaper — Mon, 08 May 2023 16:22:27 +0000

This is the 40th Anniversary expanded release of John Carpenter’s The Fog Original Motion Picture Score from Waxwork Records. It features a 180 gram double LP album, colored vinyl, deluxe packaging, a 12”x12” twelve page booklet including unreleased behind-the-scenes set photography, and full album artwork by Jérémy Pailler.

I am a big fan of John Carpenter’s work in film as well as music. His unique and stylish approach in synthesizers is very unique and fit all his films great!

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The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook. The movie is about a glowing fog that sweeps over a small coastal town in Northern California. It brings with it the vengeful ghosts of leprous mariners who were killed in a shipwreck there about a century before.

The movie was filmed in the spring of 1979.

Tracks Included:
A1 Prologue 2:36
A2 Theme From The Fog 5:07
A3 Mathew Ghost Story 2:47
A4 Walk To The Lighthouse 2:37
A5 Rocks At Drake’s Bay 2:21
A6 The Fog 3:13
A7 Antonio Bay 4:25
B1 Tommy Tells Of Ghost Ships 2:13
B2 Reel 9 10:56
B3 Main Theme (Reprise) 1:43
B4 The Fog Rolls In 2:46
B5 Blake In The Sanctuary 7:43
B6 Finale 1:18
C1 Ghost Story 4:11
C2 The Journal 2:26
C3 Seagrass Attack 3:56
C4 Andy On The Beach 1:08
C5 Where’s The Seagrass 1:05
C6 Stevie’s Lighthouse 1:26
C7 Something To Show You 2:27
C8 An Evil Plan 2:21
C9 Weatherman 3:29
C10 Walk To The Lighthouse 2:46
C11 Dane 1:40
D1 Morgue 2:37
D2 The Fog Approaches 2:22
D3 Knock At The Door 2:12
D4 Fog Reflection 1:14
D5 Andy’s In Trouble 2:50
D6 The Fog Enters Town 7:22

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Carnival of Souls (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Music Composed and Performed by Gene Moore

EarthScaper — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:16:45 +0000

Carnival of Souls is a 1962 cult classic film and much of its dialogue is included on this gatefold vinyl including 25 tracks (15 tracks on the first side and 10 tracks on the other). The listener feels as if the characters speaking on the vinyl are literally in the room due to the authenticity of voices and the quality of the recordings. Being fans of the film ourselves, the distinctly eerie atmosphere effectively created by the director, Herk Harvey, and other film crew members along with the cinematographic visuals, which have moments of true perfection come flooding back to the mind’s eye while listening to this most enjoyable album. Film stills are included in this informative gatefold, which we still look forward to reading and learning more about this film and soundtrack.

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We made a special night of listening to this vinyl after preparing and eating a carnivalesque meal, which included Mexican portobello personal pizzas, parmesan and garlic hot pretzels sprinkled with red pepper flakes, and cotton candy ice cream for dessert. Of course, we topped off the Carnival of Souls themed evening by watching the actual Carnival of Souls film. A big thank you to my husband for coming up with the idea to have this themed experience and for giving me this most special soundtrack on vinyl for Christmas, 2022. Experiences like this are priceless!

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Franz Waxman – The Bride Of Frankenstein

EarthScaper — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:36:34 +0000

Since the classic Horror movie genre was at its peak during the pre-WWII era, Mary Shelley’s The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) starring Boris Karloff still remains the true cream of the crop. The black and white movie, directed by James Whale, is a prime example of how suspense meets great storytelling, the film’s thriller elements making it a benchmark for many film directors.

The sound era was barely 7 years old when German-born composer Franz Waxman conjured up one of its first unlikely film-music masterpieces, this 1935 score for director James Whale’s sequel to his hit Frankenstein. Indeed, Waxman created many of what have become the musical clichés of the horror genre, captured here in a spectacular new digital recording by Kenneth Alwyn and the Westminster Philharmonic; the exotic, lilting motif to “Female Monster Music” will even evoke Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Bali Ha’i,” though it was written nearly 15 years earlier! Also included is a short suite from Waxman’s score for another, less-heralded, ’30s Universal horror film, the Karloff-starring The Invisible Ray; both are thoroughly annotated in a fashion that will please fans, musicians, and scholars alike. –Jerry McCulley

This LP Album, Limited Edition only 1000 made, Green Marbled [Slime Green], 180 Gram from Germany. Composed by Franz Waxman, Born on (December 24, 1906 – February 24, 1967) was a German-born composer and conductor of Jewish descent, known primarily for his work on Bride of Frankenstein.

SIDE A:
Main Title
Prologue / Menuetto and Storm / Monster Entrance
Processional March
Strange Apparition / Pretorius’ Entrance / You Will Need A Coat
Bottle Sequence
Female Monster / Pastorale / Village

SIDE B:
Fire In The Hut / Graveyard
Dance Macabre
The Creation / The Tower Explodes / Finale

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Iron Maiden’s Remastered “Powerslave” on Vinyl

EarthScaper — Tue, 05 May 2020 17:09:13 +0000

This was Iron Maiden’s 5th studio album, released in September 1984 from their label on EMI in Europe and Capital Records in the USA. This album launched the World Slavery Tour beginning in Warsaw, Poland on August 9th, 1984.

The release has a musical re-telling of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; the lyrics have the writings of this poem. The song has a length of 13 minutes and 45 seconds! Other notable songs are “2 Minutes to Midnight” and “Ace’s High”.

I have seen Iron Maiden on tour supporting their album “Somewhere in Time” in 1987. This was a great and first concert I’ve been to! The two popular songs from this album are “Wasted Years” and “Stranger in a Strange Land”.

Powerslave Tracklist:

1. Aces High (2015 Remaster)

2. 2 Minutes to Midnight (2015 Remaster)

3. Losfer Words (Big ‘Orra) [2015 Remaster]

4. Flash of the Blade (2015 Remaster)

5. The Duellists (2015 Remaster)

6. Back in the Village (2015 Remaster)

7. Powerslave (2015 Remaster)

8. Rime of the Ancient Mariner (2015 Remaster)

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