WALTER RIZZATI House By The Cemetery LP Death Waltz Lucio Fulci splatter prog

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WALTER RIZZATI House By The Cemetery OST LP

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(Death Waltz)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Another fantastic offering from horror soundtrack reissue label Death Waltz, this new edition of Walter Rizzati's creepy, baroque score to the 1981 Lucio Fulci deathdream House By The Cemetery is a fantastic addition to the label's already uber-impressive catalog of vintage horror scores. It's also one of the stranger and more disturbing soundtracks that the label has put out, blending together delirious psychedelia and dark, sinister prog in a manner somewhat comparable to Goblin's film scores from that era, but the result is much more macabre and unusual and disturbing, perfectly suited to what is one of Fulci's weirdest films. In the past, it was difficult to truly appreciate Rizzati's score while watching the film, thanks to the cruddy, low-quality VHS releases that Fulci's surrealist video nasty received here in the States, so it's a blast to finally hear it re-mastered and presented here in isolated form.
   For Lucio Fulci's bizarre fever dream of basement-lurking corpse killers, ghostly children and brutal dismemberment, Rizzati crafted a macabre collection of pieces that served to enhance the weirdness on display, sharing in the dreamlike quality of Fulci's striking visuals and incoherent narrative. The opening track "Quella Villa" blends an eerie, heavily flanged electric guitar with distant ghostly wailing and a heavy drumbeat, piano locked into an angular syncopated rhythm, this twisted prog putting the viewer and listener off balance from the very beginning, even as it builds into a creepy piano figure around that weirdly fractured psych-guitar. The score is filled with this sort of sonic weirdness, whirling synthesizer figures and moldering acid guitar licks, the awesome mournful gothic prog of "I Remember" with those romantic harpsichord-like melodies, fluttering organ and unearthly chorales, bursts of shambolic spook-prog that sound as eerie as anything from Goblin. The score features multiple variations of Rizzati's haunting theme for the little ghost-girl that haunts the film, shifting from an innocent lullaby to a much more melancholy lament, and those moments of eerie beauty are wracked by swells of dissonant piano and droning synth. "Blonk Suspense" constructs an evil, echoing two-note piano riff around bursts of epic synth and rumbling percussion, and the prowling arrangement for "Verso il Terrore" offers another killer dose of dark progginess. The vaguely jazzy "Incontro" features more of the weird flanged guitar sounds that drift through the score, and the track "Blonk Monster" offers a surprisingly abrasive bit of distorted psych-guitar that skulks behind the bombastic synths and clanking piano riff, nauseating electronic waves rising and falling in the background, making for one of the most fearsome pieces on the album. Bizarre processed voices howl through "Voci Dal Terrore", electronically warped Latin choruses wrapping around those ghoulish synth noises, and phantasmal pipe organs are swept into eerie permutations of sacred music, strafed by tribal rhythms and warped funk guitar. And more of that disturbing guitar dissonance surfaces on "Blonk Fascia", like some mutated avant-rock draped in melting analogue synths and the bellowing of a piano being violently gutted.
  As with everything else from Death Waltz, the presentation is exquisite, the LP packaged in a gorgeously designed jacket, and features both a huge 24" by 24" poster and a 12" by 12" lithograph of Graham Humphreys's lurid cover art, along with extensive and erudite liner notes from horror scholar (and former Coil member / occasional Skullflower collaborator) Steven Thrower, author of Beyond Terror: The Films Of Lucio Fulci and Nightmare USA.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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