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Artist: STEVE MOORE
Title: The henge
Format: CD
Label: Relapse Records relapse {at} relapse {dot} com ]
Distributor: Masterpiece Distribution
Rated: *****

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As a half of the duo named Zombi, Steve Moore already had a certain background talking about movie soundtracks (he did the scores to "Simulations", "Home Sick" and "Murder-Set-Pieces" with Zombi and "Horror Business" and "The Redsin Tower" as solo) or tracks written with a certain cinematic atmosphere/approach. THE HEDGE is his first release as a solo project and here you can find five tracks ("Introduction", "Infinite resignation", "The henge/Ascension", "Dead tide" and "Cepheid") where Steve mixes the atmospheres of Italian and American sci-fi and horror B-movies (see movies of directors such like Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Larry Cohen, etc) of the 70's and 80's. He took as reference John Carpenter (the director and the score writer of "Halloween"), Goblin (the Italian band who scored "Profondo rosso", "La via della droga", "Suspiria", etc). I enjoyed his style which takes also classic atmospheres a la Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Popul Vuh and mix them with ambient/drone solutions, dub (see the drums on "Infinite resignation") and a little bit of doom (see the guitars and the drums on the final part of "The henge/Acension"). Steve switches atmospheres passing from ambient moments where keyboards and guitars create a thrilling ambience to soaring ones where synths drones are shaken by guitar thunders. Your movie for the ears is ready!
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Review by: Maurizio Pustianaz maurizio {dot} pustianaz {at} chaindlk {dot} com ]


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