From Paracinema: written during their giallo marathon, a wonderful bit of writing on why A Quiet Place in the Country could be considered a giallo...
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Goblin!!!
Not a day goes by that I don't listen to some Goblin. Before I became well versed in Eurocult beyond Fulci, Leone and Cannibals, I had no idea who they were. I remember loving Romero's Dawn of the Dead's really awesome score and not having a clue who was behind it.
One track stuck in my head, as Peter, Fran, Scott and Flyboy land their helicopter on the Monroeville Mall roof, this crazy, discordant synth cue was forever stuck in my gray matter. When I realized Goblin were behind the soundtrack, I became a fan.
To me a great piece of a film music instantly flashes whatever scene it played behind. When I hear that cue, I see the quartet of survivors stunned and scared at the scene below and then I get their madness as they decide to hole up in the mall.
For years and years, this was my favorite Goblin track. A decade ago, thanks to dvd I got into Eurocult seriously and bought myself a multi-region player. High on my Castellari kick, I bought dvds from Europe and Japan including King Records La Via Della Droga.
It was there I discovered my all time favorite Goblin track, sequence 2 (starting at 2:12 here), the Hong Kong credits music from La Via Della Droga. I kid you not, I must have repeated that sequence at least 10x before I let the film continue (and hey, Fabio Testi topless is an equally nice incentive :D). The music evoked Oriental thoughts so clearly and conflicted with Testi's Narc so perfectly...
It was years before I could just watch La Via Della Droga without repeating that scene before moving forward. It kills me that the otherwise awesome Blue Underground release of La Via, has a serious sync lapse/skip in the soundtrack as the previously unseen earlier moments in Amsterdam flow into the Hong Kong moments.
More recently, I've begun to appreciate the short version of Deep Red and with it, a good deal of Goblin's score. While Suspiria seems to be a lot of people's favorite Goblin soundtrack (it is one of the best things about that film), it's not mine. Yep, La Via Della Droga is my favorite Goblin score. You get all kinds of neat things (the weird synthy stuff, a sense of place (like my beloved sequence 2), some great bass work, awesome rockin' tunes etc.
So grazie Goblin for making some of the most memorable, fun and insane soundtracks.
One track stuck in my head, as Peter, Fran, Scott and Flyboy land their helicopter on the Monroeville Mall roof, this crazy, discordant synth cue was forever stuck in my gray matter. When I realized Goblin were behind the soundtrack, I became a fan.
To me a great piece of a film music instantly flashes whatever scene it played behind. When I hear that cue, I see the quartet of survivors stunned and scared at the scene below and then I get their madness as they decide to hole up in the mall.
For years and years, this was my favorite Goblin track. A decade ago, thanks to dvd I got into Eurocult seriously and bought myself a multi-region player. High on my Castellari kick, I bought dvds from Europe and Japan including King Records La Via Della Droga.
It was there I discovered my all time favorite Goblin track, sequence 2 (starting at 2:12 here), the Hong Kong credits music from La Via Della Droga. I kid you not, I must have repeated that sequence at least 10x before I let the film continue (and hey, Fabio Testi topless is an equally nice incentive :D). The music evoked Oriental thoughts so clearly and conflicted with Testi's Narc so perfectly...
It was years before I could just watch La Via Della Droga without repeating that scene before moving forward. It kills me that the otherwise awesome Blue Underground release of La Via, has a serious sync lapse/skip in the soundtrack as the previously unseen earlier moments in Amsterdam flow into the Hong Kong moments.
More recently, I've begun to appreciate the short version of Deep Red and with it, a good deal of Goblin's score. While Suspiria seems to be a lot of people's favorite Goblin soundtrack (it is one of the best things about that film), it's not mine. Yep, La Via Della Droga is my favorite Goblin score. You get all kinds of neat things (the weird synthy stuff, a sense of place (like my beloved sequence 2), some great bass work, awesome rockin' tunes etc.
So grazie Goblin for making some of the most memorable, fun and insane soundtracks.
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