{"id":10027,"date":"2014-11-08T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10027"},"modified":"2015-12-01T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:06:52","slug":"cd-scream-in-the-dark-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10027","title":{"rendered":"CD: Scream in the Dark (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"ScreamInTheDark_s\"<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>: MVD Audio \/ Elite Entertainment<\/a><\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong> \u00a0January 14, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong> \u00a010 tracks \/ (61:26)<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong> Dante Tomaselli<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crafted like an old-time spooky LP (Nightmare<\/strong> and Son of Shock! <\/strong>certainly come to mind), this concept album by filmmaker Dante Tomaselli features an hour\u2019s worth of themed tracks which are largely comprised of drifting sound effects, drones, shrieks, twisting leather, grievous knife usage, and the occasional morsel of music.<\/p>\n

The writer-director-composer often creates temp soundtracks prior to filming \u2013 this CD may well be an unofficial compendium of material from his last two films \u2013 and it\u2019s exceptionally mastered with mostly digital sounds and assorted samples heavily processed and layered with precision timing to create a surreal soundscape that ebbs and undulates instead of startling and jabbing the listener. The downside is there\u2019s very little music \u2013 samples, fragments, and snippets maybe, if not a few recurring bass chords \u2013 which give the CD\u2019s final third a meandering quality, but it\u2019s a fun evocation of grim scenarios, if not a cavernous haunted house where you have to listen and feel around to reach daylight.<\/p>\n

Note: Interviews with Dante Tomaselli from 2014<\/a> and 2007<\/a> are also available.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan; this review originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of Rue Morgue magazine.<\/p>\n

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — Composer on IMDB<\/a>
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Crafted like an old-time spooky LP (Nightmare and Son of Shock! certainly come to mind), this concept album by filmmaker Dante Tomaselli features an hour\u2019s worth of themed tracks which are largely comprised of drifting sound effects, drones, shrieks, twisting leather, grievous knife usage, and the occasional morsel of music…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[70,3113],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2BJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10027"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12713,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions\/12713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Follow-up albums include\u00a0The Doll<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0Nightmare <\/strong><\/a>(2015).<\/p>\n