{"id":3305,"date":"2011-07-30T01:11:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T05:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2011-07-30T01:11:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T05:11:54","slug":"cd-dawning-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"CD: Dawning (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0Screamworks \/ MovieScore Media<\/a> \/ Released: May 31, 2011<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 10 tracks \/ (30:25)<\/p>\n

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Composer: Nathaniel Levisay<\/p>\n

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Newcomer Nathaniel Levisay makes an auspicious splash with this wonderfully demented horror score that snarls and worms its way through classical-styled repertoire and elements of musique concrete<\/a> <\/em>\u2013 organic sounds with wooden hits, metallic grinding, shrill fiddling and close-miked effects.<\/p>\n

Based around a gentle theme played on solo piano, Levisay quickly jettisons any warm, accessible sounds for pure weirdness, starting with \u201cCan\u2019t Trust Chris With a Gun.\u201d Warped tones on scratchy strings morph into bassy groans, taps, grinding fiddling, and processed tones – all of which converge into a faux crescendo as Levisay yanks away his sounds before they can deliver a sonic wallop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Man\u201d is a modernistic brass collage that groans, twitters, and screeches \u2013 all above a constant bass tone \u2013 whereas \u201cAre You God Now?\u201d presents a busted up version of the piano theme. In \u201cWas It Beautiful?\u201d morphed sounds are further processed into blurred textures which move neither forward or backward, and the cue closes with a m\u00e9lange of grinding strings and brief declarations of discord.<\/p>\n

Levisay\u2019s essentially crafted a compact musical nightmare where silence and quiet effects are just as effective in scaring the listener as frenetic clamor. At just over 30 mins., the score manages to create the same rich terror as Jeff Grace\u2019s The Roost<\/strong> (2005), albeit with a different arrangement of instruments. Fans of early Christopher Young (or Stomu Yamashta<\/a>\u2019s weird knocking and groaning effects in John Williams\u2019 equally chilly Images<\/strong>) ought to relish the beauty of Levisay economical score, which manages to evoke more horror using less sounds than the standard Media Ventures confections slapped over the steady remakes of seventies slashers.<\/p>\n

Beautifully bizarre.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2011 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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