Jon Brooks - Music For Thomas Carnacki (Radiophonic Themes & Abstracts)

From Cafe Kaput

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Well, here it is. I'm proud to announce KAP002. This release ties in directly with Weird Tales For Winter (see below post), as it's the radiophonic soundtrack composed specially for the 'Gateway Of The Monster' episode. The material is directly inspired by all of William Hope Hodgson's 'Carnacki The Ghost Finder' short stories.

 

The tracks on this release are mastered directly from the original tapes and presented in their entirety; in the Weird Tales programme, some tracks are edited or used as excerpts.

 

The material was composed between March and November 2010 and covers a lot of sonic ground. There are grand electronic themes, little melodies which crop up throughout, contrasted with dark, abstract musique concrête textures composed directly on tape recorders (with the inherent hiss and hum artifacts being a celebrated part of the composition). Horgan, treated cello, theremin and prepared xylophone all make an appearance, too.

 

The release will of course feature a lavish, hi-res graphic sleeve by Ian Hodgson and accompanying sleeve notes as a PDF, as part of the download.

 

As usual, the release will be available from Bandcamp for £6.99 from Saturday 5th February, with iTunes and Amazon following a couple of weeks later, for £7.99.

 

Really hope you all enjoy this one.

 

- Jb.

noice!

oooooooh

lovely

good news!

it is!

I'd never heard of the stories before this album, but read a couple lately and they're genuinely frightening. Great album as well, looks like Cafe Kaput's going to be a bit of a gem.

anyone heard jon brooks other projects.. mainly "king of woolworths"?

any good?

I've got 'Ming Star'. I found it pretty unremarkable myself. Much of it sounds a lot more abrasive to my ears than his Advisory Circle and Cafe Kaput stuff. Apart from 'The Watchmaker's Hands' there seems little melody to speak of and a few too many bog-standard beat and sample orientated tracks. Not shit, I'd say, but certainly disappointing for me after being introduced via The Advisory Circle. Maybe I should give it another go, I dunno.

thanks for info .. may eventually try those.

mista brooks did fine job on 'primitive london' tho/too (!)

music for thomas carnacki on vinyl- trimmed to 17 tracks but comes with download code of the digital version

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/152079-jon-brooks-music-for-thomas-carnacki

ordered

https://soundcloud.com/normanrecords/carnacki-mix

sold out @ Norman