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Skeleton b​/​w Unclean Spirit

by John Carpenter

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Michael Hojjatie
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Michael Hojjatie Brilliant, as always. Favorite track: Skeleton.
Robert Wertz
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Robert Wertz More excellent non-soundtrack cuts from John and co. can't wait for the album! Favorite track: Unclean Spirit.
Televiper
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Televiper John Carpenter continues to innovate and deliver highly attractive, darkly inspired synth music. These cuts build on his previous decades work yet sound utterly contemporary. Favorite track: Unclean Spirit.
Andrew Hector
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Andrew Hector The master is back. Favorite track: Skeleton.
Mark Ashton
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Mark Ashton John, your music never fails to move me, I loved your early Movie scores but your recent lost theme albums and this new release even surpass your previous work
You are a musical genius and I can’t wait for the forthcoming new Halloween soundtracks
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Legendary composer/director John Carpenter has returned with his first non-soundtrack music since 2016’s Lost Themes II. Collaborating again with son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, his bandmates and co-composers for the David Gordon Green-directed Halloween films, Carpenter is sharing the propulsive new single “Skeleton” and its B-side, the haunting “Unclean Spirit.”

The sessions for these songs saw the trio shifting their focus from scoring for the screen and engaging a totally different creative muscle. Instead of being guided by what was happening in the world of Halloween, they were free to work toward other ends.

“It was refreshing to be able to write music that didn’t have to fit to any sort of locked image,” John said. “We also had a specific focus and direction we wanted to follow when working on Halloween, both in terms of mindset and instruments, and being able to return to working without that narrow focus was refreshing. Although working on Halloween didn’t specifically influence any of these new compositions, there is always a honing of craft that must take place when working on a film like Halloween, and our improved skills definitely helped us in writing these songs.”

Working together to score a major Hollywood production only deepened the collaborative chemistry between the three composers. That comfort level paid dividends, as the songs developed largely in the room where they were recorded.

“Like the majority of the songs that we write, both ‘Skeleton’ and ‘Unclean Spirit’ mainly started with an improvised riff, which was then expanded and built upon to create the full song,” John explained. “Like the previous Lost Themes album, we each handled duties of writing and recording, with all three of us contributing ideas and parts.”

“Skeleton” and “Unclean Spirit” are the first taste of a batch of new music that will eventually yield a Lost Themes III, and with the composers hard at work on the music for Blumhouse’s Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, there is plenty more music to come. Even for the famously prolific John Carpenter, this might be the most fertile creative period of his life.

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John Carpenter has been responsible for much of the horror genre’s most striking soundtrack work in the fifteen movies he’s both directed and scored. The themes that drive them can be stripped to a few coldly repeating notes, take on the electrifying thunder of a rock concert, or submerge themselves into exotic, unholy miasmas. It’s work that instantly floods his fans’ musical memory. ... more

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