Lost Themes IV: Noir

Description

Since the first ‘Lost Themes’, John has referred to these compositions as ‘soundtracks for the movies in your mind.’ On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs ‘noirish’ is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it, as in connected in an emotional way.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. My Name Is Death – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
2. Machine Fear – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
3. Last Rites – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
4. The Burning Door – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
5. He Walks By Night – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
6. Beyond the Gallows – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
7. Kiss the Blood Off My Fingers – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
8. Guillotine – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
9. The Demon’s Shadow – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
10. Shadows Have a Thousand Eyes – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies