Halloween MMXX

It's been a few years since I put together a Halloween mix. Given the plagues both political and biological that are upon us, I figured we needed a soundtrack for this horror show of a year. Music from many of my favorite scary movie scores appear as well as lots of creepy dialogue and spooky samples overlapping throughout. I'm probably more excited, however, about fitting in non-soundtrack works by  Iranian artist, Pher, Austrian band,   Astaron (thx Dave R.), the mysterious Texan, Ak’chamel, The Giver of Illness, and Brooklyn duo,  Ariadne. Special inspiration this year from the stone cold classic, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, a perennial giver of frights and delights, and the "Official Witch of Los Angeles County",  Louise Huebner and her Seduction Through Witchcraft LP.  

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- Happy Halloween

 

Contents:

• The Self Fascination Ritual for Increased Power (excerpt) from Seduction Through Witchcraft (Louise Huebner)
• Halloween TV Commercial from Halloween III: Season of the Witch Soundtrack (Tommy Lee Wallace & Alan Howarth)
• A Seancing Song from Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigates Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Broadcast and The Focus Group) 
• Simon Recording from Session 9 (Movie Dialogue / Climax Golden Twin)
• The Séance / Coming from The Basement from Night of the Demons Soundtrack (Dennis Michael Tenney) 
• Utrenja from The Shining OST (Krzysztof Penderecki) 
• Get Out from The Amityville Horror Soundtrack (Lalo Schifrin) 
• Coven Metric from In Fabric OST (Cavern of Anti-Matter) 
• Witches and Wizards (excerpt) from Seduction Through Witchcraft (Louise Huebner)  
• Spellbound from Lost River Soundtrack (Johnny Jewell)
• Curse Go Back from Break Through in Grey Room (William S. Burroughs) 
• Collecting Bones from Astaron (Astaron)
• Voices in the Dark from Nine-Thirty (Jandek) / Voices of the Dead (The Medium) from Black Mass (Lucifer)
• The Shadow from Tsalal (Ariadne)
• Void Figure 7 from Insidious Soundtrack (Joseph Bishara)
• Head Less from Miscellany (Chris Carter) 
• In Evil Hour from Girih: Iranian Sound Artists (Pher)
• Instruments of the Devil from Instruments of the Devil (Artifact Shore)
• Dark Day from Garden of Remembrance (Oneiroid Psychosis)
• Dark Hat from The Totemist (Ak’chamel, The Giver of Illness) 
• Ippolita ,Daughter Of Satan from The Anti-Christ Soundtrack (Ennio Morricone & Bruno Nicolai)
• Blood By Any Other Name from Let Me In Soundtrack (Michael Giacchino)
• A Mask of Flesh from Tropical Gothic (Mike Cooper) 
• Cursed Realms (of The Winterdemons) from Black One (Sunn 0))))

Girih: Iranian Sound Artists Vol. I-IV (Zabte Sote2018)

Astaron s/t (Sealed Records 2020 reissue)

Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illneess - The Totemist(Akuphone / 2020)

Ariadne - Tsalal (Auris Apothecary / 2015)

Louise Huebner - Seduction Through Witchcraft (Warner Bros - Seven Arts / 1969)