Alan Howarth on Morricone Youth 10/23/11

On Morricone Youth this weekend, just in time for the Halloween season, host Devon E. Levins will welcome onto the program acclaimed film and television soundtrack composer and sound designer Alan Howarth for an exclusive interview and in-depth listen to his music.

From scores to special sound effects, from Halloween stalkers to STAR TREK, Alan Howarth's electronic imagination has contributed to some of the biggest genre films of t10
he '80s.  Alternately wearing the hats of both composer and sound effects man, Howarth has been a frequent collaborator with John Carpenter on his films beginning with ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK in 1980 and including HALLOWEEN II & III, CHRISTINE, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, THEY LIVE and PRINCE OF DARKNESS and has scored many on his own, including THE LOST EMPIRE, RETRIBUTION, HALLOWEEN 4 & 5, THE DENTIST, HEADLESS, BOO! And, most recently, EVILUTION and BASEMENT JACK.  He has also provided sound design for films like POLTERGEIST, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, all the STAR TREK movies, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, Coppola's DRACULA, TOTAL RECALL, and STARGATE, among others.  In 2001, Alan served as Chief Audio Officer at Electronic Arts, the video game giant.  His personal and technical interests have lead to research and development and creation of an immersive audio system that plays back audio as Sound Pixels™.  Surrounded by this 48.6 channel playback technology, he is also working with colleagues Wesley H. Bateman and Dr J.J.Hurtak in musicological research that has lead to RA Music™ consisting of frequencies defined by the Sacred Geometry of Ancient structures.

Most recently, BUYSOUNDTRAX Records has released a new recording for the 1982 horror classic, THE THING – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE, featuring music composed by Ennio Morricone for the film directed by John Carpenter.  Prior to THE THING, director John Carpenter had gained a reputation as a director who also composed the music for his own films and had begun collaborating with sound designer and fellow composer Alan Howarth on the music for his films. With the enormous success of HALLOWEEN and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, he found himself working for Universal on his first big studio film and, with a larger budget at his disposal, Carpenter was able to hire one of his musical idols to score the film. The movie’s soundtrack, though, would be a combination of both Morricone and Carpenter’s sensibilities. Characteristically, Morricone did not compose his score to picture. He composed many pieces of music inspired by the film he’d watched and by the directions he’d received from Carpenter. The music would be edited to fit the film as Carpenter wanted. During the post-production process, Carpenter decided he needed more music for the film and worked with collaborator Alan Howarth to produce some additional electronic music.  The original 1982 soundtrack release for THE THING featured Ennio Morricone’s score for the film, including a wealth of music that ultimately did not get used in the film. For this new release of music from THE THING, the music has been produced and arranged by Alan Howarth and Larry Hopkins, to include newly recorded renderings of the Morricone music (including recreations of the tracks not used in the film) and Howarth has also provided new performances of the music he produced for the film with John Carpenter, making their premiere appearance on this album. The music is presented in a sequence closer to film order.

The Thing, along with the composer's illustrious career, will be the subject of this Sunday's edition of Morricone Youth.

Listen live starting at 2pm ET on Sunday!
 
Devon E. Levins
Morricone Youth
Sundays 2:00pm-4:00pm ET

check out Alan Howarth's sites here:

www.alanhowarth.com
www.RAmusic.com
www.Transitionearth.com
www.buysoundtrax.com

The interview is archived HERE!

Morricone Youth Returns to Turtleneck 10/19

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Take off your ascot and slip into something a little more comfortable

Turtleneck!

A Retro Futuristic Playground

Join DJs Ursula 1000 and Xerox as we take a trip to back in time to the future!

...Fly with us at supersonic speeds as we take a groovy romp through

space age pop, spy soundtracks, tv themes, exotica plus all the

swingin tunes from Bedrock all the way to Orbit City.

Each Month we will feature a different $5 Specialty Martini to enhance

your listening pleasure. Tonights drink will be the Moon-tini

And in the back room we will have the finest Lounge, soul, exotica,

future jazz combos around

9:30-Score

10:30 Morricone Youth

9 pm to 4 am

Every 3rd Wednesday

Free At

Ottos Shrunken Head

538 East 14 Street

New York, NY

Ottosshrunkenhead.com

*Black Tie Optional

 

The Film Forum Celebrates Bernard Herrmann 10/21-11/3

The great master gets two weeks of films with his special brand of musical magic at Film Forum from October 21-November 3. By no means noir-centric, the festival schedule is chock full of memorable films from all genres.

Noir highlights: Hangover Square (Oct 26-27), Taxi Driver/Cape Fear (Oct 28), Vertigo (Oct 29), On Dangerous Ground (Nov 2)

Of course, plenty of other Hitchcock: North by Northwest, The Trouble With Harry, The Birds, Psycho, and The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Morricone Youth Returns to Rockwood Stage 1 Wed 10/12

 

Morricone Youth Returns to Rockwood Stage 1 Wed 10/12 10:30p FREE!

Tribute to Russ Meyer 3/21/22-9/18/04

Russell Albion "Russ" Meyer 
"King of The Nudies"
"I Was Glad to Do It"
FILM PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR
MARCH 21, 1922

SEPT. 18, 2004

Russ Meyer passed away 7 years ago today at the age of 82 of complications of pneumonia at his home in the Hollywood Hills.  A portion of today's show will be pay homage to the film music generated form his body of work.
LISTEN HERE!

2001 Pandora Peaks (video documentary)  

1979 Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens

1976 Up!

1975 Supervixens

1973 Black Snake

1971 The Seven Minutes

1970 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

1970 Cherry, Harry & Raquel

1968 Vixen!

1968 Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers!

1967 Good Morning... and Goodbye!

1967 Common Law Cabin

1966 Mondo Topless (documentary)

1966 Skyscrapers and Brassieres (short)

1965 Motor Psycho

1965 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

1965 Mudhoney

1964 Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

1964 Lorna

1963 Heavenly Bodies!

1963 Europe in the Raw (documentary)

1962 Wild Gals of the Naked West

1961 Erotica

1961 Eve and the Handyman

1961 The Naked Camera (short)

1959 The Immoral Mr. Teas

1954 The French Peep Show (documentary short)

Morricone Youth Returns to the Monthly Turtleneck Party

 Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Take off your ascot and slip into something a little more comfortable
Turtleneck!
A Retro Futuristic Playground
Join DJs URSULA 1000 and XEROX as we take a trip to back in time to the future!
...Fly with us at supersonic speeds as we take a groovy romp through
space age pop, spy soundtracks, tv themes, exotica plus all the
swingin tunes from Bedrock all the way to Orbit City.
Each Month we will feature a different $5 Specialty Martini to enhance
your listening pleasure. Tonights drink will be the Blondie
In the back room we will have the finest Lounge, soul, exotica,
future jazz combos around
Tonights Bands
9:00-MORRICONE YOUTH!
10:30-Mr Action and the Boss Guitars-Ventures cover band!
9 pm - 4 am
Every 3rd Wednesday
Free At
Ottos Shrunken Head
538 East 14 Street
New York, NY
Ottosshrunkenhead.com
*Black Tie Optional

Come welcome our new drummer Perry Morris!

Panflute Fridays

Watched Picnic at Hanging Rock and Rene reminded me about Gheorghe Zamfir, "The Master of the Pan Flute."



That's some sweet pan flute and serious 70's marketing skills! Zamfir, born in Romania on April 1, 1941, is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute (nai) of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones (additionally to the fundamental tone) from each pipe by changing the embouchure.







FILMOGRAPHY:
2010 Doina (short)
2006 The Goodbye Kiss (writer: "Suite de banat" / performer: "Suite de banat")
2005 Kill Dill (short) (performer: "The Lonely Shepherd")
2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (performer: "The Lonely Shepherd")
1998 Home Fries (performer: "You Light Up My Life", "Unchained Melody")
1997 Preku ezeroto
1994 Don't Drink the Water (TV movie) (performer: "Hora ca la Caval Shepherd's Dance")
1991 Only Yesterday (musician: "Funzulita Lemn Adus and Cintec de Nunta")
1990 Derrick (TV series) Solo für vier (1990) (performer: "If you go away")
1989 Margarit i Margarita
1986 Le caviar rouge (musician: pan flute)
1985 Paradise (short)
1984 Auf los geht's los (TV Series)
1984 Once Upon a Time in America (musician: pan flute)
1984 The Karate Kid (musician: pan flute)
1981 Intoarcerea la dragostea dintîi
1980 The Val Doonican Music Show (TV Series)
1980 Blood Wedding
1980 Der Spiegel des großen Magus
1975 La guerre du pétrole n'aura pas lieu
1975 Picnic at Hanging Rock (writer: "Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului", "Doina Lui Petru Unc" / performer: "Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului", "Doina Lui Petru Unc")
1974 The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (pan flute)
1972 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (pan flute)
1971 Eeeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe
1971 Nana Mouskouri (TV Series)

Hurricane Irene by the Italian Greats

5.8

Remembering Elvis OSTs on August 16th

This week's show is dedicated to the King.  All music from Elvis films and covers of such music.  The show is archived here as 8/14/11.

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), born in Tupelo, Mississippi, became a film star in 1956, and would go on to appear in a total of 33 feature films (25 as the leading man). Despite a strong, promising start to his acting career, Presley left Hollywood and returned to live performing in 1969, after his later films were critically panned throughout the 1960s.

1956 Love Me Tender
1957 Loving You
     Jailhouse Rock
1958 King Creole
1960 G.I. Blues
     Flaming Star
     Blue Hawaii
1962 Follow That Dream
1963 It Happened at the World's Fair
     Fun in Acapulco
1964 Kissin' Cousins
     Viva Las Vegas
     Roustabout
1965 Girl Happy
     Tickle Me
1966 Frankie and Johnny
     Paradise, Hawaiian Style
     Spinout
1967 Easy Come, Easy Go
     Double Trouble
1968 Stay Away, Joe
     Speedway
     Live a Little, Love a Little
1969 Charro!
     The Trouble with Girls

The show is archived here as 8/14/11.