Moore, Steve - Cub (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
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Synthesist Steve Moore is one half of the excellent, 70s-inspired, synth/prog duo Zombi. In addition to the six albums released by Zombi, he has a prolific and thriving solo career. This album, released simultaneously with Zombi's latest, Shape Shift, is the soundtrack to a horror film and is one of his great ones, mixing spacey sequencing and droning menace. Recommended!
"Except for a few brief moments of pounding tribal percussion, Moore’s score for Cub is primarily an exercise in epic 1970s Berlin School synthesizer drones similar to the work of ambient pioneer Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream). As with The Guest, the synthesizer motifs found repeating throughout Cub draw heavily from John Carpenter & Alan Howarth's 1982 score for Halloween III, especially with its use of sudden detuned metallic clangs that often signal the beginning or end of a climatic event.
Much of Moore’s solo material has a similar tone to that of Carpenter’s, though far more muscular and progressive. Intro & Credits, The Truck, Werewolf, and Finale contain the most musical cues, while Arrival & The Treehouse are atmospheric passages that layer strings and organ to grim effect. Casselroque, Sam vs Kai, and The Hunt deliver the unsettling ambience previously explored on Moore’s two-part drone epic Vaalbara (2008).
What’s most impressive about Moore’s compositions is his ability to extract human emotions through minimal synth textures, while creating an anachronistic vibe unique to his own material. When experienced on a good pair of headphones Moore’s productions can be quite moving and in the case of Cub’s dark tone - disturbing. It’s a hypnotic journey that’s effectively unnerving.
While the niche market of horror soundtrack collectors will no doubt continue to be the primary fan base for this sort of thing, fans of minimal electronic as well as synthesizer enthusiasts will find much to appreciate with Steve Moore’s latest solo offering. At the very least, Cub is an amazing display of the warmth and texture only vintage analog synthesizers can provide."-Soundblab.com
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