John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - Halloween (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018) [Hi-Res]

John Carpenter’s soundtrack for the new ‘Halloween’ movie. Spoiler: it sounds a lot like the previous ‘Halloween’ scores

“When the new Halloween movie hits theaters in October 2018, it will have the distinction of being the first film in the series with creator John Carpenter’s direct involvement since 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Carpenter serves on the new David Gordon Green-directed installment as an executive producer, a creative consultant, and, thrillingly, as a soundtrack composer, alongside his collaborators from his three recent solo albums, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.

The new soundtrack pays homage to the classic Halloween score that Carpenter composed and recorded in 1978, when he forever changed the course of horror cinema and synthesizer music with his low-budget masterpiece. Several new versions of the iconic main theme serve as the pulse of Green’s film, its familiar 5/4 refrain stabbing through the soundtrack like the Shape’s knife. The rest of the soundtrack is just as enthralling, incorporating everything from atmospheric synth whooshes to eerie piano-driven pieces to skittering electronic percussion. While the new score was made with a few more resources than Carpenter’s famously shoestring original, its musical spirit was preserved.

“We wanted to honor the original Halloween soundtrack in terms of the sounds we used,” Davies explained. “We used a lot of the Dave Smith OB-6, bowed guitar, Roland Juno, Korg, Roli, Moog, Roland System 1, Roland System 8, different guitar pedals, mellotron, and piano.”

Unlike the Lost Themes albums, where the composers wrote the soundtracks for imaginary movies, Halloween saw the Carpenters and Davies collaborating on music set to images for the first time. Though it marked a significant change from their previous creative process, the trio thrived under the constraints and tight deadlines that film scoring work demands.”

Tracklist:
01. John Carpenter - Intro
02. John Carpenter - Halloween Theme
03. John Carpenter - Laurie's Theme
04. John Carpenter - Prison Montage
05. John Carpenter - Michael Kills
06. John Carpenter - Michael Kills Again
07. John Carpenter - The Shape Returns
08. John Carpenter - The Bogeyman
09. John Carpenter - The Shape Kills
10. John Carpenter - Laurie Sees the Shape
11. John Carpenter - Wrought Iron Fence
12. John Carpenter - The Shape Hunts
13. John Carpenter - Allyson Discovered
14. John Carpenter - Say Something
15. John Carpenter - Ray's Goodbye
16. John Carpenter - The Shape Is Monumental
17. John Carpenter - The Shape and Laurie Fight
18. John Carpenter - The Grind
19. John Carpenter - Trap the Shape
20. John Carpenter - The Shape Burns
21. John Carpenter - Halloween Triumphant