John Carpenter Playing Live Retrospective Concert in New York this Summer
John Squires
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Horror master John Carpenter has a brand new album titled Lost Themes II headed our way on April 15th, which can be pre-ordered via iTunes, and in addition to recently announced tour dates in the UK and Iceland, he’s also playing live in the States – for the very first time in his career!
This coming July, John Carpenter: The Live Retrospective takes over New York’s PlayStation Theater (1515 Broadway), and not only will Carpenter perform new compositions from both Lost Themes and Lost Themes II, but the concert will also include performances of classic themes from his beloved films.
No. You’re not dreaming. This is really happening.
The fun begins at 8:00 pm ET on July 8th, and tickets go on sale this Friday, February 5th, at 12:00 noon ET. If you want them, be sure to head over to ticketing website AXS and grab them as soon as the clock strikes noon on February 5th because we can be fairly certain they won’t last long.
Lost Themes II Details:
The follow-up brings quite a few noticeable changes to the process, which result in an even more cohesive record. Lost Themes’ co-writers Cody Carpenter (John’s son) and Daniel Davies (John’s godson) both returned. Cody was recently also heard as a composer for Showtime’s “Masters of Horror” series (“Cigarette Burns” and “Pro-Life”) and CBS’s “Zoo.” Davies was a composer for “Zoo” as well as the motion picture Condemned. All three brought in sketches and worked together in the same city, a luxury they weren’t afforded on the first Lost Themes. The result was a more focused effort, one that was completed on a compressed schedule — not unlike Carpenter’s classic, notoriously low-budget early films.
The musical world of Lost Themes II is also a wider one than that of its predecessor. More electric and acoustic guitar helps flesh out the songs, still driven by Carpenter’s trademark minimal synth. This manifests itself brilliantly in songs like lead single “Distant Dream,” which hitches a familiar Carpenterian beat to an expressive drum performance and rides it to a thrilling conclusion. The eerie “Angel’s Asylum” lets an ethereal synth line command the first three-quarters of the song, before turning over the melody to an acoustic guitar, and “Virtual Survivor” delivers a blast of the sci-fi menace that characterized his great scores for films like Assault on Precinct 13 and They Live. Lost Themes II delivers eleven compelling new tracks for which fans can continue to score the movies in their minds.
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