GOBLIN Contamination LP REISSUE cult Italian prog / horror soundtrack spookprog

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GOBLIN Contamination LP

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(AMS / Cinevox)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  I've been wanting to stock the pre-1990 Goblin soundtracks ever since Crucial Blast first opened it's doors, but those releases (mostly issued through an Italian label that has never had any kind of decent distribution here in the U.S.) have continued to elude me for over a decade. Until now. Now that the venerable Italian prog rock band has begun to tour the U.S. for the first time in their forty-plus year career and enjoying an ever-growing audience of old-school Euro horror junkies, dark prog fanatics, and younger fans of classic analogue synthesizer music, their releases are finally becoming more accessible, at least on vinyl.
   Best known for the music that was produced during their nearly decade-long collaboration with Italian horror director Dario Argento through the 70s and 80s, Goblin's career was kicked off with three albums of some of the best dark prog ever released. The band's debut album Roller and their first two soundtracks for Argento, Profondo Rosso and Suspiria are utter classics of vintage, spooky prog, and have had a far-reaching influence over the decades that has even reached into the realms of industrial music, black metal, and experimental electronic music. It's hard to say if Goblin's popularity would ever have reached the heights that is has if it weren't for the fact that so much of their music is inextricably linked to the nightmarish, surrealistic visions of Argento, but more than almost any other soundtrack artist, Goblin's music is often capable of offering a compelling listening experience even when heard all on their own, separated from the scenes of dreamlike horror and graphic violence that inspired them. Most of the Goblin catalog has been released on the Italian prog rock reissue label AMS, and we've finally been able to get our hands on a bunch of these classic albums, with some of them actually now appearing on vinyl for the first time ever...
  One of the most recent of AMS's Goblin reissues is this, the Italian spook-prog masters 1980 soundtrack to Luigi Cozzi's batshit alien invasion flick Contamination. This is definitely one of Goblin's lesser-known scores, and considered by many to be one of their lesser efforts, but Contamination nevertheless features enough of the band's eerie funk-damaged prog to make it an essential inclusion in your Goblin collection. For Cozzi's crazed Alien ripoff (which is, admittedly, a personal favorite of mine), the band created a wild score that combined their dark prog rock with lots of bizarre electronics, heavy doses of tropical funk mayhem, and tons of Latin percussion and tribal drumming. Glitchy computer noise and bleeping melodies swirl around the slow, doom-laden atmosphere of the opening theme "Connexion", the synths swept up in a cloud of gothic chorales, a blending of the futuristic and the ancient. A couple of tracks head into moody, heavily atmospheric Floydian space rock with sheets of gleaming electronics and organ, driven by the deep bass guitar grooves and delay-drenched guitar effects, while "Bikini Island" is ridiculously cheesy funk. The second half of the soundtrack drifts into more experimental territory: more creepy space rock laced with spooky electronic textures; stretches of sinister, sometimes atonal jazz-flecked prog; alien lullabies; dreamy sax-drenched night-jazz; disturbing electronic soundscapes. This stuff obviously lacks the witchy, phantasmic vibe of their more renowned soundtracks, and may well have far too much funk for many, but there's still plenty of their sinister synth-heavy prog here for hardcore Goblin fans to sink their teeth into.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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