Bleep

John Carpenter is best known as a Hollywood film director whose work includes classics such as Halloween, Escape From New York and Big Trouble In Little China. What is perhaps less well known is that he also composed and performed the soundtracks to all those films himself, and to a small but devout following Carpenter is now venerated as much for his music as for his movies. As the title suggests, this is the first time Carpenter has released his compositions without the customary moving images to accompany them. The result is a collection of powerful and emotive pieces, produced in collaboration with his son Cody and godson Daniel Davies, which utilise piano, guitar, drums and Carpenter’s trademark synths to conjure the soundtrack to a unique movie which will only ever be seen in the imagination of the listener, but is no less affecting for it.

CD and Vinyl track lists do not contain the remixes