Tonight of the Living Dead
Artist: 400 Lonely Things
Album: Tonight of the Living Dead
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Uncompressed audio on compact disc, with 12-page insert of photographic treatments from Night of the Living Dead is available at 400lonelythings.com
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Catalog Number: 400LT-4 • PIMALIA-7
UPC: 754422713825
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A remix project over a year in the making, Tonight of the Living Dead is a dreary and sorrowful collage of treated audio (and imagery) taken from a public domain edition of the 1968 George Romero film Night of the Living Dead.
With their tendency for darkish music told mostly through samples, remixing Night of the Living Dead is a project ideally suited to 400 Lonely Things. While so many are indebted to this movie for introducing them to the world of horror cinema, Tonight of the Living Dead pays tribute to a lesser-known legacy of this film: the ground-breaking precedent of plunderphonics and remixing established in the composition of the original 1968 soundtrack.
Crew and cast member Karl Hardman, under the editorial supervision of George Romero, took recordings by other composers from stock film music libraries - many of which had already appeared in other movies and television shows - and then “augmented them electronically” to form their own original score for Night of the Living Dead. 400 Lonely Things has extended this notion of augmentation by using mutated samples from the film itself (many with their excellent foley work intact) as the only ingredients, and woven these treatments into a subtle and creepy audio companion that should appeal as much to fans of the film as it will to listeners of dark ambient, plunderphonics and experimental music. This appeal may even extend to fans of classical music and film soundtracks with a taste for things on the fringe.
While the film is noted for how it straddles a line between social commentary and drive-in shlock with a kind of clunky elegance, 400 Lonely Things’ Tonight of the Living Dead focuses on the more understated and haunting moments of this movie, focusing more on the fragility of Barbra and the relentless inevitability of waiting in an old farm-house for the world to end.
400 Lonely Things is Craig Varian and Jonathan McCall.
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MUSIC VIDEO FROM TONIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
The music video for the song Tonight - a collaboration between 400 Lonely Things and film-maker Phil Harrell - premiered at the Flyway Film Festival’s International Zombie Summit on Oct. 25 in Pepin Wisonsin, between showings of Colin and Pontypool. Pontypool producer Jeffrey Coghlan says of the video “Never has the term ‘what’s old is new again’ ever held more truth. Entertainingly hypnotic and inventive. I loved it.” Jane Radion Newton of pioneering industrial / avant-garde recording artists ClockDVA and T.A.G.C. was kind enough to write “The stark imagery and your music work emotively and atmospherically well together as one. Chillingly beautiful.”
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PRESS QUOTES, REVIEWS AND ENDORSEMENTS OF TONIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
“Fascinating CD. I found the album very memory invoking. Listening to Tonight of the Living Dead was like musically leaping back in time to relive all the nuances of my character Barbra’s struggle to survive all the horrific night terrors forced on her in Night of the Living Dead… a soul searching CD.” - JUDITH O’DEA, “BARBRA” IN NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
“It’s clear from the finished product that 400 Lonely Things’ album is meant as a sincere tribute to the zombie masterpiece.” - RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE
“400 Lonely Things has nailed a hard-to-find sub-genre of dark music on the head, that many of us in the horror community have been yearning for… More than just a CD for fans of the macabre.” - BLOODYDISGUSTING.COM
“A genuine tribute to a deserving classic.” - DREADCENTRAL.COM
“A fantastic dark atmosphere.” - MIDNIGHT PODCAST
“Awesome… A must have for genre-fans.” - KILLER REVIEWS
“…A tool for horror fans to relive one of the greatest horror films ever made in a whole new way. Highly recommended.” - SEND MORE COPS
“The mood evoked in Tonight of the Living Dead remains consistent throughout… a pervading, quiet terror.” - SCOTT KENEMORE, author THE ZEN OF ZOMBIE
“We can tell you first-hand the album is seriously cool.” - SCARS MAGAZINE
“Tonight of the Living Dead is a long melancholic walk through the shadows in George Romero’s world. It is a compilation of sound that evokes the raw grittiness of the film. In the movie, you see Barbara’s horrific flight from a zombie that killed her brother. With Tonight of the Living Dead, you actually feel it.” - A WORLD ON FIRE
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Tracklisting:
- 1 It Begins
- 2 Tonight
- 3 This Old House
- 4 No Answer
- 5 The Music Box
- 6 Crickets Window
- 7 Cellar Company
- 8 Another Fire Always Smiles
Download one-sheet pdf here.
Download zipped folder of high-resolution art samples from the compact disc edition here.
View a scan of Rue Morgue Magazine article on Tonight of the Living Dead here.
Email 400 Lonely Things here.
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