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Matteus (Matteus)
Username: Matteus

Registered: 10-2014
Posted From: 93.34.67.155
Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 03:52 pm:   

Maybe I should introduce myself properly with a new thread.
Hello to all from Italy. I'm a musician and a lover of the Uncanny in all its forms.
I have to thank you all for this board: it has been (and is) a wonderful resource for many of my lurid obsessions. Please excuse my poor English (as I said, the caliber of writing here is quite intimidating...)

Now I need your thoughts and suggestions.
Is there a particular piece of music (classical or otherwise) that strikes you as campbellian? I already asked Ramsey about this a few months ago. He was kind enough to mention Leóš Janácek.

Here's what I'd say.

Naked City - Absinthe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEOd2VQmlk).
Nurse With Wound - A Sucked Orange (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siToQNODrhM) and Lumb's Sister (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9bSokitKfI);
Egisto Macchi - Quintetto seriale from Sei composizioni (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZh32gV-yk).
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Christopher Overend (Chris_overend)
Username: Chris_overend

Registered: 03-2012
Posted From: 217.33.165.66
Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 01:49 pm:   

Hi Matteus,

That Absinthe album is horrifying...
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Matteus (Matteus)
Username: Matteus

Registered: 10-2014
Posted From: 93.35.101.91
Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 10:49 am:   

Indeed, Cristopher!
John Zorn paying a nightmarish tribute to Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Verlaine: a disturbing affair.
Uncomfortable and yet beautiful music - just like Ramsey's haunting prose.
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.27.15.12
Posted on Monday, November 03, 2014 - 09:27 pm:   

That Naked City album is pretty good. I'm not sure what I'd class as Campbellian music, my first instinct would be to go with something that seems "ordinary" but has subversive and creepy elements that gradually dominate, but I'm not quite sure what would fit the bill.

I do like spooky dark ambient music in general, though I tend to listen to this station when I'm in the mood for it rather than particular artists: http://www.darkambientradio.de/news.php
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Matteus (Matteus)
Username: Matteus

Registered: 10-2014
Posted From: 93.34.66.189
Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2014 - 11:03 am:   

Thanks for the link, David.

Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt may fit your idea better - though perhaps a bit too overtly.

Schnittke, Musica Nostalgica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbc_koRgN1Q
(K)ein Sommernachtstraum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OaE_Esx8VA

Pärt, Collage über BACH - Sarabande:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH8oLn5Avp8
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 2.121.223.255
Posted on Saturday, November 08, 2014 - 02:19 am:   

I'll have a listen to those, thanks. Kirlian Camera are worth checking out as well. I have an album of theirs, Black Summer Choirs, which is punctuated by these wonderful, almost Ligottian, spoken word pieces.

https://soundcloud.com/kirliancamera
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.248.62.188
Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2014 - 06:12 pm:   

This band's albums are all going for free right now (or Pay What You Want if you feel generous). It's pretty good spooky, ambient stuff. Muro e parete and 1989 were my favourites.

https://disparition.bandcamp.com/
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.98.109.209
Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 03:14 pm:   

Well, I've just heard a piece that unnerved me very much as I hope my stuff affects some folk - Luc Ferrari's Presque Rien no. 4. It starts as a sound sketch of small-town street activity and then keeps going subtly wrong.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.29.137.115
Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 08:50 am:   

Just listened to this, Ramsey. It put me in mind of a Ballardian landscape. The Unlimited Dream Company come to town.

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