The Fast 5~ a serious of questions that gets to the point right away~! No pandering around just the answers you want to know. So with the Fast 5 we are cutting through all the run around of some interviews, all though we will still do those too, we just wanted to give you something different. Blazing Minds will always give you something interesting, we are not the usual lick in Entertainment Blogs and we know our readers aren’t the usual lick either~ Enjoy this Fast 5 and the many others you will be seeing now and in the future..
1. What’s your sound?
Instrumental music in the form of retro horror film scores – soundtracks for films that exist only in your imagination.
2. What inspires your music?
Horror films of the ’70s and ’80s and the low budget synthesizer and prog rock scores that accompanied them.
3. Who are your influences?
John Carpenter, John Harrison, Goblin and Fabio Frizzi are the most obvious examples among soundtrack composers, along with other electronica artists like Gary Numan, Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre. I also more subtly draw upon a ludicrously wide variety of genres for inspiration, stretching from hip-hop to industrial, power pop to baroque.
4. What’s next?
I’ve begun work on a third faux soundtrack very loosely based on the tragic story of Elisa Lam, a young Canadian lady who died under the most mysterious of circumstances at a supposedly haunted hotel in Los Angeles. It could be seen as a semi-sequel to Kish Kollektiv’s 2018 album, “Children of the Cambion” (which was inspired by the black-eyed children urban legend). The Ruscara Laudanski character reluctantly returns from self-imposed isolation for one last paranormal investigation when her wild, thrill-seeking cousin goes missing after unwisely dabbling with the so-called “Elevator Ritual”, a way of accessing a deserted parallel Earth via – you guessed it – an elevator.
5. How do we find you on Social Media?
A bit about Kish.... Born of Italo-Celtic stock into a slowly rusting northern England in the throes of Thatcher-era de-industrialisation, the young Michele Sarto (“Mike” to those closest to him; other people just can’t pronounce the name properly) was bitten by the horror bug early. After having been “encouraged” to sit through an uncut version of Lucio Fulci’s surreal schlock masterpiece “City of the Living Dead” at the age of 6 by mischievous elder cousins, a lifelong fascination with the darker side of fiction was born. Equally haunted and excited by aftermath images of reanimated corpses, horrific “skull-crush” kills and a young woman literally vomiting out her innards, another element of that particular production was to make an indelible impression on the young Sarto; the maestro Fabio Frizzi’s masterful synthesizer-driven score.
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