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Antonio Bay (Alternate Soundtrack to John Carpenter's 'The Fog')

Spooky...

Every now and then I like to have fun and write alternate soundtracks to films that I like. They are not always finished pieces, often just snippets, but some are pretty interesting. Personally I find it a good challenge to try and capture the musical essence of images. Not always an easy thing to do.

“Antonio Bay” is an alternate soundtrack (ok, snippet of a soundtrack) for John Carpenter’s 1980 film ‘The Fog’ – not the crappy 2005 re-make. I have done other alternate soundtracks based on John Carpenter films like ‘Music For The Escape’ for ‘Escape From New York’. Carpenter was a king in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

Proudly I can say that it is completely different to Carpenter’s brilliant piano score for the movie. To create the full effect I sampled part of the famous John Houseman opening monologue from the film. I think it works pretty well. I especially like the atmospheric harmonics on the second guitar, it almost sounds like a vibraphone.

I recorded this track a long, long time ago – maybe even late 1990s. I don’t have any notes on it, but I do remember recording it at night with the lights down low to get into the mood. The sound quality is not fantastic but not too bad for a short snippet.

Anyway, it is just a atmospheric, spooky piece of music that I hope you might find interesting.

I’ll be back to song writing on my next post.

Hope you enjoy!

Antonio Bay (Alternate Soundtrack to John Carpenter's 'The Fog') by The East Village Vampire is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at soundcloud.com/the-east-village-vampire/antonio-bay.