Disco video 4: Alan Howarth performs music from his soundtracks co-composed with director John Carpenter. This was a live set at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC April 8,2011. In this clip, the soundtrack music is the theme from "Escape from NY" , next cue is "The President at the Train", a scene with Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasence, special deleted cue "The Bank Robbery"; then a segue to "Christine Attacks", from John Carpenter's film "Christine" This is a first live performance in NYC of the film 's themes by the composer since its release in 1981. Clip is from James Plotkin who is currently editing it into a solo set and a co-performance with" Emeralds", a Cleveland based analogue synth and guitar trio. Special guest, Jade Boyd, performed VJ images . Sponsored by www.Transitionearth.com
The year after John Carpenter’s "Halloween" left its indelible mark on future developments in film and music, a stadium full of baseball fans would vent their misdirected hatred on a pile of disco records. If this was 1979’s version of 1969’s Altamont, clearly Marx was right when he said that histo...
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