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Release Date: 2020-10-31Label: The Nook Collective
Happy Halloween!The Nook Collective presents the debut solo full-length by Bradford Wallsbury.
Wallsbury brings to the table a trio of ghostly concept pieces for Halloween:
"The Fall of The House of Usher" - soundtrack to the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name - is a fusion of incidental music and standard soundtracking, involving flowing soundscapes, piano motifs, orchestration, and pounding industrial rhythms. The harrowing conclusion of the story is told through sampled spoken word from 1980's cassette-readings of the story, and emphasised through subtly crafted foley sounds.
"The Drug", inspired by Aleister Crowley's infamous short-story is a tribute to both The Beast and to the sounds of the 80's occult music scene.
"Nunc Dimittis" is Bradford Wallsbury's second rendition of this moving canticle, previously executed under the 'St. Stephen's Green' moniker (on The Nook Collective's essential collaborative album 'Antilegomena'). This version abandons the traditional choral format of the song and instead uses beautifully engineered strings and keys, with subtle ambience, taiko drums and synthesised choral vocals moving in and out of the track.
It is the song that played as antiquarian and ghost-story author M. R. James passed away in his childhood home, 1936 - whom this album takes its cabinet card cover and namesake from.