Watch Joe McPhee, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Paal Nilssen-Love in Houston, 2010

Here's a trio performance by saxophone great Joe McPhee with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love back in 2010. 

Happy Birthday Don Cherry!

Here's some rare live footage of Don Cherry in Rome with Sonny Rollins in 1963 followed by Neneh Cherry's tribute and a Sun Ra duet.  

John Carpenter @ Danforth Music Hall, Sunday

John Carpenter's Anthology tour rolls into Toronto tonight – here's what you can expect from the horror maestro. 

The Thing blasts @ The Tranzac Sunday!

The Thing in Bucharest Dec. 9, 2010

Zombie Zombie heart John Carpenter

Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman of French synth duo Zombie Zombie have never encountered a creepy tune from a John Carpenter thriller they didn't like. So instead of slightly altering their favourite songs and re-recording them as their own like some of their less scrupulous Parisian contemporaries have done, they've put together the five-track musical salute Zombie Zombie Plays John Carpenter (Versatile) which includes their own eerie interpretations of the tension-ratcheting themes from Carpenter's films including Halloween, Assault On Precinct 13, Escape From New York, Escape From L.A. and The Thing which Carpenter composed with Ennio Morricone. If you've seen the films, you already know that it's almost impossible to improve on Carpenter's chilling scores. But in taking the themes out of their cinematic context, Zombie Zombie have done a fine job of bringing attention to some marvelous pieces of music which you may have missed while anticipating what might be lurking in the dimly lit room at the end of the hall.
What better way to top off the tribute project than with a stop motion animation version of Carpenter's classic 1982 remake of The Thing scored by Zombie Zombie? Directed by Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann, who evidently used their own G.I. Joe action figures, the six and a half minute clip is a mind-roasting epic of pure twisted genius as you'll see below.

Etienne Jaumet discusses John Carpenter's film soundtracks
   


The Thing by Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann