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| Looks sweet but sound library ace Gerhard Narholz cooked up some dark horror soundtrack vibes with John Fiddy on bass. |
Neither the jacket design nor the generic title "Descriptive Solo Bass Instruments" of this 80s-looking sound library recording gave much away about what was in-store. But the German Sonoton label typically has high-standards and I found that out first hand back in the mid 80s when I stumbled onto Sam Sklair & Gus Galbraith's trippy futuristic electro treat "The Micro Chip Revolution" (SON 168) which is still my fave Sonton release and deserves to be reissued on vinyl (listen here).
While it was extremely unlikely that "Descriptive Solo Bass Instruments" would be in the same league, the fact that it involves "Mac Prindy," one of the many aliases of the prolific Gerhard Narholz (aka Sammy Burdson, John Epping, Norman Candler, Xyco, etc) along with UK sound library veteran John Fiddy & British jazz bass ace Christopher Laurence, was at least promising. Add to that the track titles, "Demon Dance," "Tyrannosaurus" & "Dissolution" and there was reason enough to look past the cheesy powder blue script sleeve typography to plonk down a dollar for it.
This time the risk paid off as Herr Narholz and associates delivered the deep dark horror soundtrack vibes for Sonoton SON 157 on a few enjoyably creepy albeit short tracks amongst the anticipated load of shlock you typically encounter with production music releases. Just the sort of thing you hear in movie just before something bad happens. Have a listen below.
