DISK/CTM presents Goblin at Donaufestival
// Date: April 23, 2009 // Time: 19:00 // Venue: Donaufestival, Krems, Austria   DISK/CTM is very proud to announce the first concert in 32 years of legendary italian prog-rock band Goblin, best known for their congenial collaboration with horror film master Dario Argento. The concert is a coproduction with the reknown Donaufestival in Krems, a small town situated 70 km from Vienna.   Goblin will perform live in an a church from the 13. century. The band will play in the original line-up of 1975 when they released their first record "Profondo Rosso" – except for one change: instead of original member Claudio Simonetti, Aidan Zammit will play keyboards. They will perform a selection of their classic songs and soundtracks – partly with a video component featuring excerpts of Argento's movies – along with material from their 2005 album "Back to the Goblin" and new, yet unreleased pieces.   Afterwards, in the small hall of the festivals main venue, Zombie Zombie and Turzi, both heavily influenced by Goblin's groundbreaking work, pick-up Goblin's legacy to catapult it into todays club culture. Meanwhile, more psychedelic madness – allthough of a slightly different type, drawing more from punk rock and free-form noise – will be curtesy of Black Dice and the Butthole Surfers in the main hall.   A definite must go for all fans ob Goblin, the films of Dario Argento and George A. Romero,  and the wide realm that open up between weird psychedelica, prog-rock, italo disco and horror OST's!   Goblin started in 1974 as the progressive rock group Cherry Five. The name Goblin first appeared on the map in 1975, when the band recorded the soundtrack for Dario Argento's "Profondo Rosso". This was the starting point for a decade long, highly creative and widely influential collaboration between the eccentric film maker and Goblin, that made the group become the aural signifier of the Italian horror film movement of the seventies and the eighties. Till the late eighties they released two studio albums and wrote scores for about 20 films of various directors, including Joe D'Amato and Luigi Cozzi. With OST's for the Argento cult films "Profondo Rosso" (1975), "Suspiria" (1977), "Tenebre" (1982) and "Phenomena" (1985), as well as for the European versions of George A. Romero's classics "Martin" (1977) and "Dawn of the Dead" ("Zombi", 1978),  Goblin created some of the most thrilling pieces of soundtrack music ever made. While Argento undisputedly masters color and composition, Goblin's suggestiv and complex symphonic scores mark a demarcation line when it comes to dark atmospheres, suspense and stirring drive. In combination they create the unique, highly stylized, surreal and psychedelic experience, that made the movies become cult classics.    One does not exaggerate, when allocating the haunting main theme of "Suspiria" – the film and soundtrack being also a huge inspiration for John Carpenter's "Halloween" – the status of a musical icon. With its sweet, lullaby-like melody and deep, disturbing bass it has set the blueprint for modern, eerie, bone chilling horror movie soundtracks. The song, as many other Goblin pieces, has had a huge influence on subsequent musicians up till today, reaching as far as from the Italo Disco cuts of Rotterdam's Clone and Bunker Records to Mike Patton's Fantomâs project, who recorded a version of "Suspiria" for their Directors Cut album. In 2007 Justice achieved dancefloor acclaim with the track "Phantom", which at its core was nothing more than an altered version of Goblin's "Tenebre"-theme, that hurrled Goblin back into the attention of a wider audience.   Goblin had split apart in 1989 giving room to the various solo projects of Claudio Simonetti, Massimo Morante and the other band members. In 2001 the band reunited to record the soundtrack for another Dario Argento film, "Non ho sonno". In 2005, now without founding member Claudio Simonetti,  Goblin recorded their third studio album Back to the Goblin.   Their show at Donaufestival will be the first live concert of Goblin in 32 years. It will feature Fabio Pignatelli (bass), Massimo Morante (guitars), Maurizio Guarini (keyboards), Agostino Marangolo (drums) and Aidan Zammit (keyboards).   More information on Goblin: > www.goblinhome.com > www.myspace.com/backtothegoblin > Medley of Goblin on Italian TV in the 70ties > Goblin's famous Suspiria theme > Theme from Profondo Rosso > Main title for the European version of Gerorge A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead"     Zombie Zombie The story saying that Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Nerman first met during a film retrospective of horror director, Dario Argento, is nothing but a wild rumour. However, it is true that the two Parisian musicians have breathed new life into the old school horror cinema with their krauty psychedelic disco sounds, in part inspired by Can, Silver Apples and Goblin: when they get their live-drums and analogue synths out on stage and space echoes of tortured howls fill the air, you can see George A. Romero’s zombies dancing in John Carpenter’s ghastly waft of mist. A limbo party for the undead, a feast for the living! > Zombie Zombie profile on CTM-website > www.myspace.com/therealzombiezombie     Turzi Electronic Experience Turzi rank among the pioneers regarding neo-psychedelia made in France. Their narcotic, large-scale krautrock sound is definitely closer in spirit to the 1970s German/Italian version – from Can to Ennio Morricone, and of course Goblin – than to the current French club-exports by Ed Banger et al. With his solo project, Turzi Electronic Experience, band leader, Romain Turzi, above all pursues the electronic side of this era, which also produced the industrial and techno pioneers, Kraftwerk, and which he conjures up by means of hypnotic sounds coming from the depths of the analogue keyboard.   The first album of Turzi A came out in 2007 on Record Makers – home to AIR and Sebastien Tellier – after a six-track LP Made under Authority was produced by Romain Turzi alone in the kitchen of his Paris apartment and released on the same label in 2005. Romain Turzi also runs a label called Pan European Recording.   > www.myspace.com/turzi > Turzi page on Recordmakers.com     More on Black Dice Brooklyn-based Black Dice have disengaged themselves from traditional sound schemes and ordinary band structures. The brothers, Bjorn and Eric Copeland, together with Aaron Warren have created a joyful spectacle of noise, influenced by various musical genres – such as punk, noise, industrial, psychedlica and dub – as well as urban everyday culture. Black Dice zoom deep into the frequencies until the original melody crumbles, energetically stacking the manipulated fragments upon each other in endless loops. The New Yorkers most recently attracted attention with their affinity towards beats and harmonies.  In Krems, Black Dice will present their latest album, “Repo”.  > www.myspace.com/blackdicemyspace > www.blackdice.net       More on Buttholesurfers: Founded in Texas in 1981,this band, renowned for its anarchic humour and unsettling stage appearances, belonged to the 80’s noise-rock fraction of the New York School with a tendency towards psychedelia. The Buttholes never considered themselves to be too good for dirty embarrassments but rather butt-shakingly accepted the image of weirdos-in-charge, also cultivating it in terms of their music with their love for the experiment. In the meantime, they have come to outgrow their all too adolescent anti-stand even if moments of evil wit still dangerously pop up here and there. The Butthole Surfers are currently touring with their old, ’80s line-up consisting of Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey and Teresa Taylor. > www.myspace.com/losbuttholesurfers > www.buttholesurfers.com       Information on the festival and tickets:  > www.donaufestival.at	> April 23, 2009
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