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The Body Of Horror - Music Inspired By The Cinema Of David Cronenberg

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    Anthology of horror and sci-fi tales inspired by the cinema of David Cronenberg

    Stories by: Glynn Owen Barras, Sarah Walker, John Edwin Buja, Richard Alan Scott, Andrew Coulthard, John Chadwick, Michael Housel, Nora B. Peevy, Andy Paciorek, Andrew Freudenberg.

    Curated by Raffaele Pezzella
    Published by Eighth Tower
    Language: English
    Paperback: 325 pages
    Weight:1.21 pounds (0,5 kg)
    Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches (15 x 2 x 23 cm)

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    In these pages you will find beautiful, terrifying, and disturbing stories inspired by Cronenberg’s movies, stories that deal with our fears of technological advancement, disfigurement, illness, science, experimentation, physical and psychological pain, and death. In Andrew Coulthard’s “The Six Phase,” a terrible disfiguring plague creates human monsters with a taste for flesh and violence. Andy Paciorek’s visual artwork-story tells the gory tale of a man who murders his family and blames the government for experimentation with biotechnology, genetically engineered parasites, eye webcams and other nightmares. Sarah Walker’s “Spectacular Optics” follows a character through the horrors of artificial intelligence, and in “Hangar 18,” Nora B. Peevy tells a cautionary tale about military sanctioned experimentation. Andrew Freudenberg explores the horror of a military veteran’s chip being hijacked by the Chinese military for their own development in his cyberpunk story, “Lifecycle.” J. Edwin Buja takes us in “Burning Rain” to the horrors of WWII and mustard gas, with one character bent on revenge for the pain he has suffered, and in “Beyond The Ice Palace,” by Glynn Owen Barrass, a Virtual Reality expert is employed to find and fix the bugs within a VR realm. How can a virtual world become haunted, and are there other forces at work here? Impossible horrors await Alina within the artificial halls of The Harmony Grove Hotel. Richard Alan Scott serves up a monstrous cup of tea with mysterious healing powers and side effects in “Qinglong”, and Michael F. Housel continues a Cronenberg body horror gem, in “Long Live the New Brood” (A Cronenberg Mashup). Finally, in “George Street and The Man in Black,” John Chadwick’s main character has a strange encounter in Hull, where David Cronenberg makes a mysterious, illusory appearance. Or does he? These stories will thrill you, and your delight at these disturbing tales will ease the pain that you sometimes feel as a human being and remind you that life is fleeting and delicate. I hope they inspire you to find joy in being alive and when you close your eyes at night, you remember we all share the same fears.
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    The Body Of Horror. Stories and Music inspired by the cinema of David Cronenberg

    1) Anthology of horror and sci-fi tales inspired by the cinema of David Cronenberg

    Paperback: 325 pages
    Dimensions:6 x 0.8 x 9 inches (15 x 2 x 23 )
    Weight:1.21 pounds (0,5 kg.)

    Featuring: Glynn Owen Barras, Sarah Walker, John Edwin Buja, Richard Alan Scott, Andrew Coulthard, John Chadwick, Michael Housel, Nora B. Peevy, Andy Paciorek, Andrew Freudenberg.

    2) CD compilation "The Body Of Horror. Music Inspired By The Cinema Of David Cronenberg"
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    Featuring: Sigillum S, Desiderii Marginis, Sonologyst, Mario Lino Stancati, Schloss Tegal, dodenscald, UNCODIFIED, Jarl, Mortar Devotions, Kloob.

    Mastering by Sonologyst
    Artwork by John Chadwick

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Eighth Tower Records is proud to release a compilation of music inspired to the cinema of the Canadian legendary director David Cronenberg.
More than a cult filmmaker, a true legend of the contemporary cinema, Cronenberg inspired an unimaginable number of artists all over the world and in every field of the artistic expressions. Cronenberg’s signature is a mix of graphic sex and violence broadly known as “body horror.” His early works exploited special effects to provoke audiences with bugs and parasites invading the body, exploding heads and images of genitalia intersecting violently with technology. His later films became more introspective and existential, often drawing upon Freudian theory and literary sources to consider the relationship between body, mind and technology. His work explores human fears and desires not commonly expressed in cinema, such as disease, aging, mental illness, and sexual fetishism. Cronenberg approaches the human condition through the unconscious and physical processes of the thinking animal, with an extreme existentialism that celebrates the body (in all its disgusting glory) while admitting the horror of the individual consciousness trapped within ever decaying flesh. These themes are present in Cronenberg’s early genre work, and he continues to explore them through the adaptation of postmodern literature.
“I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.”
“Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.”
David Cronenberg

Previously unreleased music by:
Sigillum S (Italy), Desiderii Marginis (Sweden), Sonologyst (Italy), Mario Lino Stancati, Schloss Tegal (US), dodenskald (Iran), UNCODIFIED (Italy), Jarl (Sweden), Mortar Devotions (Italy /Finland), Kloob (Spain). To all of them our deep thanks for joining the project.

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released March 4, 2022

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John Pereyra
The sinister atmospheres impregnated by drone overtones acquire a substance that is perceived more as horrifying than terrifying, thus coopting the essence of the producer's audiovisual speech. The triad composed of “Morphogenetic Grafts” (Dodenskald), “ConSec” (UNCODIFIED) and “Metaflesh” (Schloss Tegal) is eye-opening in this respect, with that pulsating and roaring desolation that from time to time (r) explodes thanks to harmful frequencies disruptors. A couple of feet below are the astolic heartbeat of “Dr. Benway’s Narcotics Operation” (Sonologyst), the sample that Naked Lunch makes “The Interzone” (Desiderii Marginis), the opening “A Cognitive Island Of Fake Tumor Implants” (Sigillu) m S) and the semi-industrial “House Of Skin” (Mario Lino Stancati).
The highest points on a day of sculpted noise waves that behaves like a rare fact: Jarl's excellent "Dead Zone Visions" and above all the cronenbergian genius of "Cortical Systematics", responsible for the Mortar binational trio Devotions. Made up by Italian duo Nona Et Decima and Finnish Aleksei Tsernjavski, this trinomium signs a sequenced synth horror piece of impassable kinetic compulsion. As if the American filmmaker himself had thought of and executed it - a delight.

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Mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst)
Artwork by John Chadwick
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