Музыка и песни Zoltan / Zoltan

Magma für Holzbläserquintett; Juntos für Violine & Klarinette; Extravaganza für Flöte & Klavier; Eos für Flöte & Klarinette; Neon für Klarinette & Klavier; Kymata für Violine, Horn & Klavier

This is heavy stuff. Not really heavy in the sense of 'heavy metal'. It is more heavy in the sense of 'heavy to digest'. London based Zoltan worked on a 4 track EP which is a hommage to Amando D'Ossorio's four movie series from the 70's. Ossorio created with this circle a highlight in European horror movie. The names of the films are reflected in the song title - Tombs of the blind dead", "Return of the blind dead", "The ghost galleon" and "Night of the seagulls". The four tracks on the album can be seen as a kind of modern soundtrack for each of the four film. They are all instrumental with depressive and creapy keboard passages as well as threatening basslines. The creepy atmosphere of each song fits perfect to a horror movie. Again, we are not really talking about metal when it comes to this EP, but from an atmosphere point of view some horror metal bands could learn something. If music is emotion, Zoltan can celebrate a success with this four track disc. Maybe the EP doesn't become everyones darling since it is special. Check it out and create your own opinion Record Label: Rise Above Style: Metal

digipack. London's instrumental outfit known as Zoltan are cut from the same macabre musical jib here on their First Stage Zoltan debut as Pittsburgh's diabolical duo Zombi, in that both acts evoke powerful, minimalistic grandeur with layers of electronic ambiance. The influences behind Zoltan's dark and creepy sound emerge primarily from the obscure recesses of 1970s Italy, namely the cult film soundtracks of composers Fabio Frizzi and Stelvio Cipriani, both of whom scored numerous, grotesquely artistic horror flicks during the country's cinematic boom of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Films such as The Beyond, Nightmare City and Lucio Fulci's classic Zombie are all prime examples of Zoltan's musical inspiration at work, while similar stylistic avenues also emerge from the synthesizer fog here, not the least of which are the equally classic film/score works of American horror director John Carpenter. There is a malicious, bass-driven undertone to the band's work which works hand in hand with Zoltan's higher, more ambitious orchestrations, the moods of which link quite often with the jazzier end of 70s film scores, a la Alain Goraguer's Planete Sauvage, for example. Indeed, while shades of Halloween certainly permeate Zoltan's electronic symphonies, there exists a certain depth to the band's composition which lifts them above mere homage and plagiarism into the upper echelon of their field; deserved praise for a band so relatively new to the scene, yet utterly deserved: Zoltan totally rules. Record Label: Cineploit Style: Electronic