WARDILL, EMILY - FULLL FIREARMS (LP)

"With Fulll Firearms by Emily Wardill, Apparent Extent continues its series of film soundtracks by artists who also work in the medium of music. The film is an exploration of the narrative structures of melodrama and the conflict constellations of psychodrama following the real story and popular myths around Sarah Winchesters Mystery House in San Jose, CA. Fulll Firearms is about guilt and ghosts, instability, paranoia and loss of reality. The soundtrack is heavily inspired by the 1970s thriller and horror movie soundtracks by the Italian prog rock band Goblin. And yet Wardill's music stands on its own. The artist-composer takes sometimes poetic, sometimes definite, roughly sketched stylistic elements from the Goblin repertoire: church choirs, pseudo-baroque piano phrases, prog-rock keyboards, eerie suggestive sound effects, and suspense-genre dramaturgy. The music seems to complete the action and acoustic imagery of the film, but as a matter of fact only about 10 seconds of the music made it to the final cut of the film. The soundtrack is to be understood literally as music for, not from, the film. The music was finished before a single scene was shot and served Wardill as a source of inspiration for the development of characters and screenplay. The music for Fulll Firearms is a sort of sonic mood board, an original foundation for her film project." (label info)