Charles Wain - The Last Wave (1977 Original Soundtrack) - LP Vinyl

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c0009814
UPC:
643597936576

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Album:
The Last Wave (1977 Original Soundtrack)
Artist:
Charles Wain
Format:
12" Vinyl
UPC:
643597936576

Description

The premiere soundtrack release to Peter Weir’s 1977 Australian New Wave classic, featuring a lost electronic score from the enigmatic composer Charles Wain. 12-track LP sourced from the original stereo master tapes, 180g vinyl and deluxe packaging including archival film stills and original press material.

The Last Wave (also known as Black Rain in the US) was the final chapter in a trilogy of films scripted and directed by the leading auteur of the Australian New Wave, Peter Weir. Beginning in 1974 with the absurdist black comedy-horror The Cars That Ate Paris, and followed a year later by the lush gothic mystery Picnic At Hanging Rock, The Last Wave was a landmark in existential horror. Sitting alongside other Australian eco-terror films (e.g. Long Weekend) the film featured a haunting electronic soundtrack that is as mysterious and beguiling as the spiritual themes of the film itself.

With no LP issued after the films premiere in 1977, and together with the mystery surrounding the true identity of its enigmatic composer ‘Charles Wain’, the score is a largely unheard recording of pioneering experimental film electronics, easily compared to the music that contemporaries Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream were composing for Australian films during the same period or the electronic soundtracks of John Carpenter. Tense atonal electronics, synthesizer drones and manipulated Didjeridu all perfectly capture the film’s ominous atmosphere, punctuating the slow hypnotic pace of this brooding supernatural thriller. The Last Wave soundtrack is released in conjunction with the lost film music to Nicolas Roeg’s 1971 New Wave masterpiece Walkabout composed by John Barry.
1Driving Home
2The Vault
3David’s Dream
4Man In The Street
5Angels
6The Warning
7Driving Near Bridge
8The Acceptance
9Black Rain
10The Descent
11Charlie Charlie
12The Drowned World