The Seattle ambient-noise group score a Ridley Scott classic.
When you like a movie - no, LOVE a movie - you want to make it your own. Whether that's practicing your Jedi saber skills or covering the original theme, cinematic tributes are some of the most fascinating things to find. But rarely does a band create a 2-hour soundtrack. Tonight, Freakout Records will release Newaxeyes' 'The 8th Passenger,' a 2-hour double-cassette of the band's soundscapes for Ridley Scott's 1979 classic, 'Alien.'
From Freakout Records:
"At the beginning of 2015, Newaxeyes was approached by celebrated Seattle film arts organization Northwest Film Forum to perform an original live score to a film of their choosing as an installment of NWFF's Puget Soundtrack series. The band chose Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror masterwork ALIEN for the thematic and aesthetic resonances that they found between the film and their work. Relationships between human and machine, primal psychosexual associations, The Other, and the work of H. R. Giger were among the many elements of Alien that the band investigated and incorporated in their 2-hour score."
Newaxeyes will release the 2-hour soundtrack on double-cassette via Freakout Records at Fred Wildlife Refuge tonight at 7PM. You can also catch Freakout Records at CHANNEL Fest Saturday 7/15, also at Fred's!
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Words by Megan Ternes
