A little over two years ago I decided to start work on a set of music that was Halloween Themed. It was something I’ve always wanted to do.
I had a couple of different tracks somewhat complete, and was considering releasing an EP of about 4 tracks or so. Last weekend as I started working back in my studio and I somehow managed to polish up a couple more tracks, and then another, to where I had what I thought was a near complete number of tracks that I could turn into a full release!
I decided to title the release Forbidden Cottage after one of the tracks I had previously written.
The Forbidden Cottage release is a bit of a homage to the classic horror movie soundtracks produced by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth who co-wrote the music to Halloween, the Fog, The Thing, Escape from New York, etc.
I still have plenty of work to do on it, and plan on spending a bit more time fine tuning and mixing this weekend. Then I need to finalize the cover art.
I also have to thank the folks at Pumpkinrot and their insanely creepy works that helped inspire me! Especially the Roots scarecrow that inspired the track March of the Inanimate.
If you want to hear the current version of it then head on over to SoundCloud and listen to Forbidden Cottage in it’s current form!
https://soundcloud.com/keithrichie/sets/forbidden-cottage
Enjoy! And let me know what you think!
– Keith
Keith Richie 