INTRADA Announces Pino Donaggio's CRAWLSPACE

Roger Feigelson · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:47 pm **Posts:** 3415

INTRADA Announces:

CRAWLSPACE
Composed by PINO DONAGGIO
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 279

The 1986 Empire production Crawlspace afforded composer Pino Donaggio the opportunity to create an exciting, tension-filled score. Donaggio opens the program with the score’s most striking composition: a haunting, elegiac Hebrew vocal, heard in “Falling From Grace With The World.” Most of Donaggio’s music in Crawlspace alternates between mounting-tension-and-suspense cues and occasional flashes of empathetic lyricism representing the relationships of the various young women living in Gunther’s apartment complex. The composer’s chaotic“Main Title” offers a sprinkling of electronics that adds additional color to the score.

This premiere CD release of Pino Donaggio’s chilling horror score for Crawlspace was mastered from the original ¼” 15 ips two-track stereo album master prepared at KM Records and engineered by Michelle Stone for the Varèse Sarabande label in 1986. The master tape was vaulted in pristine condition.

In the film, Karl Gunther (Klaus Kinski) is an apartment building landlord who peeps into the lives of his young female tenants. Crawling from vent to vent in order to observe their sexual activity, Karl isn’t just a Peeping Tom, but a serial killer—a former doctor who practiced euthanasia before moving on to other, less subtle forms of murder. Inspired by his Nazi father, Karl keeps a woman in a cage. He’s rendered her mute by cutting out her tongue, and he slays anyone who comes near his secret upstairs lair. Ultimately, his most recent renter, Lori—a Brown University graduate (Talia Balsam)—proves to be a pluckier heroine than her predecessors. Gunther’s series of brutal killings comes to an end when he gets a taste of his own medicine in the picture’s climax.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 279
Retail Price: $19.99
Available NOW
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8817/.f

Freejack · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:04 pm

Always loved the Lp presentation of this score.

My favourite Donaggio score, Close followed by The Barbarians. :mrgreen:

Thanks for this great release.

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:13 pm

I couldn't have bought this one any quicker.

Thank you so much for saving this top-shelf Donaggio score. I probably don't want to know whose crawlspace you had to go through to find the tapes.

Roger Feigelson · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:47 pm **Posts:** 3415

Freejack · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:35 pm

Love those flipper covers.

GloryConan · **Joined:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:41 pm **Posts:** 163

Great release. Thank you! Ordered.

PS: i know it is about the content and all but i do miss the Intrada logo on the front cover of this ISC release and on some others lately. Why oh why?

JohnnyUtah · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:36 pm

Never heard this one before but really enjoyed the samples. I love these obscure 80's horror scores. Many thanks Intrada

H TRAIN · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:25 am **Posts:** 539

Totally a new listening experience for me & those samples have me sold, needless to say ORDERED.
Just out of curiosity is this movie any good?

CocoNut Joe · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 11:21 am

Another great Donaggio score to cross of my list and agrees that this is one of the better ones too...
Next one out Tourist Trap, or Intrada might do a curveball and rerelease The Barbarians :mrgreen:

Anyway, for this ocassion I´m going to build myself a toboggan with wheels, find my CDWalkman and slide around my crib listening to Crawlspace, pretending to be Claus Kinski...thats a thought...will send pictures :twisted:

Freejack · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:49 pm

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 3:59 pm

You guys are too funny. :mrgreen:

As for this release, sound quality is excellent; everything sparkles through with utmost clarity and palpable energy. An all-around great job was done back in '86 when preparing the album.

I kind of feel greedy having all of these Donaggio CDs released over the years, but I wouldn't want it any other way.

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