Maps, aka James Chapman, has released his long-lost horror soundtrack, Welcome To The Tudor Gate, today via Mute.
Listen to the album as one continuous piece HERE, accompanied by horror inspired visuals.
Welcome To The Tudor Gate is James Chapman’s soundtrack to a half-remembered film, watched late into the night and forgotten for years until nebulous stills and scenes came back into his mind - so to fill in the gaps, he decided to create its soundtrack.
Recorded in 2014 and lost until now, he explains, “Inspired by a film that I was never able to trace, I set out to create a mysterious, strange and uneasy soundtrack, with a nod to the fantastical. I imagined a protagonist venturing into a foreboding land of immense forests, filled with mysterious beings - where magic is real, and witchcraft is feared.”
The album is a 37-minute piece, separated into “chapters”. It flows together with no gaps, following the film’s hero throughout their journey.
He goes on to expand, “The 'Tudor Gate' of the title was originally envisaged to be a 'community' or 'cult', influenced by films like Blood On Satan's Claw and The Wicker Man. The music itself is influenced by ‘60s and ‘70s horror soundtracks to films by Dario Argento and John Carpenter but also to writers like H.P Lovecraft and the world of 'weird fiction'.”
Welcome To The Tudor Gate - we hope that you will never leave…
Welcome To The Tudor Gate is out now on Mute. Stream or purchase it HERE.
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