Time for everyone’s favourite pagan ritual summoning holiday that has diminshed into a obnoxiously commercial and lukewarm puddle of marshmellows and lager, which still tries desperately to make us believe that we’ve been scared, and therefore entertained, by the yearly cashcrabbing, money-making, pumpkin-baking activity, which only leads to the feeling of total disillusionment and confusion what was the point of this sentence anyway!

When the time comes, Happy Halloween, folks!

NOTHING IS QUITE THERE is the title and it’s appropriate for the season. It slowly creeps in with a bang, bang & bang.

The movie I last saw in theater was “The Beyond” (1981) by the legendary smut-meister Lucio Fulci. (My last movie theater visit was like a month ago, not in 1981. It was a 4K super-duper remix) I think something from that movie carried over to our tune here. In spirit I mean, not in a taking musical influence sort of way, because the music in the movie was jazz-rock fusion, and mine’s not.

Yes, there’s some bangs (to the head), and then there’s some actual music. Off you go to the madness, in fun ofc.

Ahh, Italian horror films. There’s just something about them. Weird dubbing, unconventional plots & scores, (over)acting paired with imaginative photography, genuinely unsettling special effects, being very, very classy and trashy at the same time, and end credits that roll right after the last kill.

I think the starting point for ARPOET was the following:

– Use mostly arpeggiator synths
– Big, exotic chords
– Twist some knobs

Aaand the explanation for our three pointers there would be:

– When you press chords on keyboard, arpeggiator makes arpeggios of it, aka play the chord’s tones one at the time in a certain order
– Meaning chords with many, many individual tones in them
– Twist knobs, you know like DJ’s do – not like wrestlers do – hence altering the timbre

That’s it. The music itself is something like electronic art music to accompany time-skip videos, with Frank Zappa making special appearance in the role of the corner sun. Also, not scary, unlike…

There’s this Pigsy guy. We’ve met him before.

Who is he? What does he want? Why he doesn’t wear a cape? Why he just prances around like a darn fool?

Well, beats me.

Anyway, here’s PIGSYS RIVERSIDE ADVENTURE. It’s something that we in the music business like to call “silly stuff with fabricated real instruments & ummpah & stuff”. Plus, there’s some delightfully pointless prancing.

Coming soon: Pigsy Takes Manhattan, Pigsy: The New Blood and Pigsy vs. Freddy & Jason.