John Carpenter‘s Lost Themes LP is out now on Sacred Bones. Recorded in collaboration with his son Cody, of the prog/fusion band Ludrium, as well as his godson Daniel Davies, who composed the songs for I, Frankenstein, Carpenter’s album celebrates the glory days of synth music thru nine rousing themes–as well as track remixes by Zola Jesus, Blanck Mass, JG Thirlwell, and more.
This week the acclaimed director and musician released a video for the cut “Night,” directed by Gavin Hignight and Ben Verhulst. Discussing the video, Hignight explaines:
“Upon Hearing “Night” by John Carpenter, my head was instantly filled with these nighttime highway road dreamscapes. Someone, or something, haunted, traveling the road alone in the late hours. Our goal was to take that feeling and put it into a video that paid tribute to the film work of Carpenter, but at the same time gave him a new world to play in… in this case, literally through Virtual Reality.”
Indeed, here we see the auteur don his VR goggles and data gloves, sending his avatar out into the virtual night where he meets an equally menacing figure with samurai sword. While I definitely wouldn’t want to mess with Mr. Carpenter, or his bad-ass avatar, the guy only brings a bat to a knife fight?
