Buio Omega

Music by Goblin

 

 

 

 

 

On the predominantly erotic production of director Joe D'Amato, his alternative thrillers/horror are recognized as the best of his output. Buio Omega (1979) is a good example of horror B movie exploring the explicit excesses of the splatter movies.

The Goblin soundtrack already orients to jazz-rock and use of electronic rhythms almost techo-pop. The main theme Buio Omega and his version on Keen are detachable as classics of the group. Some tracks like Pillage and Bikini Island remind the jazz-rock of late 70´s (Jean-Luc Ponty, for example). The film has a minimum of dialogues and the music has constant importance. The introspective theme Quite Drops, for piano, is the most present theme on the film, and Ghost Vest for organ gives sound alternative to the set. Bikini Island is a jazz-disc swing for a bar scene, one of the few times that the movie (and the player) gets out of the house´s confinement in search of new victims. The Cinevox CD includes alternate takes and varied arrangements. Curiously is not a soudtrack of gruesome climates, but its technological aesthetics and clean sound give it a curious emotional absence paralleled to the absence of care in D'Amato´s narrative.