Swedish band Death And Vanilla have just released a 'livescore' for Jonathan Miller's television dramatisation of an M.R. James story, Whistle and I'll Come To You, as a limited edition white vinyl record and as a digital download. It is in effect an imagined new soundtrack to the classic 1968 BBC ghost story.
The ambient, atmospheric music has a melancholy, wistful (and whistlefull) tone, and includes eerie naturalistic effects of the winds, sands and sea. The group's inspirations include "60s sci-fi soundtracks, the [BBC] Radiophonic Workshop" and retro-futurism, placing them in the Ghost Box and hauntology mode. Their interpretation certainly complements Miller's low-key, grainy photography, use of near- silence and murmurs, and subtle invocation of the sinister.
(Mark Valentine)
I listened to it briefly and purchased it.
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