John Carpenter Lost Themes and Anthology Music Reviews

Filmmaker John Carpenter has done a lot of music for his movies over the decades.

He has also, along with his son Cody and nephew Daniel Davies (son of The Kinks’ Ray Davies) have recorded some original albums and re-records of some of his musical pieces.

The original albums are Lost Themes, Lost Themes II, Lost Themes III Alive After Death, and Lost Themes No. 4 Noir.

These albums could easily be soundtracks, but they are original instrumental albums.

Classic Carpenter sounding throughout, but yet still new and fresh.

The first instrumental on the first Lost Themes is one of my favorite pieces of time, called Vortex. 

And the re-records are called Anthology (Movie Themes 1974-1998) and Anthology II (Movie Themes 1976-1988).

Both are excellent compilations of various pieces Carpenter has written and recorded over the years.

And Carpenter and his son and nephew have done some concerts too (I wish they would do more so I could see them.) and documented that on a Blu-ray called Carpenter Live Retrospective.  

Awesome awesome stuff.

Check all of these out, as well as Carpenter’s many soundtracks.

He is awesome!!!