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    * A difficult birth, but happily saw light. The sound track to Britain's first ever guerilla shot acid western DAY OF THE STRANGER (Carnie Films 2020) the film received it's world premiere at Horror On Sea Film Festival January 2020!

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Snake In The Grass & One Card Left 02:59
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Thief Of Joy 01:55
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Fools Rock Closed On A Sunday 04:05
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Aspirations In Full Bloom 02:59
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Despair Greets With Fuzz Ballet 04:21

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NOW AVAILABLE AS 11 TRACK LIMITED CD! SEE MERCH FOR DAY OF THE STANGER SCORE CD!
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"Comparison Is The Thief Of Joy" so said Theordore Reserveldt
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A synthestesic atmospheric journey loosely based on Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Novella.
5 more tracks from my Day Of The Stranger score, a forthcoming feature by Carnie Films. Find volume 1 'Temptations Of The Jaded Saints' here tinyurl.com/tempwest

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released July 23, 2019

Features
Ilias Lintzos - seed pods, shakers, rainmaker, djembe, cjohn, various percussion, shallow gong & cymbals tracks #1, 2#. 3#. #5
Roots Wilson - Hammer Dulcimer track #3
Rattlesnake - itself tracks #1 & #3
Aspirations contains pizzicato samples of an unlabeled, worn 78.

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All sellections composed, produced and arranged by
Craigus Barry using various bits of musical fidgeting - Om27 Omnichord, keyboards, saw synth, oscillations, harmonium, mellotron, guitars, Ebow, toy piano, glockenspiel, harp, percussion, sampled kitchen objects/ bag of cornflakes, coconut shells, choral voices, whistling, granular synthesis, mother's music box, wind chimes, ambient noise etc.
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Recorded at Retinal HQ & Roots Wilson's gaff (basic tracking on #2) between Oct 2017 - February 2019
All tracks mastered by Adam Daffurn spring 2019
Special thanks to Roots and Ian for loaning Brazilian Toy Piano and 1950's jazz acoustic <3

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CRAIGUS BARRY:
Onetime prolific singer songwriter turned multi instrumentalist composer. Films scored : Day Of The Stranger ( Darkside releasing 20), Senseless (Trash Arts 22),
Video shop Tales Of Terror (various 22)
Pocket Film Of Superstitions (23), I Curse This Land (24)
Robot Armadillo (24)
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