The Call Of Cthulhu by David Thrussell and Shinjuku Thief
The Call Of Cthulhu is the latest spoken word exploration of the works of H.P. Lovecraft's works by David Thrussell following on from his Nyarlathotep And Other Tales Of Cosmic Dread album, this time he turns his attention to The Call Of Cthulhu and gets Shinjuku Thief or Darrin Verhagen to provide the dark ambient soundtrack that brings this classic horror tale to life once more, with a little additional help from Matthew Murana. Who have created a perfect album to be listened too on Halloween or certain other dates.
The double album splits The Call Of Cthulhu into three chapters so that we start with The Horror In Clay with an ambient intro, before David begins his narration of HP Lovecraft's classic tale in his deep burr, slowly beginning to relate this tale from the deep and the dark age it may herald, while the ambient sounds conjure up the journey, we are about to go on. The slow piano mirrors the old article the professor found along with the notes he made back in the winter of 1926/7 in Providence Rhode Island. The notes are found after his sudden death and taken by the Probate officer of his will to Boston where he reads and follows the tale of Professor Angel's discovery of a Clay bas-relief of this lost animal, part human, part dragon, part Octopus and where Cthulhu reigned deep below. Just spending time with the clay is enough to induce a fever and malaise, though dreams that appear to him as reality, of the monster before him, the dreamscape transforming the dreams to reality, yet on waking up his mind was a blank. The dreams come to many during the same weeks with very similar visions of the monster and the mass panic they caused.
The Tale Of Inspector LeGrasse takes us further into the journey that Professor Angel takes, going back to 1908 and St Louis over pulses and bass inflections, he meets Inspector LeGrasse and the rare statuette from a voudou meeting south of New Orleans and the cult it linked too. The dark magick and ancient knowledge that emanates from the statuette and everything connected to it. While the first spell is cast by the swamp, worshippers seek to wake Cthulhu from his slumbers and the terror it awakens. To the sounds of the Ton Ton and the drum core takes over drawing us deeper into the mire, horns shriek, voices babble and they then send 20 police to investigate in the swamp. They arrive at a ceremony and the chants of the celebrants in their human abnormality, the fire and monolith they dance around. The police behave like American police and open fire while trying to round everyone up, killing five and injuring others, before the spirits rise and baffle the police investigators. Taking us deep into ancient history and what happens.
The second album takes us deep into The Madness From The Seas, beginning in Relayer hidden somewhere in the deserts of Arabia, over tribal beats and ambient synths, we delve into the Necronomicon and the meanings of certain phrases, finding out just what those dreams mean. The various academics whose love of ancient histories find more answers, while of course raising more questions, the Journey south upon the high seas, battle noises and the sea welcoming them to the depths below. Should they go on, well of course they do, to a mysterious island and the deaths that occur there. How do you find this hidden island and why do these events only occur on certain dates, how does the numerology work among earthquakes in Dunedin, opening portals to the subterranean city, from the earthquake born tempest and what it eventually revealed, the great stone pillar that has emerged from the sea leading to the realm of the elder demons beneath.
The strings swirl and foghorns bellow beneath the tempests furious winds, what will emerge from the miasma, what is that beastly sound threatening to overwhelm us, they landed on that island and finally are confronted by the nightmare corpse god Cthulhu, who crushes several sailors into jelly, Cthulhu chases after the fleeing sailors who try to fight against the monster, only one can survive to tell the tale and we must all fear Cthulhu's return. Where you can find the accursed manuscript and how it wields its power and potency are explained, before the sirens call emerges through a widescreen percussive landscape to bring us back to safety once more, are we ever safe from Cthulhu.
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