I just finished binge watching the show "Stranger Things". I loved the '80s set piece and it made me feel very nostalgic for a pre-cell phone world. One of my favorite aesthetic parts is the series opening credit sequence graphics and music. It reminded me alot of those old Goblin scored movies on vhs in my youth, which in turn reminded me of the contemporary band #zombi . Zombi are a two piece instrumental band originally from Romero country. They play progressive rock that is based on vintage synthesizers and polyrhythms. I remember going to check the band out at a small defunct Buffalo venue called Soundlab in 2009. I was amazed that the band replicated their songs live. The two multi instrumentalists calmly performed these long dynamic songs building dynamic tension and dissolving them masterfully, it really was something to behold. The vintage keyboards give the songs a very eerie quality that they owe to all the sci fi/horror soundtracks of the '80s which created that tonal perspective. It's really cool how the band straddles the line of vintage/contemporary sound and this stuff is interesting enough where it doesn't relegate itself to "background" music (no small feat for instrumental outfits)
If any of the producers of the show #StrangerThings stumbled across this blog I would implore them to have the band score future episodes. And to use a colloquial ism of the period: Man, that would be radical.
No thesaurus was harmed during the making of this blog. I pride myself on vocabulary.
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