EVENTS

SYNTH HISTORY X VIDIOTS: ICONIC SCORES

SHOGUN ASSASIN

7:30 PM LOS ANGELES | SOLD OUT

Join us this holiday season to watch medieval samurai Lone Wolf wander the countryside with his young son to seek revenge against those who murdered his wife!

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Directed by Robert Houston and his partner David Weisman—a protégé of Andy Warhol and the director of Ciao! Manhattan, 1972—the film features an incredible synth-laden soundtrack composed by W. Michael Lewis and Mark Lindsay.

AND, according to a 2010 article by Robert Barry in The Quietus, 

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“The film’s credits also list “psycho-acoustics” by Malcolm Cecil. Whether this is the same Cecil who, along with Robert Margouleff, played synths on Stevie Wonder’s early 70s albums and formed TONTO’s Expanding Head Band, I have been unable to ascertain. However, seeing as how Cecil went on to work on a number of films in the 80s and 90s (including Spike Lee’s (1991) Jungle Fever), and Margouleff had worked with Weisman as co-producer on Ciao Manhattan, it seems more than likely. This raises the enticing possibility that the modular synthesizer used on Shogun Assassin, and sampled on GZA’s Liquid Swords, was in fact TONTO itself. The Original New Timbral Orchestra was the world’s first analog synth to feature true multimbral polyphony.”

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See you there! Tickets are limited.

Of course we’ll have some special surprises for y’all, too.