Beyond the Black Rainbow [Original Soundtrack]

Black Mountain's keyboardist Jeremy Schmidt released his solo debut album, The Enchanter Persuaded, in 2006 under the Sinoia Caves moniker. That set made a real impression on film director Panos Cosmatos. When he made his feature-length Beyond the Black Rainbow and needed music, he sought Schmidt out. The latter was so impressed, he composed an original score for it. The film is a grainy, creepy-crawly, nightmarish film inspired by pulp sci-fi and '80s-era midnight cinema (à la Videodrome, The Thing, Scanners, etc.). It received enough decent reviews on the festival circuit to get a theatrical release in 2012 and then vanished. Jagjaguwar and British soundtrack reissue label Death Waltz Records have teamed to commercially release Schmidt's score. It was all composed on vintage gear: analog synthesizers, Mellotrons, sequencers, arpeggiated synth pads et. al. While Tangerine Dream's soundtrack for Sorcerer is an obvious touch point, so are the self-composed, synth-created scores for dire