Fresh news from In The Nursery as they have delivered a score for Basil Copper’s 1950s film adaptation of “The Fall of the House of Usher” (from the story by Edgar Allan Poe).

Basil Copper was a prolific writer, best known for his horror and detective fiction. His film adaptation of “The Fall of the House of Usher” was created in the 1950s and was a passion project. But it remained a personal project, unseen by the public until its discovery in a film can in Basil’s study following his death in 2013.

This version has now been professionally transferred to digital format and features a music score by In the Nursery (ITN), as originally intended by Copper. The edited version on this DVD runs for around twenty-six minutes.

ITN adapted their score for Copper’s alternative film version of the classic story noting the similarities in pace and style between Copper’s film and Jean Epstein’s 1928 adaptation, attributing this to the influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s storytelling.

The DVD, featuring ITN’s adapted score, will be included in a slipcased hardcover collection limited to 100 numbered and signed copies. ITN will also have a limited number of DVDs for sale upon release in August.

As for the hardcover book itself, after Basil Copper’s death in 2013, additional papers and manuscripts were discovered. This newly found material has been incorporated into the revised edition. The book now includes the most comprehensive working bibliography of Copper’s work, rare articles on subjects ranging from Arkham House creator August Derleth to a brief history of Count Dracula, numerous short story fragments and ideas, and a complete television script based on M.R. James’ classic horror story “Count Magnus”.

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Out on vinyl via Invada Records on 20 May 2022 is Lucrecia Dalt’s new album “The Seed”. You can now listen to the first track, “Venutian Offspring”.

The track depicts a moment of unhinged body horror, Dalt explains: “I wanted to play with the feeling of multiple paces in it, a voice pulse that keeps us grounded in the subjectivities of the women who are losing their sanity, a synth line that places us in the sci-fi side of the film, and a racing beat that ramps up the tension of all that gets unpacked in this scene.”

In “The Seed” lifelong friends Deidre (Lucy Martin / Vikings), Heather (Sophie Vavasseur / Resident Evil: Apocalypse) and Charlotte (Chelsea Edge / I Hate Suzie) travel to the Mojave Desert for some time away with the upcoming meteor shower as the perfect social media backdrop. But what starts out as a girls’ getaway descends into a battle for survival with the arrival of an invasive alien force whose air of mystery soon proves to be alluring and irresistible to them.

Dalt adds: “The score is heavily based on pulses that I made from tape loops from my Copicat tape delay, using various pieces of metal to create the sound of the horror parts by bowing them alongside digital synths and the Korg Monologue.”

“The Seed”’s release follows the Colombian artist’s collaboration with Aaron Dilloway, Lucy & Aaron, and her 2020 album “No era sólida” (RVNG Intl).

Check out the video for the single “Venutian Offspring” below.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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