♫♪  The Octopus Project - Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter OST [preview]

Here’s one for the TMT Film goers reading that yung Chocolate Grinder section right now. Famed Peek-A-Boo Records group The Octopus Project made the full soundtrack to new movie Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (in theaters worldwide March 20), and good-old Illuminated Paths was there to snag it on the reel. Scope the preview, please:

Slightly similar in sound to how The Valerie Project provided music for Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, The Octopus Project takes listeners on a journey, whether they’re watching the movie or just imagining the circumstances of rising and falling sounds. Like a swirl of smoke, there’s a specific direction at first, but whether it billows or continues to roll in the wind is a direction each puff must take unwillingly, forced into a pathway that is merely reliant upon the notion of chance. This is exactly what’s happening in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter OST for listeners without the visuals of the movie as guidance. And considering the possibility that this tape will be heard before witnessing the flick, all your imaginations will be soaring. Take flight in the realm of the unreal. Follow The Octopus Project into another trek across your brain’s dunes.

Now, this is almost a rite of passage for Illuminated Paths — outside Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter OST their 100 cassette mark — by being honored by the most popular group that has dawned upon their label’s lineage. And as the heads at Illuminated Paths had admitted to me, “[it’s] our first big release and foray into film score.” I don’t know if I find this necessarily true, considering a lot of their releases (example from this year) could totally double as a motion picture score. Oh, but back to The Octopus Project on Illuminated Paths: these tapes are extremely limited to 50 and professionally pressed and sealed for the FRESHNESS of it (PRE-ORDER HERE; ships March 13). They also come with an exclusive free download code of unreleased/unmixed/unmastered mp3’s of a live show performed by The Octopus Project in 2007 recorded by Joshua Rogers of Broken Machine Films in Orlando, Fla. All other versions (digital, CD and vinyl) can be obtained when released on The Octopus Projects own personal record label.

• The Octopus Project: http://www.theoctopusproject.com
• Illuminated Paths: http://illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com

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