Perdition's Flames by Ion

Way back in the autumn of 2019, I was asked to write the soundtrack to a no-budget student horror film, Perdition’s Flames. The brief was fairly typical - around thirty minutes of unreleased original music, a mix of guitars and atmospheric synths.

I was sent a rough cut of the edited movie and, with that in place, quickly assembled a collection of mostly work-in-progress pieces plus one or two new creations improvised on the spot. To my surprise, everyone seemed happy. That hardly ever happens.

Then, of course, COVID struck and the project, rather predictably, died an early death, pretty much like everyone in the film, actually.

So far as I am aware Perdition’s Flames was never completed although a copy may still exist somewhere in the vaults over at Gateshead College.

The music is presented here more or less in its original form albeit slightly more polished and improved thanks to changes in technology and techniques. The titles allude to the on-screen action. Feel free to make up your own. It was genuinely fun to revisit this project.

I really would love to know what happened at the end.

Tracklist

1.	Opening Titles	1:25

2.	Blizzards at sunset	5:00

3.	Do not go outside	2:28

4.	Maisy finds a piano	5:57

5.	You expected transparency?	3:12

6.	The gentle art of seduction	4:59

7.	Nick Storm, Private Eye	1:04

8.	Last night on Vera	2:05

9.	It really is too late...	1:35

10.	Waiting for the Rapture	2:24

11.	Say goodbye	4:29

12.	End Titles - Dance Macabre	3:10

Credits

released December 23, 2024

All tracks composed by David J. Hughes aka Ion except Nick Storm, Private Eye, composed by Jennifer Lawson and David J. Hughes

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