Manos: The Hands Of Fate Goes Vinyl

Manos: The Hands Of Fate
OST Getting The Vinyl Treatment

The Master Would Approve

August 3rd 2015, NYC, NY – Ship to Shore PhonoCo. announced today that – as decreed by their god of primal darkness – they have pressed the original soundtrack to Manos: The Hands Of Fate onto glorious vinyl and are now taking pre-orders for the LP, which is to be released mid-September!

“The score to Manos: The Hands of Fate was a complete and magical surprise. Away from its charmingly inept Poverty Row cinema origins, Russ Huddleston and Robert Smith, Jr’s score is revealed as a maddening vortex of incessant light jazz – trapping you inexorably in the dubious company of Torgo and his punitive Master. It comes over like killer Krzyzstof Komeda cues for an early Polanski short, or an early 60s Chico Hamilton session… Ship to Shore have clearly seen Manos with better ears than the rest of us who have relegated / elevated it to lazy “Worst Movie” status for the last half century, and as a listening experience they have finally revealed it to be as much fun as a Russ Meyer soundtrack or a truly demented stream-of-consciousness radio play.”

– Scott Johannsson, Damn Fine Podcast/Ondes Positives Recordings.

The track listing for the album is as follows:

SIDE A:

Family Vacation
Love Inside This Magic Circle
Baby Do A Thing With Me
Adrift in a Sea of Madness
Caretaker
Decision
Portrait of Evil
Dog of Death
Perversion, Ignorance, Apathy
Tomb of Darkness
Torgo’s Lament
The Search Continues
Prayer to Primal Darkness
A Strange Gait

SIDE B:

Uncontrollable Passion
A House Divided
Manos, Thy Will is Done
Chaos
An Unfulfilled Desire
The Servant Fails the Master
Sacrifice
The Futility of Fighting Fate
Manos Has You Now
The Circle of Fate
Forgetting You (Love Theme from Manos: The Hands of Fate)

This limited edition release features exclusive liner notes on a 4 page booklet insert by VideoScope columnist Tim Ferrante and “Manos” vocalist Nicki Mathis, and will be presented on three different vinyl formats: red & black “Master Edition” swirl, only available through the Ship to Shore PhonoCo. webstore here (600 pressed, retailing at $23); brown “Torgo Edition” available in the U.S. from Light In The Attic and in the E.U. from One Way Static (600 pressed, retailing at $23); and a standard black vinyl edition available from all good record shops (800 pressed, retailing at $21). The album will be released mid-September and is available to pre-order right now!

Manos: The Hands Of Fate captured the hearts & minds of B-movie aficionados everywhere since its legendary treatment by Mystery Science Theater 3000 got it the attention it sorely missed on its initial cinema release in 1966. The wonderful lo-fi jazz score by Russ Huddleston and Robert Smith Jr. is an integral part of the movie’s charm and Ship to Shore PhonoCo. are proud to announce this release as part of their roster. “Thou hast taught us, O Manos, and we hath listened! Give ear to our words, O Manos, and hear us! Hear us! Hear us!”

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