Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2025 December 22 • Monday

Alessandro Blonkstein's music for Vietnam vet/cannibal movie Apocalypse Domani (Cannibal Apocalypse) is the 888th Soundtrack of the Week.

A lot of this is groovy, funky, jazzy stuff alternating with more lyrical, string-driven, melodic ideas.

The opening track, "Jane", for instance, starts out sounding like one of Ennio Morricone's more beautiful tracks, like the "Poverty" theme from Once Upon a Time in America.

And then "Apocalypse" starts with martial snare drum and pensive strings before shifting into a cool funk groove, like if Goblins did lounge music.

"Impossible Love" takes that lounge idea and brings it into smooth jazz territory with sax solos and a languid melody while "Station Service" starts off in a restrained, almost pastoral mode before slipping back into an "Apocalypse"-ish groove. This bit is like some of Joe Harnell's best Bionic Woman cues.

Relentless piano octaves and divebombing synth parts start "Apocalypse abnd Love" in a compelling way and then relaxes into "love" territory.

More '70s-era TV music is recalled by the string-driven and swaying "Boys and Girls" and then a keyboard, maybe clavinet, combines with percussion for "Underground Fugue", another great piece.

"Market Suspense" recalls Morricone's pocket watch music from For a Few Dollars More, and then "Dreadful Night" gives the electric bass guitar a feature while synth clouds billow around it. This also has a slight Goblin-feel to it.

A triplet feel combined with the piano octaves creates the skeleton of "Target Firing" and then there are a bass pulse and dramatic string writing for "At the Hospital".

This CD features both film versions and album recordings of the smae cues, which are all pretty much great.