Simon Boswell grew up attached to a piano keyboard. At the age of 8, inspired by a BBC Radio program about Mozart, he composed a theme & variations in the styles of Chopin, Bach, Mozart, & Rachmaninov. He astounded an unexpecting audience at a school recital.
Then when he was 12, he learned the guitar after being mesmerized by a television broadcast of Jimi Hendrix. Combining the two techniques...classical piano & rock guitar, Boswell spent several years in bands. He founded the power pop group Advertising in 1977 then took over guitar in Live Wire (when Chris Cutler left the band after their debut Pick It Up) where he recorded both 1980s No Fright & 1981s Changes Made before becoming a record producer.
In 1982, his production of Italian superstar, Renato Zero, became one of the biggest selling Italian albums of all time. This brought him to the attention of horror director Dario Argento who changed Simon’s career forever. Argento asked Boswell to combine with the nucleus of Goblin, on the soundtrack to the film Phenomena.
Since then, Boswell has scored films that span a myriad of genres & styles, all known for the creative combination of electronic elements with orchestral instruments. His work for horror / fantasy cinema is renown, especially the Italian giallo films, & flicks like Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions, the chillingly atonal Incubus, & the hybrid cyberpunk stylings of Hackers & Hardware.
Here's one of the great soundtracks of the 90s, the accompaniment to the Richard Stanley masterpiece of sci-fi/apocalyptic cinema, Hardware, an excellent example of low-budget filmmaking, "an art-house, sci-fi gorefest". For the score, Boswell combined acoustic slide guitar with resonant, doomy synths to create a hugely popular, apocalyptic score.
This version ontains a final hidden track with sound effects & dialogue by Dylan McDermott.
No Flesh Shall Be Spared
Good Morning Amerika featuring Iggy Pop - Simon Boswell
The Order of Death - Public Image Limited
Reno's Reindeer Steaks
Alligator Heart
Everything is Under Control
Mark 13
Jill Burning
Silent Night
A Message from Our Sponsors - Simon Boswell
A Piece of Pipe - Kaduta Mass featuring Lemmy Kilmister
Stigmata - Ministry
It's Horrible.. I Love It.. What Is It?
Cockroach Tea
Crucifixion
Hardware - Simon Boswell
Stabat Mater - The London Symphony Orchestra
bonus track -
I Dreamt it Was Raining
The fix is in,
NØ
Hardware OST
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