More Music from the Further
Released by Void Recordings, 2018.
27 Tracks with a Total Running Time of 50:41 min.
Music By Joseph Bishara

What we have here are unreleased and/or developmental pieces from the first three Insidious pictures, that are on “display” here for audiences to hear. It is interesting to hear parts of scores, as opposed to hearing it as a whole. But it still works.

I’ve always found that there are two different types of scores. Sometimes they are intermixed or sometimes they keep themselves separate. One of them is more of an orchestrated score, filled with melodies and themes, that grab hold with an emotional hook to the listener. Then there are those that are more…sounds. Some might call them noise but I think that takes away any decision on how it should sound or that it isn’t planned. It could be a low rumbling or buzzing sound. It could just the sound of a bow being slowly rubbed across the strings on a cello. No melody, not theme, just a sound to hook into an emotion as well, but using a different approach. Some might have a preference, but it doesn’t mean that either way is more effective than the other.

What Bishara does here is definitely in the second group. In spades. It does run the gambit as far as the different reactions it will give the listener. There are loud, pounding parts, like someone banging on some metal tube, with other tracks having a screeching sound come bursting through the speakers. Those are sure to get your attention. But then there are other tracks that just build in the background, in the recess of your mind, slowly working their way in. And that is why this release is so much fun to listen to. This would be perfect to have playing during a Halloween party, or even outside your house on Halloween night. It definitely will make people take notice.