Italy’s Most Haunting Composer

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Warning: contains flashing lights. Buonasera everyone and welcome back! This one is near and dear to my heart, if you enjoy it, please check out Cilio's music, it's worth it. What makes a piece of music haunting? Today we'll be starting from H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The music of Erich Zann", which always made me wonder what that kind of mysterious and otherworldly music might sound like. Years after reading the tale, I stumbled across Luciano Cilio's album "Dialoghi del presente" on Rateyourmusic, and I immediately fell in love. I found especially the opening track (Primo quadro "della conoscenza") to have that creepy but alluring quality to it and I suddenly remembered the story. After that I started reading up on the composer himself and found out about the tragic story of his life: the young italian musician made only one LP, and after being pretty much shunned by Naples' music industry, he took his life in 1983, when he was only 33 years old. This video is kind of a tribute to his craft, trying to delve a bit deeper into the track in an effort to convince you to give it a listen. Thank you for watching! Music by me (except the part where I play Cilio's track, obv) You can find it on Bandcamp! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction / Lovecraft 03:00 The Music Of Erich Zann 07:12 Luciano Cilio 13:32 What makes a piece of music haunting? 15:42 Dialoghi del presente 20:30 Conclusions and outro Sources: Girolamo De Simone, "L'urlo. I suoni senza voce di Luciano Cilio" Girolamo De Simone, "Luciano Cilio mi disse" H.P. Lovecraft, "The Music Of Erich Zann" Most background videos taken from archive.org and screen recordings of games, especially Kitty Horrorshow's Haunted Cities collections.