Dulce (album) explained

Dulce
Type:soundtrack
Artist:Sun City Girls
Cover:Sun City Girls - Dulce.jpg
Recorded:Palatine and Gravelvoice Studios, Seattle, WA
Genre:Experimental rock
Length:42:29
Label:Abduction
Prev Title:Box of Chameleons
Prev Year:1997
Next Title:Singles Volume 1
Next Year:2008

Dulce is a soundtrack album composed by American experimental rock band Sun City Girls, released in 1998 by Abduction Records.[1]

Background

According to the album's liner notes written by Alan Bishop, the band received a request in 1995 from a Japanese man, Hachiro Maki, who claimed to be a member of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, to produce a soundtrack for his film project about "a secret underground alien base in New Mexico most commonly referred to as Dulce". Next year, during their tour in Japan, the band met the director in Osaka in a temple courtyard. After reviewing rough cuts of the movie, they were given one million yen for their soundtrack services.[2]

Style

As Dean McFarlane of Allmusic writes, the album is stylistically varied "from the spaced-out improvisation and ethnic drone to the cutting electric rock of the Torch of the Mystics era". Behind the "freakish sound" of Dulce, he observes such influences as Zabriskie Point and Ennio Morricone's work from the 1970s.[3]

Personnel

Adapted from the Dulce liner notes.[4]

Sun City Girls
Additional musicians
Production and additional personnel

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1998AbductionLPABDT010
2007CD

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ira . Robbins . David . Sprague . Sun City Girls . . 2007 . July 13, 2015.
  2. Web site: Official Sun City Girls Discography: Dulce. Sun City Girls. 2020-11-08.
  3. Web site: Dean . McFarlane . [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000752526|pure_url=yes}} Sun City Girls: ''Dulce'' > Review ]. Allmusic . November 8, 2020.
  4. Dulce . . 1998 . sleeve . Abduction Records . Seattle, Washington.