About

Chris Bozzone is a soundtrack composer, songwriter and filmmaker. In the fall of 2017, he began working with Jonathan Dennison, the founder of Cadabra Records on his first soundtrack for the label, Thomas Ligotti's "The Bungalow House,'' a vinyl-and-cassette release that came out in 2018. His soundtrack work for Cadabra Records covers a wide array of weird, fantastical and macabre fiction. Bozzone also works with film and concert hall composer Peter Scartabello and his Yuggoth Records label. In October of 2022, Yuggoth Records released Bozzone’s first album for the label, “Phantom Flowers,” as a vinyl record and digitally. Bozzone and Scartabello released their debut collaborative album, “Glimpsing Into Oblivion” under the project name Seer in April of 2023. Singular for his ability to fuse together different musical styles, Bozzone's scores and songs encompass evocative electronic music, arresting folk melodies, classical piano compositions, and boundary-pushing experimental soundscapes.

Select highlights from Bozzone's scores for Cadabra Records include H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" 6XLP boxed set, Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan" 3XLP set, Thomas Ligotti's "The Small People" 2XLP set, Thomas De Quincey's "Suspiria De Profundis: Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow," and Edogawa Rampo's "The Caterpillar." All of Bozzone’s soundtracks have been produced by Barry Knob who also contributes additional musical arrangements to many of the scores. To date, Bozzone has set his scores to the work of extraordinary voice actors like Jon Padgett, Andrew Leman, Laurence R. Harvey, Anthony D.P. Mann, S.T. Joshi, Robert Lloyd Parry, and Matthew M. Bartlett.

Influences on Bozzone's music include European horror films, surrealistic Polish, Czech and Eastern European art cinema, weird fiction and poetry, 20th-century avant-garde classical and electro-acoustic music, American minimalist composers, spiritual jazz, black metal, psychedelic folk music along with an assortment of post-industrial British projects, and Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound list.

Bozzone also co-directed and scored an award-winning short film, "Mirrors," which was selected by filmmaker David Lynch to screen in conjunction with an exhibit of his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2015.

For about a decade, Bozzone was a disc jockey for WPRB in Princeton, New Jersey.

"Chris Bozzone has an artistic vision, which brings together cosmic exploration and the literary gothic, as in the beautiful corrupted by decay... his albums move through contemplation, nature exploration, and hallucinogenic tapestries to portentous terror. At the edge of his music is a fear and sadness that our reality is fragile and that we cannot understand what lies beyond ." 

Mark Coyle 

“As H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness is itself a masterwork of weird fiction, so is composer Chris Bozzone's score for this adaptation a masterwork of auditory terror.”

Nick Spacek

"... Bozzone shadows his words with malign electronics and wheezing-drones, as if slowly prising open the portal to an abyss."

Louis Pattison

"A truly gifted songwriter whose talent for sculpting gorgeous melodies is only equaled by the imaginative set of arrangements he uses to perfect them."

Francois Hubert

“With his fourth release, Horizons of Death, Chris brings light from the edges with a whole new approach to his instrumentation and songwriting.  The vibe is still morose and chilling, but the flourishes of strings and brass convey that Chris has finally hit upon something truly exceptional.”

Tony Rettman

"You know, if a music mag like, say, I don't know, Pitchfork really cared about music as much as they do style and trend, they would of already heard of and written about Chris Bozzone. He deserves that kind of visibility..."

Larry "Fuzz-O" Dolman

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