SONIC ARTIFACTS FROM PARALLEL REALITIES

The Ephemeral Music Restoration Series is an attempt to document music from previous eras that never saw official release. Broken Labyrinth scrupulously recreates sounds from available sources to preserve unheralded but important songs.

Broken Labyrinth recreates two songs that were originally composed and performed for The Macabre Matinee, a "horror showcase" program hosted by horror personality Count Jackula. Airing on Saturday afternoons in the Washington DC-metro area, TMM offered "a uniquely offbeat journey through the strange, the eerie, and the inexplicable," typically featuring classic and obscure horror movies. Occasionally the program would be unable to secure the rights to air a film, and the Count would be forced to dramatically read from a "classic of the macabre," i.e., whatever book could find at the local thrift store. This release highlights songs featured in two installments of Unfilmed Scenes, a theme composed for Martin K. Slade's sleazy and controversial The Eradicator, and a theme composed for Nancy Garden's horror-fantasy Prisoner of Vampires.

Broken Labyrinth recreates two songs from the 1978 public access documentary 'Inside The Vremya Institute,' which were originally composed and performed by uncredited musicians from the now-defunct WNoVA Multimedia production company.

The Vremya Institute was a psychogical research facility founded in the 1960s in Central Pennsylvania by visionary psychologist and neuroscientist Dr. Natalia Vremya. One of its early mottos, "Transcend to something other than yourself," points towards the institution's explorations into understanding and developing the potential of the human mind. The Institute was quite controversial during its existence, especially for conducting research into "the psychotronosphere" in order to harness "psy-energy," and questionable ethics and repeated charges of patient abuse dogged the organization throughout its existence. The 1978 documentary in which this music was originally utilized help to shed light on The Vremya Institute, and the federal government was in the process of trying to halt its operations when it mysteriously burned to the ground in 1979, with several of its research scientists and Dr. Vremya herself vanishing in the aftermath. The documentary is occasionally available on the internet, but it is typically removed within a few hours of publication due to copyright complaints; who exactly is making these complaints remains unknown.