New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ G-Man Marketing) - The song "Goodbye Horses" is most famous for being in the film "The Silence of the Lambs," but John Scott G (www.johnscottg.com) hopes to change that with a remix on the new album from goth-ambient band Mortal Loom. Working with F. Troy, G created a remix that contains subliminal sonic pulsations.
"The lyrics are poetic and the melody is hypnotic," G states, "so it seemed appropriate to put as much subliminal aural information as possible into the new mix. The track, simply called 'Goodbye Horses Remix,' is designed to take listeners into an altered state," G says, "perhaps euphoria, or perhaps an epileptic fit."
Sounds or images are considered subliminal if they are beneath the threshold of sensory perception or beyond the range of conscious awareness. "The history of subliminal phenomena is very interesting," G notes. "If you look at 'The Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research' from 1895, you find it contains some wonderful documents. For example, there's a piece called 'On the Apparent Sources of Subliminal Messages' written by a Miss X. I love that!"
In the same issue are other eyebrow-raising articles, including "Some Experiments on the Supernormal Acquisition of Knowledge," by Mrs. A. W. Verrall; "Telepathic Dreams Experimentally Induced," by Dr. G. B. Ermacora; "Subliminal Self or Unconscious Cerebration," by Arthur H. Pierce of Harvard University; and "The Subliminal Self" by Frederic W. H. Myers of Trinity College, Cambridge.
"There are elements in all those documents that inspired this new and relentless version of the tune," G adds. The original song was written by William Garvey in 1988 and a recording of it by Q Lazzarus appeared on the soundtrack to two Jonathan Demme films, "Married to the Mob" in 1988, and "Silence of the Lambs" in 1991. Now, the highly acclaimed electronic group Mortal Loom has two new versions of it on their latest release, "This Vastness" (on iTunes from Delvian Records).
In one aspect of Eastern philosophy, horses stand for things that keep you rooted to the physical world. When you can exist apart from material things and rise above the five senses, you are above the horses, represented in the song by the chorus, "Goodbye Horses, I'm flying over you."
About John Scott G
Songwriter and music publisher John 'Scott' G has released 7 albums as The G-Man, one as DJ Insane & The G-Man, and one as Jonny Harmonic. He produced the James Sotelo album "Blast of Fast" and the country album by Scott Joss and Doug Colosio, "A Couple of Strangers." A voting member in the Grammys, a member of the board for the National Assn. of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP), and a board member for the California Copyright Conference, he writes a column for the Music Industry Newswire. A self-described "electronica geek," G is also managing partner of Golosio Music Publishing.
