Lady Swordfighter: Escape from Hachijo-jima
Sean Wolcott returns with “Lady Swordfighter: Escape from Hachijō-jima”—his ninth library album and a prequel to the global underground hit. This 19-track odyssey descends into a brutal prison island and ascends in a blaze of vengeance.
Delivering an earth-shattering dose of psychedelic jazz-funk, jidaigeki, and haunted exploitation score, it fuses traditional Japanese instrument masters—shakuhachi, koto, shinobue, taiko, and Noh—with neck-snapping grooves, fuzzed-out psych, ritual drums, soaring horns, and soul-drenched ballads.
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Light Music for Heavy Industry
"Light Music for Heavy Industry," Wolcott’s 8th library album, is a kaleidoscopic journey into the psychedelic fringes of easy listening. Inspired by library music for industrial films, space-age pop, experimental jazz, exotica, and early synth pioneers, it’s Wolcott’s most sweeping and dreamlike work yet. Combining symphonic jazz-funk, hazy grooves, and avant-garde textures, the album crafts a playful, surreal, and atmospheric soundscape. Echoes of Pete Jolly’s Seasons, Alessandro Alessandroni, Charles Stepney, Esquivel, and Galt MacDermot ripple through this ode to an alternate future bathed in misplaced optimism.
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Voce d’Ombra
“Voce d’Ombra”, the 7th library album from Sean Wolcott, invites listeners on a sonic journey of terror. Blending gothic horror with phantasmagoric prog, demonic jazz, and sinister soundscapes, the album creates a tapestry of eerie, giallo-esque beauty and nightmarish atmospheres. Each track draws you deeper into an iridescent world, where haunting melodies and immersive textures form a nightmare like no other.
Wolcott explores uncharted sonic realms, pushing the boundaries of sound and atmosphere. At times, the album echoes the intensity of acts like Goblin, Can, Mike Oldfield, and Bruno Nicolai, while still crafting its own distinctive, atmospheric landscape.
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Flying Free
“Flying Free,” the latest album from Sean Wolcott, propels listeners on a Jazz Fusion voyage through the skies, continuing the astral journey started with “Liquid Landscapes.” This album captures the thrilling ascent of free flight with floating electric piano, soaring synthesizers, dreamy vocals, and an ever-pulsating rhythm section, taking listeners through ominous storm clouds, serene skyscapes, and ultimately reaching the ethereal upper atmosphere.
The ever-prolific Wolcott explores bold new directions here, building on the foundation of past albums and introducing a spectrum of fresh musical nuances. At times, the album evokes the peak 1970s jazz experimentation of acts like Return to Forever, Weather Report, Soul Media, Herbie Hancock, and Lonnie Liston Smith, all while carving a path of its own.
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Lady Swordfighter
“Lady Swordfighter” the latest library album from composer & producer Sean Wolcott takes you on a psychedelic revenge odyssey over five chapters and 17 songs.
A love letter to Japanese soundtracks and cinema, “Lady Swordfighter” is part sonic kabuki play, part cult exploitation soundtrack, featuring a cast of traditional Japanese instrument maestros, including the shakuhachi, koto, shamisen, taiko drums, and more. Journey through a soundscape of soulful ballads, haunting chants, blood-splattered guitars, head-chopping beats, and ominous horns.
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Liquid Landscapes
“Liquid Landscapes” the latest library album from composer & producer Sean Wolcott takes you on a sonic journey from the top of the ocean to its deepest depths and back again. Immerse yourself in eleven tracks that explore the profound depths of underwater-themed library music, drenched jazz funk, oceanic fusion, and subaqueous cosmic music.
All songs were written, produced, arranged, orchestrated, and recorded by Sean Wolcott at Soundview Analog Recorders.
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Violent Hand of the Sleeping City
"Violent Hand of the Sleeping City," the latest library album from composer, producer, and engineer Sean Wolcott, delivers an intensely captivating and fresh take on the iconic 1970s crime film score.
Mutated jazz, driving beats, frenetic funk, and atmospheric undertones create a sonic journey where occult menace lingers at the edges of its 16 dynamic tracks. Blending influences from blaxploitation soundtracks, Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, and Poliziotteschi scores, Wolcott pushes the boundaries of crime film music, culminating in one of the most epic ballads ever composed for the imaginary screen.
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Love is a Funny Game
Fresh on the heels of il Mietitore cavalca verso ovest, Love is a Funny Game is a new library record from composer, producer, and engineer Sean Wolcott. Imagined as the soundtrack to an early ’70s Italian-French melodrama, it follows a romance from its blossoming to its untimely end.
Flutes, vocal quintets, brass, drums, harpsichords, guitars, and organs flow through lush arrangements and deep grooves of erotic Bossa Nova, hard-edged Easy Listening, and cinematic Soul. Across 14 tracks, Wolcott conjures a dreamlike melancholy—recalling Bacharach, Axelrod, Spector, Stepney, Alessandroni, Libek, Mendes, and more, while remaining uniquely his own.
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il Mietitore cavalca verso ovest
From composers and producers Sean Wolcott and Craig Curran comes il Mietitore cavalca verso ovest (The Reaper Rides West), a new library record imagined as the soundtrack to a lost Spaghetti Western. Like the genre itself, it twists familiar tropes into new shapes, with iconic themes captured on vintage analog gear at Soundview Analog Recorders.
Shouts, bullwhips, timpani, twangy guitars, fuzz, horns, and choir bring the drama to life—making this a vivid and worthy addition to the western soundtrack tradition, whether the film exists or only plays in the listener’s mind.
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