Flash!! Gary just confirmed to perform the US premiere of his Spanish "Dracula" project during the closing weekend of the 48th New York Film Festival on October 9th at 9:30pm at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center.

Flash!! Gary just confirmed to perform the UK premiere of his Spanish-language "Dracula" project at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on Sunday Nov. 21st, as part of the London Jazz Festival in association with BBC 3.

Check out 2 new YouTube clips of Spanish "Dracula" below with Gary Lucas' live soundtrack, recorded at the Havana Film Festival 12/11/09.

Gary just performed the European premiere of his Spanish "Dracula" project on the evening of Sunday May 30th 2010 as a special event outside the old crumbing Castle Banffy in Bontida Romania at the 9th Transylvania International Film Festival before 800 souls. 

Read a rave review from Adavarul.ro (English translation here)...from Monitorul de Cluj (English translation here)...from The Vampire's Crib, with a live clip here (English translation here)...from CineFan.ro (English translation here)...from Kronika.ro (English translation here)...check out an excerpt from Gary's press conference here...see a clip from Gary's performance in the TIFF Daily wrap-up at 3:40 here...see photos here...and check out live clips from the audience here, here, here, and here.
"ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE EVENTS IN THIS YEAR'S EDITION OF THE TRANSYLVANIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL...GARY LUCAS WAS FORMIDABLE—THE AUDIENCE WAS SPEECHLESS AS FOR ALMOST 2 HOURS LUCAS' FINGERS NEVER DISCONNECTED FROM HIS GUITAR...AN EVENT THAT NO ONE WILL EVER FORGET. "
—ADEVARUL (Romania), 6/2010

"ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING EVENTS OF THE 9TH EDITION OF THE TRANSYLVANIA FILM FESTIVAL."
—MONITOROL DE CLUJ (Romania), 6/2010

"GARY LUCAS' PSYCHEDELIC GUITAR PLAYING BEFORE OVER 800 SPECTATORS IN FRONT OF BANFFY CASTLE MADE THE AUDIENCE FEEL THE POWER—AND THE AUDIENCE GAVE HIM A HUGE REWARD OF APPLAUSE AT THE END FOR PROVIDING THIS UNIQUE EXPERIENCE."
—KRONIKA (Romania), 6/2010

"THE US GUITARIST GARY LUCAS DEFIED THE GODS AND BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE ONE OF THE DARKEST AND MOST TERRIFYING CREATURES IN THE LITERATURE OF HORROR...DRACULA DID NOT NEED TO RISE FROM HIS COFFIN IN ORDER TO RETURN FROM THE REALM OF THE DEAD; HE DID IT THROUGH THE GUITAR OF THIS LEGENDARY MUSICIAN, WHO, LIKE THE MOST CELEBRATED VAMPIRE FROM TRANSYLVANIA, HAS BEEN 'CONDEMNED' TO IMMORTALITY. "
—GRANMA (Cuba), 12/2009
Unknown to most film-goers—even die-hard horror and fantasy cinema buffs—a second, alternate, and many would hold, superior version of "Dracula"(1931, d. Enrique Tovar Alvalos and George Melford) was being filmed at night on the same sets and sound stages as the famous Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi "Dracula", with virtually the same script—but with a Spanish-speaking cast, in a Spanish-language production aimed at the burgeoning Latin market.

The resulting film contains markedly more fluid camera-work and editing and more atmospheric use of lighting than the original "Dracula"—and boasts over-the-top, sexier—and dare we say, more full-blooded—performances from a cast including the great Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Spanish born actor Carlos Villarias.

In the fall of 2009, GARY LUCAS, following the success of his latest live solo guitar score for Tod Browning's silent thriller "The Unholy Three", turned his creative energies towards composing a new solo guitar score for the infamous Spanish-language "Dracula". The film, like the original "Dracula", contains virtually no music beyond the opening and closing titles—Gary's music flows throughout, underscoring the spoken Spanish dialogue sequences as well as the long expressive shots that contain only sound effects in the film.

On December 11th, Gary Lucas performed the world premiere of his new solo guitar score accompanying the Spanish-language "Dracula" at the 31st Havana Film Festival by invitation of the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamerica, at 8pm in the La Rampa Cinema in Havana Cuba.

Read a rave review of Gary Lucas' Spanish "Dracula" world premiere at the Havana Film Festival from Cuba's main newspaper Granma, English translation here.

Read an interview with Gary Lucas about the project from the Havana Film Festival's daily newspaper Diario Del Festival.

Read an article devoted to the project from the official program of the Festival International Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamerica.

"La sangre es la vida, Signor Renfield..."


Carlos Villarias and Lupita Tovar


Lupita Tovar | Lupita Tovar and Carlos Villarias


The Brides of Dracula, from the Spanish language "Dracula" (1931. d. Enrique Tovar Avalos and George Melford)
 



Two clips of Spanish "Dracula" with Gary Lucas' live soundtrack, recorded at the Havana Film Festival 12/11/09 | Watch these clips in his res on Vimeo here