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NP: Heavy Metal 2000 - Frederic Talgorn

Lush, Symphonic masterpiece!

A friend said I should check it out. Glad I did!

Great score!

Erik, couldn't agree with you more. SPHERE is one of my G favorites as well, so dark, ominous and vast-sounding! I just love it!

HANS ZIMMER - the POTC suites (8 new pieces in total)

F*CKING AWESOME!

NP: Apollo 13 - James Horner

Probably my favourite Horner score, it has everything I love about his music.

That's an interesting score, though I came out of it wondering if that was Steiner's best shot, how good would Waxman, Herrmann or North's take on the material be?
I think the reason Steiner is not so well regarded these days is his complete lack of proportion to the drama. Korngold comes off well today because the films he scored were fanciful swashbucklers - they're fantasies. But Steiner did everything with an iron fist and an orchestral flourish, even scores that probably called for some subtlety like THE INFORMER and SIERRA MADRE.

NP: Marco Polo (Morricone)

Nice relief after listening to The Golden Compass so much.

I actually haven't heard 72 METRA. I will one of these days - I'd better purchase it before it goes out of print - but I need to be in a Morricone mood to have a good time with his modern music. I was in one last year, when I had to do all those reviews for Ripley's Game, Fateless, Karol, Cefalonia, etc. Wouldn't mind hearing AIDA DEGLI ALBERI though - his animation score from a few years back.

What do you want to talk about?

-Erik-

[big]Hans Zimmer - Pirates of the Caribbean CD 4[/big]

The suites... GREAT work, really great work from Hans, even if the original Zimmer suite is even more (yes that's possible ) derivative than the final score (ripping Drop Zone note for note, bad Hans, bad Hans... Marry Me is a great version of the Love Theme and the "Parachute" theme is great too. Beckett material is very good, Davy Jones - I must admit to preferring the second score suite from its respective album. Beckett material is good in both track - Sao Feng's material is just breathtaking - 6 minutes of dramatic Asian swashbuckling in distinct Zimmer style. What can be said about it

Generally

We have another Jordi? Im unique!!!!!!

"LORD OF SINGAPORE" PURE ZIMMER!!!! What an amazing tour de force between orient and western orchestra! i love this final minute ala Black Rain.

(Beckett stuff don't make me goes crazy, is the best action stuff by Zimmer, but I don't like that theme)

NP: Star Trek VI - Cliff Eidelman

One of the best Star Trek soundtracks, i think.
The best moments of the score is played at the start and the end of the album. Only the middle section, becomes a bit dull sometimes.
The "Overture" is a kick @ss track. I can play that cue, over and over again, and never get tired of it. So is "The Battle For Peace".
And "Sign Off" is such a nice way, to say goodbye of the original Star Trek crew.


I've never heard the last 3 Star Trek scores by Goldsmith. Or seen the movies for that matter.
So what score would you recommend me next?
First Contact, Insurrection or Nemesis? Any suggestions?

Go with First Contact. The last time Goldsmith would ever come to the greatness of The Motion Picture and The Final Frontier. Insurrection and Nemesis are paint by numbers, nothing special efforts!

-Erik-

NP: Birth (Desplat)

I think in it's own way, this score as unusual a way to tell a story musically as possible in a film. The music itself is pretty novel on its own... but in the film, as any poor soul whose seen it can attest, it does some very odd things. The electric pulse and solo timpani stuff in particular. The music entertains a distance from the image that feels almost random at times. And for that, for trying something very different, I hope it endures. We hear of so many film-makers saying they employed Desplat because of BIRTH (directors Richard Loncraine of FIREWALL, Stephen Fears of THE QUEEN, Gaghan of SYRIANA and John Curran of THE PAINTED VEIL), so fortunately the right people noticed. Hopefully a time will come when he writes something else that makes me go 'wow! I haven't heard that before!' like this score's fantastic 'Prologue'.

Alright... a new challenge. Within one week Jordi with be singing this scores praises.

Jordi... time for you to re-listen to...

"Red Alert" - AWESOME rendition of Goldsmith's Star Trek main theme with segues into the menacing Borg theme. From there this exciting action cue reprises Goldsmith's Klingon Theme which is now Worf's heroic motif. The rest of the cue is dynamite as Goldsmith' builds to Picard's order for the entire fleet to attack.

"Welcome Aboard" is absolutely gorgeous as Picard shows Lily Earth from space for the very first time.

"Retreat" contains a lot of exciting material... Warf's theme again, the GREAT Borg theme.

"Evacuate" The beginning of this track is absolutely superb and the rythmic music continues until Pickard gives the self-destruct order and again we get another beautiful rendition of the First Contact theme.

"The Dish" Jordi, you talked about suspence music... this is top notch suspence music for a great sequence in the film.

"Flight of the Phoenix" If you have the recording sessions of this score then you have already heard this spectacular track. Even though it was composed by Joel Goldsmith it still is one of the top three cues from the film and one of the great Star Trek cues of all time. I love the swirling woodwinds during the actual launch of the Phoenix. What an outstanding track that should have made it to the commercial release.

"First Contact" - "End Credits" - The other two highlight cues. I don't need to go over these fine tracks with you... just listen to them.

So, go back and listen to this most excellent score. Goldsmith's late GREAT Star Trek score.

-Erik-

PS - While you're at it... re-listen to Star Trek V.

NP: Romeo and Juliet~ Nino Rota
Since today was his birthday, I thought it would be appropriate to honour him by playing what is for me his best work.I just adore the Love Theme.It reminds me why I love music and what means to be in love...

NP POTC Live Performance at Disneyland (Hans Zimmer and Co.)

Nice performance (with the obvious pre-records included) of a suite from POTC3.
Nice to see Heitor Pereira, Bruce Fowler, Martin Tillman and Steve Erdody having such a good time, laughing all the time. Specially funny is one of the drummers, the one wearing glasses (does anybody know if he is a RC guy?).

Oh, and what a hottie the lady who plays the violin is. Wouldn´t mind watching more of her....playing the violin I mean.