BASIL POLEDOURIS

I'm going to pass up on this, since I've got the Varèse expanded CD and almost never listen to it - somehow I've never really connected to it. I'm much more a fan of Hunt for Red October and Quigley.

Besides the main theme, neither did I.

Awesomely orchestral with some synth flavourings!

I love everything about Robocop, synths and all so whether I will go for this new release or not depends on the question if the extra cues are worth it, because I seem to have more than enough with the old Varese album. The score is one I can never tire of, Poledouris at his best.

I'm glad that this release will include the End Credits! When I bought the Varese album years ago I was dissappointed that it didn't include the end credits because it show cases the Robocop theme at it's best. That also the reason why I didn't buy the Varese expanded release years later. It didn't add any extras worth having. And as mentionned on the Intrada forum the sound quality will be top notch so I'm buying this release first thing tomorrow when I wake up.

Gilles, will you buy this one too?

I've never really understood the appeal of Flesh + Blood to be honest, Conan is far superior in the same genre of sound.

It's been a long time since I heard the score, but I ADORED this film when I was a teen (I recorded it from nighttime television and watched it numerous times since) - part of it must be attributed to the nudity (Jennifer Jason Leigh in her prime!) and violence, of course, but there was also something engrossing about the atmosphere.

Conan is outstanding, I played the main titles today to the class at the college and i was newly re-blow away but it, as the kids were listening to that, and me reading their reactions in their faces. As good as film music can get.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN


<---me non-stop crying with happiness

Of "the century"? Already?

Utterly mindblowing. I bought just one cue from iTunes, but the samples blow the original quality away in terms of performance, recording and lush orchestrations.

Will be buying the Tadlow re-recording.

I can't believe that this hasn't been mentioned!

Intrada announces:

FLESH + BLOOD
Composed and Conducted by BASIL POLEDOURIS
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 153

The 1985 film Flesh + Blood began Paul Verhoeven’s working relationship with composer Basil Poledouris, who would later collaborate on Robocop and Starship Troopers. Verhoeven had been impressed by Poledouris’s muscular, yet highly romantic, music for John Milius’s Conan the Barbarian, sensing a corollary between Conan’s quasi-medieval comic book style and the blend of medieval action, romance and mysticism in Flesh + Blood. Verhoeven asked for a score that was medieval in character but large-scale and orchestral to reinforce the film’s spirit of adventure—and he needed Poledouris to suggest Catholic mysticism. Poledouris saw the main characters as “land pirates” and brought a swashbuckling feeling to his music from the film’s opening credits, introducing a bold and adventurous theme, alternating from the piratical vibe Poledouris sought to the heavy, no-nonsense rhythms of war. To underscore the film’s love triangle, Poledouris wrote two extremely rich romantic melodies. The result is a score that is simply a treasure trove of orchestral color, period splendor and—ultimately—power.

While this is the third CD release of the score to Flesh + Blood, it is the first release to revisit the 24-track masters stored at MGM and create a brand new, crisp and clear mix. Previous releases were created from 1/4" masters featuring a mix with which the composer was never entirely satisfied and supplemented with additional music from suboptimal sources. Additionally, this is the first release to present the entire score in film order, revealing the rich and intricate masterpiece Poledouris provided.

Set at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century in Western Europe, Flesh + Blood chronicles the story a band of mercenaries led by Martin (Rutger Hauer) and his compatriot-in-arms Hawkwood (Jack Thompson), who are in the employ of a nobleman named Arnolfini (Fernando
Hilbeck). After employing them to rout the citizens of a besieged city, Arnolfini betrays the hired soldiers and abandons them without pay. Disbanded to the countryside, Martin and his band of men and women find vengeance by kidnapping the princess Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who is betrothed to Arnolfini’s son Steven (Tom Burlinson).

This release is limited to 2000 units.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 153
Retail Price: $19.99
AVAILABLE NOW
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.6864/.f

I'm not sure why it wasn't highlighted earlier by someone. Maybe our usual publicists here were all busy?