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  1. Tintin wrote
    franz_conrad wrote
    NP: Journey of Natty Gann (Horner)

    There are a couple of tracks where I have to wonder if Jimmy might have heard a bit of Goldsmith's LEGEND. (Or maybe they both were drawing from a common source?) Those folky strings are a very similar sound.


    Did I hear a " Great minds think alike" here? smile A most enjoyable CD. This year has been great in old scores being released. Don't you think?


    I do. Admittedly I haven't sampled much of the feast so far. My listening seems to have been concentrated on a small handful of albums this year (Cheri, Alexandra, BSG 4, etc).
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorBhelPuri
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009 edited
    Etienne Perruchon - Dogora Ouvron Les Yeux

    I had this cd unopened for the last 4 years. Finally gave it a spin. What a fun listen! It's full orchestral with lots of children's choir singing in a fake language. Love it!

    Jon Broxton's review is bang on-

    Perruchon cites the celebrated Russian classic composers Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Shostakovich as his musical inspirations for Dogora, but in film music terms the scores it reminds me of the most are actually Basil Poledouris’s pair The Hunt for Red October and Conan the Barbarian. By combining the might of the vocal work of the former with the orchestral power of the latter, Perruchon makes each cue a distinct musical entity in its own right, with just one uniting element - the mixed voices of the Sofia Symphony Orchestra Chorus. In each cue, the choir contributes their mesmerising tones in a variety of guises, singing in a made-up language (a kind of mock-Russian), but nevertheless giving the album a palpable humanity – the tongue may be different, but the emotions felt through the performances are universal.
  3. Battlestar Galactica TV series (Richard Gibbs)

    I like the soundtrack to the TV series that started it all, there are some wonderfully haunting cues here and the main theme heard in track 1 is great, whit that woman's voice backing it up. There is an amazing rendition of it during 'The Storm and the Dead'. Also the whole sound Gibbs wrote for Six is one of the more inspired choices. I love that part of the score. A rather interesting listen overall, only sad that none of the material here is continued in McCreary's music.
    "considering I've seen an enormous debate here about The Amazing Spider-Man and the ones who love it, and the ones who hate it, I feel myself obliged to say: TASTE DIFFERS, DEAL WITH IT" - Thomas G.
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      CommentAuthorAtham
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    I know what you mean by "that theme". It's a great tune indeed! Very nice moments throughout the Gibbs score. But I love where McCreary went with the whole thing though. Love it all! cool
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      CommentAuthorAtham
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    franz_conrad wrote
    Atham wrote
    NP: Battlestar Galactica: Season 4 - McCreary

    My CD player is running hot with this one!
    Both discs contain the results of an incredible musical evolution that peaks in perfection.
    Not only can you hear all the character themes in fully rounded incarnations, you can now go back to all the other BSG albums and enjoy the development of each of these musical ideas from their infancy.
    These scores for McCreary's BSG is the television equivalent of Shore's The Lord Of The Rings in terms of thematic development and depth of musical ideas. Although very, very different in style obviously.
    For me Season 4 is definitely the very best BSG release. And I didn't think they could top season 3!


    I think 3 is probably the better album for me, still. Here, at a double cd, there isn't exactly anything you would call 'filler', but the larger scale action tracks (e.g. 'Attack on the Colony') don't touch 'Storming New Caprica' and 'Mandala in the Clouds', and season 3 had the two best emotional setpiece cues of the series ('Deathbed and Maelstrom', 'Violence and Variations').


    Yes. The cues you mentioned are all brilliant tracks for sure. Indeed the best musical moments of the whole series! But I love the whole presentation of the season 4 score release. There's so much 'bang for your buck' here! To many cues to mention but tracks like 'Diaspora Oratorio' (a gloriously beautiful piece!), 'The Cult Of Baltar' and 'Kara Remembers' from disc one. And pretty much all of 'Daybreak' on disc two is just a perfect ending to the whole cycle!
    That theme Bear wrote for 'Caprica City, Before The Fall' and 'Earth' reminds me slightly of Goldsmith's theme from Alien. No bad thing there!
    I'm wrapped in the whole thing though. Including his score for Caprica.
    Cant' wait for Razor and The Plan to be released! lick
  6. I still haven't quite gotten into 'Diaspora Oratorio'. It could be the (slightly pretentious?) title in part, but even in the episode, I didn't quite see what the hoo-haa was.
    As I listen to the album tonight, 'Blood on the Scales' is a definite standout. punk
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorAtham
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    What hoo-haa? Unless you mean when they found a certain planet? Quite appropriate music for such a thing!
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      CommentAuthorWilliam
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    NP: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Howard Shore

    Excellent score with a great many memorable motifs! punk
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      CommentAuthorDemonStar
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    NP: Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea - Joe Hisaishi

    Lovely, charming score by the maestro! punk
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    NP : THUNDERBALL - John Barry



    No film composers do underwater music better than Barry or Bernard Herrmann, though I do find there's just a bit too much of it on this expanded release. The real meat is in the action tracks Street Chase, Bond Joins Underwater Battle, Underwater Mayhem & Death of Largo and of course, a big balsy instrumental rendition of Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

    Still enough here to kick the shit out of any other Bond composers efforts.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    Underwater music. Good for a topic? I'd add Finding Nemo!
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    Darn, that was gonna be my pick! Hmm... Waterworld? Atlantis?
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    One of the best underwater scores I heard was for a BBC documentary about giant turtles by Colin Towns which is not available in any form whatsoever including the fact I e-mailed him ( and got a nice reply back ).
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorEric
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    The Mutant Chronicles - Richard Wells

    My first listen after seeing the movie some months ago ...
    "Simplicity is the key to brilliance"
  15. BobdH wrote
    Darn, that was gonna be my pick! Hmm... Waterworld? Atlantis?


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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    Angela Morley was quite a talent. I wonder just how much work she did do for John Williams?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    In the Electric Mist - Marco Beltrami

    Absolutely fantastic. My favourite score of 2009 by FAR.
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    Sounds interesting James. That's the film about a rascist murder, right!? What kind of score is it? Orchestral, bluesy????
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorBhelPuri
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    Southall wrote
    In the Electric Mist - Marco Beltrami

    Absolutely fantastic. My favourite score of 2009 by FAR.


    Friggin'. I didn't know Varese was releasing limited editions outside of the CD club. Ouch. This hurts.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    Timmer wrote
    Sounds interesting James. That's the film about a rascist murder, right!? What kind of score is it? Orchestral, bluesy????


    It reminds me of my other two favourite Beltrami scores, Three Burials and 3:10 to Yuma, but instead of the western influence, it's more of a Cajun sound. It's a score which relies heavily on atmosphere.
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  21. Eric wrote
    The Mutant Chronicles - Richard Wells

    My first listen after seeing the movie some months ago ...


    and Eric, what do you think?
    Is my review correct or totally shite?
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
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      CommentAuthorNautilus
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009 edited
    I just come back fom Scotland....

    WOW! Just, AMAZING. The landscapes are really gorgeous, specially in Skye Island.

    I made 2000 km in 7 days. But it's really worth to do it.

    Something new here???

    NP:LOTR: The Two Towers

    It was my score for my travel. Howard Shore new choral composition and themes really captures the majestousity of the landscape.
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      CommentAuthorLSH
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    The Snow Walkers - Mychael Danna

    A lovely score.
  24. Atham wrote
    What hoo-haa? Unless you mean when they found a certain planet? Quite appropriate music for such a thing!


    The hoo-haa on McCreary's blog. He writes about it - and many of the fans praise it - like it was a major step for him compositionally. It doesn't stir me, either during the episode or now. I can much more understand the fuss made about 'The Hub', 'Kara Remembers' or 'Gaeta's Lament'.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
  25. Southall wrote
    In the Electric Mist - Marco Beltrami

    Absolutely fantastic. My favourite score of 2009 by FAR.


    It's time to get a DVD of this for me. The book the film is based on has a great title (In the electric mist with the confederate dead), the film is directed by a great director (Bertrand Travernier), and now Southall thinks it's the best score of the year! wink
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    franz_conrad wrote
    Southall wrote
    In the Electric Mist - Marco Beltrami

    Absolutely fantastic. My favourite score of 2009 by FAR.


    It's time to get a DVD of this for me. The book the film is based on has a great title (In the electric mist with the confederate dead), the film is directed by a great director (Bertrand Travernier), and now Southall thinks it's the best score of the year! wink


    I must admit, I had forgotten about Star Trek, which is also an album I loved.

    I am very intrigued by the film, but it got some lousy reviews, including a scathing one by a man named Clark Douglas, whose opinions on these things don't tend to stray too far from my own.
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  27. There are two versions of the film. One for Europe, and one which you can actually get, which is for American TV. I've no doubt the latter is the one that got the review. Apparently it has a completely tacked-on twist ending.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2009
    Didn't realise that. So is the worldwide DVD the American version?
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  29. Southall wrote
    Didn't realise that. So is the worldwide DVD the American version?


    I think so. I haven't looked into it yet.

    NP: Krull (Horner)

    I've been revisting some Horner this morning. This and Spitfire Grill. Both good works.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorEric
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2009
    Thomas Glorieux wrote
    and Eric, what do you think?
    Is my review correct or totally shite?


    You were spot on with your review Thomas . punk
    I was very pleasantly surprised with this OST .

    You see , sometimes little gems do exist ! wink
    "Simplicity is the key to brilliance"

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