NICHOLAS DODD

Great news, thanks for the heads-up Thomas!

now this I gotta have
wehoo, great new music keeps coming towards as

If you followed the link you would have found out that the release date is 22/01/2008

-Erik-

MovieScore Media presents
TREASURED ISLAND
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed and Conducted by
Nicholas Dodd

Sound clips and more info:
http://www.moviescoremedia.com/treasuredisland.html

Limited CD edition (500 copies) distributed by Screen Archives Entertainment:
http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=8344

Download album in 320kbit mp3 format here:
http://www.filmmusicdownloads.com/WebFi … tm?id=5972

Download album on iTunes here:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt … p;s=143441

Fans of David Arnold surely recognize the name of the composer of this spectacular swashbuckler score – Nicholas Dodd has orchestrated and conducted all of Arnold’s famous scores, including Stargate, Independence Day and all the four latest James Bond scores. The huge orchestral score Dodd has composed for the French-British adventure movie, Treasured Island (L’Île aux trésors), is only his second as a solo composer, following the acclaimed Renaissance which came out in 2006. This is an amazing roller-coaster ride of a score, filled with exciting action writing, grandiose themes (we’ve been humming the main theme ever since we heard it for the first time, and there is also a wonderful Barry-esque love theme in the score) and an abundance of big and complex orchestrations. Performed with great stamina and enthusiasm by London's Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of the composer, Treasured Island is the type of swashbuckling symphonic score that got many fans of film music attracted to the genre in the first place!

MMS08002 TREASURED ISLAND: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Music Composed and Conducted by NICHOLAS DODD Release date: January 22, 2008.
CD edition is limited to 500 copies.

For a preview of our upcoming CD releases, please visit http://www.moviescoremedia.com/comingsoon.html

Anyone listened to his first score Renaissance? how is it?

I wrote the following in the NOW PLAYING thread a few weeks ago.

"The score sounds like any number of David Arnold works but there is something missing... oh ya, David Arnold. It has a big, BIG sound with thick, dense orchestrations and some underlining electronics during the action cues that just doesn't seem to fit for a film of this type. Now, I say a big, BIG sound but that's not the case for the entire score. A lot of it is fairly ordinary filler music that isn't all that interesting. There's not a lot of thematic development besides the main theme but the rest of it comes across kind of ordinary. It just didn't do anything for me but it might be a worthy purchase for those that want to hear what Dodd can do on his own."

-Erik-

Oh no! I don't know why I bought this. I'm not a fan of the Arnold/Dodd kind of action scores. Perhaps the "limited to 500 only" had a part to play in my decision. I haven't received it yet but based on your comments I doubt if I'll play it much. Let's see!

I hate to be negative about this score since I'm actually suppose to help Mikael promote it via my show... and trust me I will get this and the other recent MSM scores on the program - but personally it didn't do anything for me.

-Erik-

I just ordered it. That "less than 75 copies left" put me on a rush...Let's wait and see if the $21 is well spent.

That's a very well selling album then!?

What is your best selling cd so far Mikael?
Including downloads.

Well, if you end up not liking it you could probably sell it for at least $10, making it basically the same deal.

In most cases I'd agree that the 320kbps download version is the way to go - I have several of these releases from Mikael's label via download purchase. But after I had several sent to me as physical CDs I've been willing to pay that little extra for the CD.

These CDs aren't full of track analyses, booklets full of movie photos, etc. On the contrary, these digipak(?) cases just have a short composer resumé and maybe a few paragraphs on the movie or a comment or two from the director/composer. But the production value of these cases (including the vibrant glossy artwork) is something I just enjoy having. Of the scores I have downloaded, I don't think I have printed any artwork or burned the tracks to CD.

I think I can review Treasured Island in two sentences:

Leave the writing to David or Clint. Leave the orchestrating to Nick.

I bought four copies of "My best friend's wedding" promo scores for $3 each, with resell value in mind. hahaha

Well, it all depends on WHERE you got your MP3's from. There is a possiblilty that those 320k MP3's could have been 1928k or 192k MP3 that someone reencoded at 320k which means you are still loosing quality. BTW, I don't think any one here can tell the difference between a 320K MP3 ripped directly from a CD and an uncompressed CD file.

-Erik-