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NP: MIAMI VICE - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION (Jan Hammer)

One of my favourite soundtracks, a superb 2CD set that goes for big bucks on the second hand market. Wish there were more MV music out there, also the stuff by Tim Truman.

Brave - Patrick Doyle

It's OK - some really good parts, some mediocre parts. There are places where the music just doesn't seem to be doing anything; but usually some engaging, lively passage just round the corner to lift things up again.

I am looking forward to hearing Brave when I get a hold of it. Most of the comments I have read about Doyle's score are very enthusiastic.

I hope it's better than the much-hyped and probably-not-so-good (From the first listens i threw) AMAZING SPIDERMAN

I agree, and the best Spiderman score so far I've heard (haven't heard Horner's yet)

I do always enjoy this story:



(I disagree, by the way )

NP: Orchestral Film Music 1969-1994 - Michael J. Lewis

Got this one off Thor a while back, and I'm glad he parted with it (although I can't understand it!): what a gorgeous collection of themes, strong, vibrant, melodic and varied. I only knew the man's work from his wonderful Theatre Of Blood, but the mainstay of themes on this double CD is equally as good, or even better!

The Northafrican rhythms on Sphinx mixed up with a great theme, the profoundly lovely Pieta from Upon This Rock, the powerful presence on Julius Caesar...just a few highlights on a great compilation! Really enjoying the hell out of this!

NP: The Last Place On Earth - Trevor Jones

Evocative in its music for Antarctica, this score is glorious.
Beautiful, almost elegiac, even meditative at points, this is a relatively early work of Jones that really deserves a proper remastering and CD release (I am listening to the vinyl rip I made). The weave of electronics and orchestra work really well (I think Jones does a really good job at that anyway), and the electronics serve to depict the bleak and beautiful, lonely landscape. The theme, as we're used to from Jones, is just gorgeous.

I wondered if all the Lewis tracks that were showing up on your last.fm profile earlier was a compilation. The Sphinx theme is excellent.

It's a good set, although some some of the tracks are a little too 'obvious' and sounds a bit like the music they play in big Christian meetings in the USA -- heavy on the cymbal crashes! But by all means, I probably wouldn't have sold it if didn't already had it in my iTunes. The selling and giving away is more about reducing my physical collection these days.

Not my church. We're a strictly organ church. Actually, that's not entirely true (we sometimes have musical numbers involving piano, flute, strings, or harp), but I've certainly never seen a cymbal at church!

I just finished JNH's THE GREAT DEBATERS. It's nice and noble. A little uneventful, perhaps, but the final trio of tracks is quite good, especially the last.

Now I'm on to Isham's EIGHT BELOW. After all the praise I'd heard about it I was a little disappointed on my first two listens. We'll see how it fares on the third. Sadly, my itunes download only gave me the first minute of "The Journey Begins" (the second track). Too bad - if the first minute is any indication of the rest of the track.

Sounds a bit revival-ish?
But maybe it's a Norwegian thing: I can't really place it either, and I really didn't have any such connotations.
Anyway, really happy with it. The highlight of the batch back then for me!

Yeah, revivalish. It's definitely not Norwegian...it's a pure American phenomenon. If I just could remember the name of the damn things; or some of the pastors. Pat Robertson is a name that springs to mind, but I know it's not him. DAMMIT!