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Speaking of religious sounds, kudos to guitarist Pat Metheny for crafting an actual, gorgeous psalm for this. The rest of the score is great too, more folksy/jazzy/poppy in tone.
Jaws. It’s always a good time for Jaws, but I was checking out the latest remaster to see if it was worth consideration from my limited budget, and the lp program comes across to me as harsh and loud. In an attempt to clean it up, MM seems to have made its flaws more apparent. The original lp on the 90s cd was no audiophile presentation, but it has a naturalness, and extremely 70s analog quality, to it that I appreciate. Since I don’t care about the full score, that’s $40 saved, I suppose.
I bought the first Intrad 2CD edition because that indeed sounded better to me than the original album and the 20th(?) anniversary release I had. I also didn’t find the new edition’s samples significantly better.
I very much enjoy THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, great Pat Metheny album.
As far as Intrada’s new JAWS release is concerned, I’m on the fence about it. On the one hand, I do have most previous JAWS releases (including the original LP), so I might as well get this one. However, I’m basically only interested in the original film score, much less the album, and I find that was already excellently remastered in the previous Intrada edition. The new master is good (it’s on Qobuz), but not really “better”. The thing is, audio technology has been long at the point where you basically get the same sound quality at home that is on the original tapes. I find the new album master from what I’ve heard excellent, certainly clear and sharp, but again, the previous release also had already an excellent master of the LP.I’m currently listening to this, just discovered it… a new recording of one of my favorite modern classical compositions.
Great (although slightly uneven album) ambient/house/trance from 1999. Creator Lars Marcus Jungnell now lives in my city.
Another entry in this series with Dirk Brossé and the Brussels Philharmonic; for some reason it passed me by and I only recently discovered there were already over a dozen of these, though I already had the Goldenthal and Rosenthal albums.
Three TV and one feature score (JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN) from Fielding. I already had JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN and A WAR OF CHILDREN on other releases, but not HONKY TONK or MR. HORN, so I’ve started with those. I really enjoy Fielding’s tight, lean orchestral writing, and both of these are great examples of that. Although HONKY TONK is more lightweight and lively, and at a times a bit too, uh, honky tonk for my taste.
Great sound quality, with that clean, close-miked recording style that Fielding favored.
I love Jerry Fielding, definitely one of the greats.
Absolutely! Too bad he left us way too early. As I understand it, he basically worked himself to death. After being blacklisted during the McCarthy era, he couldn’t find work, and when he finally could work again, it seems he said yes to more or less everything.
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