What are you listening to now?
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I’ve always been critical of Goldsmith’s synth noodlings, but the “Gremlins Rag”, man, the “Gremlins Rag”. I dig that.
But of course now I do. Guthrie being one of the founders of Cocteau Twins and the late Budd a legend in the ambient/minimalism genre.
Cocteau Twins were as a Band one of the rare cases who got constantly better and better during their career and really ended it with their best album. I regreted when they finished but I didn’t follow the band members’ careers afterwards. I just recognized Elizabeth Fraser’s name on some soundtrack albums, e.g. by Craig Armstrong or Howard Shore.
I sampled that yesterday. It’s a difficult score to assess. First, Zimmer’s fluffy “dramedy” scores have never been favourites of mine. Second, it was nonetheless comforting to know that he’s still able to channel that old Brooks style, with warm orchestral elements. But then third again, although he channelled it pretty decently, it was somehow without the melodic flair of those from 20-30 years ago. It’s just “there”. So yes, I’m torn in all kinds of directions with this.
An excellent Goodwin sampler, this. I prefer the second, more pastoral part over the boisterous first half. Sadly, it doesn’t have anything from my favourite Goodwin score, VALHALLA (also his last), but thankfully that was released on Plantsounds a couple of years ago. Have that on CD even, and reviewed it here (Google translated version).
I owned this FSM CD, then (stupidly) traded it away, or sold it. Don’t know why. But it was too long, I remember that; I’ve made my own 49-minute playlist that makes it come alive. Dark and suave all at once, with some of those baroque jazz melancholy elements I love. I know the film is a cult classic, but I actually prefer the Will Smith version!
Inspired by Jon’s Tangerine Dream filmography, I pulled out one of my old TD albums (although this one is not film music).
It’s a double LP with two of their earliest releases, ALPHA CENTAURI (1971) and ATEM (1973). I’m no Tangerine Dream expert, but surely this must be more experimental than most of their later work. There’s not a lot of melody or rhythm, and although there are some ambient and/or tonal layers in ALPHA CENTAURI, for instance with flute and organ, the synth and percussion overlays are pretty wild and weird. ATEM is all psychedelic moods. Quite fascinating! I felt totally spaced out after listening. 😀Would have been a cool entry in the Tangerine Dream thread, Nils. But yes, I’ve sampled it. I’m afraid it’s too “out there” for my taste, as is most of TD’s 70s ouput. But by all means fascinating. However, I find myself more drawn to the psychedelic noodlings of Pink Floyd, for example.
Would have been a cool entry in the Tangerine Dream thread, Nils. But yes, I’ve sampled it. I’m afraid it’s too “out there” for my taste, as is most of TD’s 70s ouput. But by all means fascinating. However, I find myself more drawn to the psychedelic noodlings of Pink Floyd, for example.
Yes, I wasn’t sure if it should go in this thread or in the TD thread. As you can see, it ended up here. 🙂
And I agree that Pink Floyd is a bit more accessible when they’re in a similar mood.
Norwegian Rockband FastLoaders plays music from the classic C-64 video game soundtrack of THE LAST NINJA by Ben Daglish:
Anyone here played that game back then, too?
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