What are you listening to now?
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I found Soil Festivities a rather difficult album to get into. But I know it was an inspiration for Jonathan Elias when he made Requiem For The Americas.
I have personally always loved SOIL FESTIVITIES.
It may have been my first “real” Vangelis album (after the New American Orchestra BLADE RUNNER album).
Such a lovely score. Super melodic, warm orchestral consonance. Even if I have no interest in Miss Marple (watched some as a kid, not keen on traditional crime these days). I like Scherrer (THE HONEYTRAP and BOAT STORY are two others worth recommending).
The old Ron Goodwin theme is of course a classic and one of my first film theme memories. Not familiar with Scherrer or this Marple version. First notice him with this weird British dinosaur time travel TV show PRIMEVAL I think. If anyone knows that…
Sorry, I’ve never been able to warm to SOIL FESTIVITIES. A bit stark. Maybe some day.
Interesting, it’s always been on of my favorite Vangelis albums, and I find it warm, with fluid, melodic soundscapes.
His next album, INVISIVLE CONNECTIONS (which I also like a lot) is maybe a bit stark, but I find SOIL FESTIVITIES quite the opposite.This was an impressive old-fashioned score from 2023 that passed me by. 36 minutes of solid orchestral colours.
It’s actually quite good, very well sounding… 9 tracks, 39 minutes, like a Soundtrack LP of yore. Nice musical flow.
What’s the music like? How to describe it quickly? It’s WATERWORLD/GRAND CANYON meets INCEPTION/DARK KNIGHT.
Inviting “open ocean” music and more pulse pounding suspense/action cues.
It’s an album I now added to my collection after one listen, I enjoyed it and will return to it. Excellent sound quality on top.This is typically excellent work by BM. Each season different, but related. Not to be heard all in one sitting, of course.
It’s actually quite good, very well sounding… 9 tracks, 39 minutes, like a Soundtrack LP of yore. Nice musical flow.
Thanks!
This is typically excellent work by BM. Each season different, but related. Not to be heard all in one sitting, of course.
Yeah, I like the Outlander scores a lot as well. Probably – as Thor would say – it could in total use some shortening here and there but overall great. As with funky 70s stuff you nearly always get me with Celtic flavor, too… And I actually like the show itself, too.
The closest thing to a soundtrack is a ballet suite. This one is very modern and cinematic in style, a bit Williamsy even in parts, while staying true to Ye’s distinctive style.
The film is a nature documentary of sorts, by Norwegian filmmaker Margreth Olin, about her parents (particularly her father) and their relationship with nature and the spectacular landscape where they live in western Norway.
The score by Rebekka Karijord is mostly acoustic (strings and choir), with some electronic elements. She also adds natural sounds – wind, running water, creaking glaciers – to the soundscape. Quite beautiful and haunting, just like the movie.
Very melodic, colorful, and in the best sense cinematic and old fashioned. Listening to it, it’s almost kind of surprising Anthony Hopkins didn’t score more movies himself. 🙂
I love his score for AUGUST (a film he directed and starred in as well). I’ve been meaning to check out that new album; he was never a very complex composer (unlike his acting — he’s my second favourite actor of all time!), but it’s all very professional. His musical background shines through. It’s nice that he’s getting some late-career recognition for that side of his work.
There is a somehow cute promo video from the sessions I just stumbled upon:
Interestingly there was also an almost name twin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Hopkins
I seem not to have anything by him not even on some Brish film score samples and are not sure I know anything at all. Anyone know him?It helps the production is first class, excellent Decca recording, the renowned Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, very good soloists. The Guardian wrote:
“The spacious recording is state-of-the-art. Those who appreciate easy-on-the-ear melody and good old-fashioned craft should find plenty to enjoy.”It’s that. It feels a bit autobiographical too, as the compositions come from various phases of his life.
The sound quality of this bootleg is really excellent.
Track list
1 Nice To Be Around
2 New Shooter
3 Maggie Shoots Pool
4 Maggie And Baggs
5 Boxing Montage
6 Neptune’s Bar
7 Cinderella Liberty Love Theme
8 The Ferry Ride
9 A Baby Boy Arrives
10 Nice To Be Around
11 The Reivers Overture
12 Main Title / First Instruction / The Winton Flyer
13 Family Funeral / Luclus’ First Drive
14 The Road To Memphis
15 Corrie’s Entrance / The Picture
16 Reflections
17 The Sherrif Departs / The Bad News / Ned’s Secret
18 Memphis
19 Ned’s Trade
20 The People Protest
21 Prayers At Bedtime
22 Luclus Runs To Corrie / Back Home
23 Finale
24 The Reivers RepriseI have that, but haven’t listened to it. How is it?
RED SONJA is surprisingly lyrical and mystical, it’s a very accessible Morricone score. There’s a perky-sassy theme that’s heard in the Main Title, but major sections of the score feature voiceless “Ravelian” choir for a more mystical/mythic atmosphere.
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