What are you listening to now?
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That hand written font on the Intrada CD of STRAIGHT STORY is actually from posters, used with different images:
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/404-the-straight-story/images/posters
https://www.listal.com/viewimage/423195Yes, the Intrada is a straight re-issue of the original soundtrack album with the original poster art.
That’s the cover I actually have, it’s not all that much different?
Oh yes, much better. Proper font, better colour, Farnsworth heading the “right” way.
Is that the right direction? Not sure anymore.
But I too like the score a lot, it’s a very nice score for a good movie.Is that the right direction? Not sure anymore.
The photo does not really tell the direction, does it? 😉
Méchaly isn’t that interesting most of the time, but with this 2019 effort aka SWOON (plus MAGNIFICAT from 2023), he shows his chops, at least. Pretty old-school, romantic orchestral score heavy on waltzy themes, and with a Fellini/Rota-esque swagger, maybe a dash of Elfman’s EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (no doubt a temp track).
Pink Floyd, and its solo members, have dabbled in film music now and then. This 1987 Nick Mason score was finally released a few years ago. I don’t have it physically, as it’s only part of a box with his other two solo albums (which I already own on CD), only digitally. But it’s a fine, bluesy effort.
That cover should be tantalizing enough in itself, eh? So rest assured, this is a great, lush score by the interesting Errèra that goes from expansive to intimate. The composer blasted on to the scene (for me, anyway) with the delicious EDM score to NUIT BLANCHE in 2011, then this, then the Hisaishi-ian ADORING in 2019. Well worth checking out.
Pink Floyd, and its solo members, have dabbled in film music now and then. This 1987 Nick Mason score was finally released a few years ago. I don’t have it physically, as it’s only part of a box with his other two solo albums (which I already own on CD), only digitally. But it’s a fine, bluesy effort.
I just ordered this:
https://www.ark.no/produkt/boker/dokumentar-og-faktaboker/inside-out-9781474606486
Gotta be brutally honest: While I like many Rota things, I’ve always had a bit of trouble getting into his Fellini stuff (or Fellini’s films, for that matter) – it’s all so rowdy and noisy. But when he calms down a bit, it’s pretty nice. Same is true for this, the most classic of their collaborations.
Medicine Man and Rudy. I’ve been trying to love, rather than only appreciate, Goldsmith. Familiarity breeds affection (or contempt), so they say. I’m aiming for the former.
Is that the right direction? Not sure anymore.
The photo does not really tell the direction, does it?
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Well, only one direction is the “correct” direction of the pic… not sure though which it is.Now listening to…
Medicine Man and Rudy. I’ve been trying to love, rather than only appreciate, Goldsmith. Familiarity breeds affection (or contempt), so they say. I’m aiming for the former.
MEDICINE MAN is great. RUDY is kinda nice, and a lot of people seem to love it, but it gets a bit to saccharine for my taste.
MEDICINE MAN is great. RUDY is kinda nice, and a lot of people seem to love it, but it gets a bit to saccharine for my taste.
I know what you mean about Rudy, but it’s nice as background music while half asleep on the couch.
“The Religious Sound” is one of my absolute favourite sounds in music, and yes, I intend to do a thread on it eventually. It’s on full display here, in this gorgeous, pastoral score from 2021, which was my THIRD favourite score that year, no less!
Grand folly or unheralded masterpiece? The jury’s still out on that one, but the score is fascinating. A few words here.
I know what you mean about Rudy, but it’s nice as background music while half asleep on the couch.
Yes, I’m sure it’s very well suited for that. Multi-purpose music. 😉
I am so grateful when I manage to discover some great classical film music from the past 15 years proving that classical film music isn’t completely dead yet.
https://spotify.link/eyjcejY7vXb
This is one of this category.
What’s that? I ask, because I actually attended a medieval pageant of some sort, in Vendée in the mid 90s (school trip to France). Did Kaska set music to that? Or is it a film score?
Very interesting how Alex North incorporated some of the material for his unused score for 2001 -A Space Odyssey for the totally different in tone The Shoes of the Fisherman, yet both musical applications seem perfectly valid.
One of all time favorite film composers.I need to spend more time with Alex North. He might be more up my alley than Goldsmith.
A good start is THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY then. My favourite North, one of my top 50 favourite scores, and it has a Goldsmith prologue you can insert into the programme.
Didn’t he reuse some for AFRICA too? Or was it DRAGONSLAYER?
Yes, all three as far as I know 😉
A good start is THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY then. My favourite North, one of my top 50 favourite scores, and it has a Goldsmith prologue you can insert into the programme.
Yes, great one. I like North a lot. I don’t like all by him but I like his dissonant style although it is quite challenging.
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