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There are so many albums being released by the labels – major and otherwise – that we can barely keep up. Intrada Records have just released yet another James Horner rarity hot on the heels of House of Cards (which sold out before we even knew anything about it!); Extreme Close-Up was a 1990 television movie which the busy composer scored for director Ed Zwick (Glory, Legends of the Fall). It’s a little known entry in the Horner filmography and is already selling fast with fewer than 150 copies left, so get to www.intrada.com quicksmart!
While you’re there you might want to check out another popular release, being an album comprising three unreleased Fox scores from the 1950s. What Price Glory, Fixed Bayonets and The Desert Rats featured scores by three composing greats – Alfred Newman, Roy Webb and Leigh Harline – for films by three directing giants: John Ford, Sam Fuller and Robert Wise. It looks to be a fine set with the original scores featuring well considered adaptations of period music also. Don’t miss it, especially with less than 250 copies remaining!
La La Land Records continue to deliver hitherto unreleased specialties and their forthcoming release of Joe Renzetti’s Child’s Play is no exception. The film has become a horror classic with the creepy tale of a cursed doll, exacting revenge on behalf of the vicious murderer whose soul he carries within, freaking out and delighting fans since it graced screens in the late 1980s. Continuing their creepfest, the label also unleashes Night of the Creeps…
MovieScore Media has a full roser of releases as ever, highlighting new works by both up and coming and well established film composers working on big and small screen projects. Scott Glasgow’s Toxic is one of the most eagerly awaited of these, as the young LA-based composer has so far impressed greatly with the likes of Bone Dry, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles and The Gene Generation. The label continue their relationship with the talented composer, having previously released his scores for Chasing Ghosts and Hack!
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Other composers whom MovieScore have championed in the past are Guy Farley and Jeff Grace and the coming weeks see yet more releases by the increasingly listenable composers. Farley’s Knife Edge is sure to exhibit more well conceived melody and colour, while Grace’s intuitive horror approach will likely make the double presentation of House of the Devil and I Can See You one to look out for.
The label is increasingly presenting scores for theatrically released movies and coming soon are the scores for horror flick Triangle (composed by Christian Henson & Dot Allison) and Pandorum (by Michl Britsch, for the sci-fi thriller starring Dennis Quaid). Last but not least will be a second album of music from the BBC fantasy series Merlin by Rob Lane and Rohan Stevenson – definitely one to watch out for.
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Some of the current and forthcoming box office draws will be treated to album releases, with Alexandre Desplat’s score for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox being one of the more anticipated titles.
Released by ABKCO Records, who have so far released soundtrack albums to comedy crowdpleasers such as All About Steve, I Love You Beth Cooper and Post Grad, this release of Desplat’s original score is an interesting departure for the label, though a welcome one, and it cosies up against Rolf Kent’s music for The Men Who Stare At Goats, which is also available soon. Desplat’s other tentpole release will of course be Twilight: New Moon, which will be available in November from E1 Records. Carter Burwell was of course responsible for the first instalment and his latest big screen effort – A Serious Man – is to be released by Lakeshore Records.
2012 is one of the big hopes of the autumn season as Roland Emmerich once again unleashes hell on the world, this time with the Mayan Calendar’s advent of Apocalypse in mind. The German director once again turns to his current composing team of choice Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander to create what is likely to be a fairly unsurprising score. Whatever the result, the score is to be released by RCA/Sony in a few weeks.
The Fourth Kind sees Atli Orvarsson create music for the alien abduction thriller and his efforts are to be made available courtesy of Varese Sarabande in November, alongside Gabriel Yared’s score for Amelia, composed for the film about British aviation icon Amelia Earhart.
So, much to look forward to - we hope to get many of the major releases reviewed in good time; watch this space!
Michael Beek
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