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Please keep the discussion focused on the music and not the political/religious content. Thanks.
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It STILL isn't in iTunes' US Store (it is internationally!!!), though it is available through Amazon MP3.
If I go digital, I've always had good luck with iTunes having an acceptable fidelity for a digital download. I've never downloaded from Amazon MP3 except a few random single tracks here and there.
Anyone know if the score fidelity coming from Amazon is equivalent to iTunes? I always get scared of the compression of MP3s and seem to have better luck with AAC. I just don't want something overly compressed.
I talked with a guy at a label about this very thing a few months back. He said the order of quality goes HDTracks, Google, Amazon, Itunes.
HDtracks offers lossless FLAC/AIFF, Google offer 320KBPS, Amazon and Itunes are about the same but he told me Amazon's master is based from a FLAC file and I've bought them to compare and it always seems Amazon is a tad bit brighter sounding to me.
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You can buy it from HDtracks in FLAC or AIFF and not worry at all about those compression issues.
https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=0030206716320
Holy gadzooks. What HAVE I been missing. I didn't even know that site existed!!!! I feel like such a moron.
Any suggestions on FLAC vs. AIFF?
If you love the Batman score pick that up in 24/96. Oh my god is all I have to say!
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Oct 2, 2012 - 9:57 PM
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This score might well be one of the more anticipated scores in Horner history. I suppose there's many times when scores have sat on shelves for extended periods before being released. Its just not often we learn about them so publicly as we did for Cristiada!
So here it is, after a year and a half of waiting? And was it worth it?
The answer is a resounding YES. This is the Horner of Willow writing in broad, dense strokes. This is a very special Horner score.
I don't think there was a dull moment in the score. It is vibrant with heartbreaking themes, extreme shifts of emotion, incredible intelligence, and extreme depth. Horner has the orchestra doing something at every moment of activity.
The themes themselves are plenty and go through about every permutation possible. I'm not sure a theme is played the same twice throughout the score...except for maybe when Clara Sanabras is singing. But that's the exception, and her voice is heartbreaking enough you welcome the beauty of its appearances.
Speaking of Clara, I'm not sure WHAT inspired Horner to pick her, but it was indeed an inspired choice. Her solo work is along the lines of an obnoxious Loreena McKennitt...I was not even remotely impressed. I was thinking the choice of Sanabras was like picking McKennitt to wail on The Passion of the Christ or some such thing. Yet, Sanabras aquits herself amazingly...singing with a great pain and bittersweet heartbreak. Her appearances aren't sparse, but aren't common either. They're welcomed when they appear.
Interestingly, the danger theme appears here at about the same level as Willow or Enemy at the Gates, but he takes it through just about every permutation of it he can.
Also interesting, I counted hearing themes not just from The Four Feathers, but also from Braveheart, The New World, and Avatar. Look for those cameo appearances (except for The Four Feathers, each of the above appear once...so yes, I see them as cameos!). I urge you to get past these things and appreciate the score for what it is. Scores like this just aren't written anymore.
But yes, listen for instrumental creativity dating back to Krull...Willow...all the big Horner hits. This score certainly can stand proudly among them. Its just that good. Sadly, I fear it won't get that kind of recognition due to the low profile of the movie.
But this is as ***** as ***** scores come. Certainly the best of Horner's 2011/2012 output.
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At the start I felt like I was listening to 'The Four Masks of Bravehaert' but it's like somebody said, once you get passed that it's again clear what an extremely good dramatist Horner is. He sure knows how to get the adrenaline going...lot of goosebumps.
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