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(October 7, 2014 – Los Angeles, CA) Aleph Records will release the ENTER THE DRAGON: EXTENDED EDITION CD soundtrack on November 11, 2014. The album features 56 minutes of Lalo Schifrin’s original score, much of it previously unavailable in any format.
“It was a challenge to take music from the Orient – not the stereotypical Fu Manchu ideas that Hollywood had about Chinese music, but something more authentic – and do it bigger than life, as Ennio Morricone had in the spaghetti westerns,” said Schifrin.
ENTER THE DRAGON was the first martial arts film produced by Americans and would be actor Bruce Lee’s final film. Both the film and Schifrin’s score have earned cult followings in the 40 years since the initial release. The film was added to the National Film Registry in 2004.
But to a certain generation, it is Schifrin’s score for ENTER THE DRAGON that set the standard. Director Brett Ratner (who would go on to hire Schifrin to score his RUSH HOUR trilogy) said “ENTER THE DRAGON is one of my favorite movies, but its one of my favorite movies for one main reason: that it’s the best score I have ever heard in any movie,” (KCRW interview, October 26, 2011).
Kung Fu culture has proven to be a major influence on the development of hiphop culture, movies and music – and both the film and Lalo’s score are still recognized as major influencers. Even as recently as 2013, the group Blue Scholars released a song called “Lalo Schifrin”, boasting the lyric “I compose fight music like Lalo Schifrin/Me and Bruce Lee, not so different.”
Recruited by an intelligence agency, outstanding martial arts student Bruce Lee participates in a brutal karate tournament hosted by the evil Han (Kien Shih). Along with champions Roper (John Saxon) and Williams (Jim Kelly), he uncovers Han’s white slavery and drug trafficking ring located on a secret island fortress. In the exciting climax, hundreds of freed prisoners fight in an epic battle with Lee and Han locked in a deadly duel.
“Lee told me that there was a 2,000-year tradition in martial arts,” Schifrin described his first meeting with the film’s star Bruce Lee. “He had to learn all of the rules in order to break them. Right away, I found we had that in common: I studied classical music, centuries of European classical tradition, rules and regulations, things that you can and cannot do. And then we break all the rules.”
Track Listing:
Prologue – The First Fight 2:36
Main Titles 2:20
Su-Lin (The Monk) 4:56
Sampans and Flashbacks 6:19
Han’s Island 2:54
The Banquet 3:02
Headset Jazz 2:10
The Gentle Softness 2:40
Into The Night 3:43
Goodbye Oharra 1:54
Bamboo Birdcage 2:32
Han’s Cruelty 3:09
The Human Fly 3:34
The Big Battle 4:47
Broken Mirrors 5:54
End Titles 1:06
Theme From Enter The Dragon 2:23
Main Titles (Alternate) 3:17
http://scoretrackinenglish.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/aleph-records-to-release-enter-the-dragon-extended-edition-soundtrack/
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This has one extra track than the Warner Bros release from 1998 ('Theme from Enter The Dragon').
If you don't have this, you should get it.
Does anyone suppose this will sound any different/better then the re-mix and master Dan Wallin did for that release?
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I've got the first release and it sounds great.
I probably don't need this but I could be tempted if it sounds even better.
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Aleph tends to use pretty hot masters for things. I am interested if the sound is improved, but I want to hear reactions before springing.
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I suspect the added track would be the main title version with Bruce Lee yells overlayed, a track I have a certain affection for, having listened to the LP version for so many years.
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Well, if this release could have been bettered in any way at all—and I'm not saying it needs to be in any way at all—it would have been for it to be a 2CD with the album recording on the other disc.
I actually really love the short album and I sometimes play that one even though I have the previous release of the expanded edition.
That said, I own both versions already.
Will I double dip?
I wouldn't if it was a straight reissue: it just wouldn't be necessary.
But the word 'remastered' (which implies 'sounds even better') is a temptation.
How much better can it sound, though? The previous edition sounded pretty damn good if I recall.
Cheers
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Hopefully it's not brickwalled to death, which is a huge problem with all the modern Schifrin albums (though not so much with the catalog reissues).
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I lucked into getting the earlier release by finding the VHS Collectors Edition (with the soundtrack) for like $10. It sounds great to me, so I'll let this one go, but damn happy it's gonna be back out there. This is an amazing, funky score.
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Well, if this release could have been bettered in any way at all—and I'm not saying it needs to be in any way at all—it would have been for it to be a 2CD with the album recording on the other disc.
I actually really love the short album and I sometimes play that one even though I have the previous release of the expanded edition.
Cheers
My personal program of the expanded version is 42 minutes, so yeah !
brm
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