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 Posted:   Dec 24, 2014 - 12:17 PM   
 By:   Chris Avis   (Member)


Again, there's nothing technically wrong, but even the most boring Horner scores usually aren't as anonymous as this.


Just received my copy yesterday and was able to give it a decent listen. I never owned the original release, so can't comment on how it stacks up. This is certainly not amongst Horner's greatest works, but I quite enjoyed the album. There are a number of tracks that are more subdued by Horner's standards, but I found theme contemplative and thought that they gave the score some nice breathing room between statements of the main theme. Overall, it's quite a nice album and one that I would recommend if you like this era of Horner's work and don't already own the earlier album.

Chris.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 25, 2014 - 6:31 AM   
 By:   counterpoint   (Member)

If Horner is *too* Horner he's moaned at. If he's not Horner enough he's moaned at. The poor fella can't win!

lol smile

 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2015 - 8:29 AM   
 By:   Ian J.   (Member)

I finally got this expansion a week or so ago and I have to say I do like it. It still strikes me as the most un-Horner sounding score though, with the exception of the main theme and a few snippets here and there.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2015 - 9:05 AM   
 By:   Chris Avis   (Member)

I finally got this expansion a week or so ago and I have to say I do like it. It still strikes me as the most un-Horner sounding score though, with the exception of the main theme and a few snippets here and there.

I personally love the album. I never owned the original, so can't compare the two, but this album plays very well. I'm surprised that something like this has attracted so little attention, when a release like Warlock has everyone singing its praises. (Sorry Warlock fans, but the score still sounds like 3rd rate Goldsmith to me!). Check this out if you haven't already.

Chris.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2015 - 10:34 PM   
 By:   streichorchester   (Member)

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but is there a reason why the Revenge track sounds like it's straight out of Back to the Future? I hear it every time I listen to this score, and it's always jarring. It's doesn't sound like Horner at all. Sounds like Silvestri.

 
 
 Posted:   May 28, 2015 - 1:53 PM   
 By:   connorb93   (Member)

I've said it before, it doesn't sound like Horner at all. For that, I give him credit for composing something so outside of his own style. That being said it doesn't make for much of a listen on album.

Just watched the film and the score works quite well, especially the action (surprisingly). I'll give the album another listen soon.

 
 Posted:   May 28, 2015 - 2:25 PM   
 By:   Loren   (Member)

To resurrect this thread made me think "availability until" some June date...

 
 Posted:   May 28, 2015 - 5:35 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

I've said it before, it doesn't sound like Horner at all. For that, I give him credit for composing something so outside of his own style. That being said it doesn't make for much of a listen on album.

Just watched the film and the score works quite well, especially the action (surprisingly). I'll give the album another listen soon.


The action music is good, but I would have been just as happy owning it with the name of whoever really wrote the score on the cover. And we could have had 20 years of whoever that was.

 
 
 Posted:   May 28, 2015 - 5:50 PM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

I always wondered if it was Thomas Pasatieri (Thomas Newman regular orchestrator) who scored all
the soooooo un-Horner-like sequences - he got top orch billing on the old Varese CD - or some other
uncredited ghoster?

 
 Posted:   May 28, 2015 - 5:55 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

I always assumed it was him, just because I had heard of him back then as Thomas Newman's orchestrator (he's actually a pretty accomplished classical composer).

 
 
 Posted:   May 28, 2015 - 6:38 PM   
 By:   GoblinScore   (Member)

You didn't hear Edgardo Simone wrote this?

Get with the times Rutherford, seriously. .....

-Sean

 
 Posted:   May 28, 2015 - 8:47 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

You didn't hear Edgardo Simone wrote this?

Get with the times Rutherford, seriously. .....

-Sean


References...

 
 
 Posted:   May 28, 2015 - 9:40 PM   
 By:   GoblinScore   (Member)

As in touche', or are you getting
all Thaxton on me....please tell me the
former, not the latter, right?

-S

 
 Posted:   May 28, 2015 - 10:05 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

As in touche', or are you getting
all Thaxton on me....please tell me the
former, not the latter, right?

-S


You know me by now, man! Haha

 
 Posted:   May 29, 2015 - 12:03 AM   
 By:   Ian J.   (Member)

[sarcastic]

Knowing as we do his penchant for 're-use' of his own music, I think the most telling give-away is that none of the music from AFOP seems to have appeared in any of Horner's other scores...

wink

[/sarcastic]

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 12, 2016 - 9:32 PM   
 By:   JB Fan   (Member)

Far Off Place will be TOO far after 2 weeks (or maybe sooner!)!

AVAILABLE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 26 2016 OR WHILE SUPPLIES LAST

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 6, 2024 - 9:06 AM   
 By:   c8   (Member)

For anyone curious, I looked this one up on GEMA and I think it solves the mystery surrounding the rumors of Horner having had significant help on this one. This is the only Horner score I found where he's the only credited composer on the album but there's multiple credited composers in the GEMA database.

1. Main Title 5:17 (Horner solo)
2. Nonnie's Rescue 0:38 (Horner, Joel Rosenbaum)
3. Cat Food Pâté 0:59 (Horner, Joel Rosenbaum)
4. Night Departure 2:47 (Horner, Joel Rosenbaum)
5. Entering the Cave 2:31 (Horner, Joel Rosenbaum)
6. The Slaughter 3:02 (Horner, Frank Bennett)
7. Nonnie Finds the Parents 1:01 (Brad Dechter, Horner)
8. Revenge 1:36 (Horner, Joel Rosenbaum)
9. Nonnie Escapes 3:18 (?)
10. Impossible Plan 1:18 (Horner, Joel Rosenbaum)
11. First Night Out 0:52 (not listed on GEMA; Horner solo?)
12. The Elephants 5:04 (Horner, Joel Rosenbaum)
13. The Baobob Tree 1:15 (Brad Dechter, Horner)
14. Attacked From the Air 3:43 (Brad Dechter, Horner)
15. Plane Aftermath 0:56 (Brad Dechter, Horner)
16. Inner Feelings 1:38 (not listed on GEMA; Horner solo?)
17. Digging for Water 2:49 (Brad Dechter, Horner)
18. Xhabbo the Poet 2:02 (Horner, Joel Rosenbaum)
19. Gemsbok Hunt 1:21 (Brad Dechter, Horner)
20. Gemsbok Gift 2:12 (Brad Dechter, Horner)
21. The Most Beautiful Gemsbok 1:25 (Brad Dechter, Horner)
22. Memories 1:41 (Horner, Joel Rosenbaum)
23. The Swamp 3:46 (Tom Pasatieri, Horner)
24. Scorpion 5:17 (Tom Pasatieri, Horner)
25. Sandstorm! 6:49 (Tom Pasatieri, Horner)
26. Reunion With Mopani 1:56 (Tom Pasatieri, Horner)
27. Ricketts' Death in the Mine 2:47 (Tom Pasatieri, Horner)
28. Epilogue / End Credits (Horner solo)

Joel Rosenbaum is also credited with "Kalahari", a track that isn’t on this list. Horner is credited solo for Mopani's Gift and Chant Underscore, not on the list.

I would love to know how something like this affects the labels licensing of a score because if Rosenbaum/Bennett/Dechter/Pasatieri are listed in the database as composers (and weren't just orchestrators here), it would mean surely they'd get paid for the tracks they wrote and make something like this a bit more complex to mete out. But I know those are politics we'd never be privy to.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 6, 2024 - 11:48 AM   
 By:   Avatarded   (Member)

I would love to know how something like this affects the labels licensing of a score because if Rosenbaum/Bennett/Dechter/Pasatieri are listed in the database as composers (and weren't just orchestrators here), it would mean surely they'd get paid for the tracks they wrote and make something like this a bit more complex to mete out. But I know those are politics we'd never be privy to.


It also lists Horner's editor Jim Henrikson as a composer on the catch-all title of "Far off place cues", so that's a bit confusing.


But then if you look up "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story"(just titled "We're Back") Horner is credited on everything when that animation director Phil Nibbelink said Horner basically pulled a Zimmer and let a team do it while he watched.

And that's a score that sounded even less like Horner's sound!

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2024 - 1:17 AM   
 By:   Ford A. Thaxton   (Member)

Picked the original up on ebay a few years back - a very enjoyable score. Looking forward to the expansion.
With this and Queenie it's a nice batch from Intrada to finish the year with, although whether I will receive them this year remains to be seen.


According to IMDB he worked on 10 films in 1993....

So it doesn't exactly surprise me that he called some "Rescue Rangers" to jump in an d help him meet the deadlines.

This seems like a case of him writing the theme(s) and overseeing it while he was working on another project.

Nothing wrong with doing it, even he was sharing cue sheet credits with those "Rescue Rangers"...

Ford A. Thaxton

 
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