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A SOUND OF THUNDER - Original Soundtrack by Nick Glennie-Smith
http://buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net/soofthorsoby.html
SRP: $17.95
LISTEN TO A SOUND CLIP FROM the score for A SOUND OF THUNDER
http://buysound.webjedi.net/Sound_of_Thunder/01_main_title.mp3
A SOUND OF THUNDER is a limited edition release of 1000 units. The first 100 Copies will be signed by Composer Nick Glennie-Smith.
Starts Shipping the week of March 16,2015
Dragon’s Domain Records presents the world premiere soundtrack release for A SOUND OF THUNDER, available through buysoundtrax.com. A SOUND OF THUNDER features music composed and conducted by Nick Glennie-Smith (THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK, WE WERE SOLDIERS, ELLA ENCHANTED) for the 2005 science fiction film directed by Peter Hyams (CAPRICORN ONE, OUTLAND, 2010), starring Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Sir Ben Kingsley, Jemima Rooper and David Oyelowo.
Written by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1952, A SOUND OF THUNDER was one of the first genre stories that examined the cause-and-effect of time travel on the traveler’s present day: how altering the past can have a major effect upon the future. The story takes place in the future, when technology has made time travel possible. This technology has been commercialized by one man, who uses time travel as a way of earning vast amounts of personal fortune by charging big game hunters massive fees to go back in time and face the ultimate game: the Tyrannosaurus Rex. When one of those hunters disobeys that rule and steps off the path, accidentally killing a butterfly in the process, the team returns home to discover the butterfly’s death has had a devastating effect on the world they’ve returned to. At a little over 4300 words, Bradbury’s story had focused on a single time safari and its irreversible effect upon the present day of 2055. The film script expands the story greatly, adding many more characters to the safari team and fleshing out the questionable Time Safari Inc. business model.
The score for A SOUND OF THUNDER is the work of Nick Glennie-Smith, a British-born composer who is one of the earliest composers to emerge from Hans Zimmer’s training ground, Media Ventures/Remote Control Productions. Recorded and mixed in London, the score opens with a powerful, surging rhythmic atmosphere which soon develops into a growing cluster of active figures in the orchestra, building to a dominating sense of perilous adventure. The score is heavily thematic and grounded in the main theme, which recurs frequently to accentuate moments of heroism or to emphasize the wonder of what Time Safari has been able to accomplish. Tenuous string writing presents a growing unease and supports moments of suspense, often emerging into aggressive, pulsating fortissimo as the tense atmosphere explodes into roaring action. The action music in A SOUND OF THUNDER is articulate and propulsive, driving the action forward through simple rhythms and deftly orchestrated sonic textures.
Musically educated at New College, Oxford and with a background in the late ‘70s London music scene, Glennie-Smith was working as a recording engineer when he met Hans Zimmer, then a synth programmer assigned to the same record albums. Both began to write commercial jingles for music production company Air Edel, where they met Stanley Myers, a prolific composer of British film and television since the 1960s; through Myers, both began to supply cues for film scores. By the early 2000s, both Zimmer and Glennie-Smith had relocated to the US and were working amongst the team at Media Ventures Entertainment, the state-of-the-art music and audio post production facility that Zimmer had co-founded in 1989. When Media Ventures was succeeded by Remote Control Productions in the mid-2000s, Glennie-Smith continued to travel to Los Angeles from his home in rural Virginia to work on dozens of hit film scores functioning as composer, musician and conductor for film scores developed by RCP.
Nick’s first screen credit came as co-composer, with Hans Zimmer, for Michael Bay’s THE ROCK. This was followed by a number of independent and TV movies with the fledged composer working solo on such films as HOME ALONE 3, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK, THE LION KING II: SIMBA’S PRIDE, and MAX Q. He wrote the theme and music for the UK/Canadian TV series, THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE, provided a broad orchestral score for the TV miniseries ATTILA, Randall Wallace’s poignant Vietnam war drama WE WERE SOLDIERS and ELLA ENCHANTED. Recent credits as composer include SECRETARIAT, A BELFAST STORY and HEAVEN IS FOR REAL.
A SOUND OF THUNDER was originally set to be released in 2003. Production began on the film in 2002 but was slowed when severe floods in the Czech Republic caused considerable damage to the sets. To make matters worse, the film’s original production company went bankrupt during the postproduction process, which prolonged the release of the film until 2005. The score has never been released in any format and fans of the composer have long been waiting in anticipation for its release. Dragon’s Domain Records is excited to have A SOUND OF THUNDER as its inaugural release. A SOUND OF THUNDER includes liner notes written by author Randall Larson, with the participation of the composer. The music has been mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland.
A SOUND OF THUNDER is a limited edition release of 1000 units. A SOUND OF THUNDER will begin shipping on the week of 03/16/2015 and can be ordered at www.buysoundtrax.com . The first 100 copies ordered trough the buysoundtrax.com website will be autographed by the composer at no extra charge.
01 Main Title 2:39
02 Time Safari Inc. 0:36
03 Security 0:36
04 Ancestor 3:58
05 Rules / Time Jump 2:41
06 Major Problem 3:12
07 Lights Out 1:10
08 Morning News /Eruption 1:51
09 Time Wave 0:33
10 Jumping Alone / Another Time Wave 2:28
11 Access Denied 5:19
12 Cab Ride 3:16
13 Seeking Eckels 1:53
14 Payne / Spota's Market /Apt. 7A 6:28
15 Middleton / Butterfly 3:09
16 Tami's Hard Drive 5:43
17 University / Butterfly Saved 4:56
18 Look at This / End Titles A 2:55
19 End Titles B /End Roller Suite 8:28
Total Time: 62:37
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Fantastic, I've been waiting for this. Wish Nick would get more work.
I'll second that motion.
He's a really good guy to work with.
I hope more of his work gets out there.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Great release!
Ford, may you be kind enough to us more about this new label, Dragon's Domain, please?
For example, will it be devoted exclusively to unreleased stuff?
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Nice. I have the DVD of the film. Good to see more NGS be released.
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I spoke to one of the actors a few years back, asking how the hell Hyams, who had made so many great movies, could be responsible for *this*. They told me that basically the production company only handed over 1/3 of the supposed budget - which sounds very plausible if you search Franchise Pictures on wikipedia - so everything was thrown into chaos, the entire thing was scaled back while shooting, and there was little money for decent FX.
That said, I like NGS's music a lot - the action in this is reminiscent of The Rock in places - so I may pick this one up.
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What a horrible, horrible movie.
I don't think it was too bad.
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Nice to see some praise for NGS. I remember reading FSM in the 90s, where he was seen as an abomination by Kendall, Bond and those guys, just because of The Rock which it was popular to highly dislike. But The Rock did something that 99 % of other film scores doesn't do. It sold CDs. Lots.
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Great release!
Ford, may you be kind enough to us more about this new label, Dragon's Domain, please?
For example, will it be devoted exclusively to unreleased stuff?
It will be devoted to a number of titles that interest us.
The next title is a first ever release on CD of a great score from the early 70's that has deserved to reissued for a very long time by a really wonderful composer whose work we love.
After that if all goes well, a little horror number from the late 80's from another composer who we've worked with in the past that deserved to be remastered and reissued as well.
Shortly thereafter a rather good composer collection we've been working on for the last year that is a career overview that I'm very happy to be releasing.
It's going to bee a more artist driven release looking at composers who we feel deserve the attention that aren't "The Big Names"...
Ford A. Thaxton
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Mar 4, 2015 - 5:40 PM
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Ado
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It is not a very good movie, it was hobbled with a lot of behind the scenes trouble and studio drama, but Peter Hyams is a good director, and delightfully self effacing and down to earth. And he shoots most of his own movies, which is pretty unique. And Hyams always works well with composers, a couple of good Goldsmith scores from Hyams pictures.
Sure, he's a good Hollywood craftsman, but he hasn't done anything even remotely OK since END OF DAYS in 1999 (and although that film boasts Arnold's best acting performance to date, it's by no means a masterpiece).
You are pretty much correct, but we got some good movies from Hyams, like Outland, Star Chamber, Capricorn One, and whatever you feel about comparing it to 2001, 2010 is still a well crafted picture. Somewhat lesser, though still pretty entertaining stuff, Running Scared - the one with Gregory Hines, and Narrow Margin a good throwback picture that is totally predictable but a great cast and good direction make it work. I would watch any of those over most blockbusters nowadays, and there are many big directors that have not made a single movie as good as Outland. And on top of it, like I said, he knows how to let his composers do their craft.
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The biggest question: given its name, is anyone involved with the label a Space: 1999 fan?
This is a question that should be directed to the customer service dept.
I"m sure you'll find the answer here..
:-)
Ford A. Thaxton
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So, Dragon's Domain is a spin-off label of BuySoundtrax? Just looking to clarify.
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