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 Posted:   Jan 22, 2018 - 3:53 AM   
 By:   kindacute   (Member)

English is not my mother tongue so please, bear with me if I make mistakes along the text.

Thanks to the PlantSounds giveaway I've known of this release, though rest assured, my comments are honest and I haven't been asked to review it.

It delighted me so much that I wanted to tell about it. Volume one it's a collection of the first seven films in three cds and, average, every movie has about thirty minutes of music spread along forty tracks. Not only the music has a wonderful charm, full of a wide arrange of emotions (actions, drama, silly endeavours...) in the context of a comedy, but the tracks, being brief as they are, are however full of melody and life. And the plethora of the theme variations are always varied and twisted enough to make them feel as catchy as welcome when they appear.

It gives a sense of that Bud Spencer and Terence Hill or Hong Kong's Lucky Stars kind of comedy that's warm and playful, but what hit the spot was how it has kept me amazed at how Fabricius-Bjerre builds wonderful pieces within only fractions of a minute. So much has been lost in film music terms today (droning, atmospheric notes that go nowhere...) that it has become a little gem in my collection and, hopefully, I will buy the second volume sooner that later.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2018 - 8:36 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

Thanks for the recommendo.
I will check them out on spotify, or youtube, or...somewhere!
Always looking to hear new voices in film music who aren't Remote Controlling it.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2018 - 8:46 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

It's strange for us Norwegians and Danes to read comments on this ICONIC film series as if they're seeing or hearing it for the first time. As if someone said -- in all sincerity -- "hey, I just discovered this thing called STAR WARS! How excellent!".

I'm trying to think of UK and US parallells, but I'm not sufficiently versed in your pop cultures to identify something similar.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2018 - 9:00 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

Hey Thor, I think you answered your own question.

 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2018 - 9:38 AM   
 By:   acathla   (Member)

Do you know if the score is the same for both Danish and Norwegian series? big grin

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2018 - 9:40 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Do you know if the score is the same for both Danish and Norwegian series? big grin

Yes, for the most part. Although the usage varies somewhat. However, the very first Norwegian film had a different composer (Egil Monn-Iversen). It was after that they used Bjerre's music for the Danish films in the Norwegian films as well.

 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2018 - 10:10 AM   
 By:   acathla   (Member)

Aha, thanx for the info. This might actually be interesting listening to.
Such memories! big grin

 
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